CEP Senior Director Ian Acheson quoted: Ian Acheson, a former prison governor who also served in the Home Office as the director of community safety, warned that a failure to tackle this issue represented a “national security threat” and could lead...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson quoted: "Back in 2016 the former prison governor Ian Acheson produced an official review of the threat of Islamist extremism in prisons, probation and youth justice, and the capability of the National Offender...

Eye on Extremism: April 2, 2025

New research shows that Hamas has quietly dropped thousands of deaths from its Gaza war casualty figures. Salo Aizenberg, from the US-based non-profit organisation Honest Reporting, said that Hamas’s March 2025 casualty update had removed thousands...

Eye on Extremism: April 1, 2025

The Civil Guard arrested three people on Tuesday in an international anti-terrorism operation carried out in Barcelona, ​​which also resulted in arrests in the United Kingdom and France. Officers raided the home on Valencia Street in the Sagrada...

"Experts believe the harsh tone from Tehran is primarily a threat to deter Americans and Israelis from attacking their own nuclear facilities. "However, if the Iranians actually attack US bases, this would lead to a massive escalation and a major...

Highlighting CEP-New Zealand Digital Violent Extremism Cooperation

Since 2021, the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has been working with the Digital Violent Extremism (DVE) team at the New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) to report and remove harmful online content related to the March 15, 2019...

Extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler says, while the perpetrator of the German Christmas market attack had been uniquely radicalised, they have been becoming more common since COVID-19.

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "All is not well inside the last Hermit kingdom in public service. I’m referring to His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS), a closed and secretive fiefdom that has acquired a reputation for security...

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "At the end of last week, the Ministry of Justice — so often a stranger to public scrutiny — released a glossy, self-congratulatory 20-minute video celebrating the construction and delivery of HMP Millsike, a...

Eye on Extremism: March 31, 2025

The Hamas militant group said Saturday it has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators Egypt and Qatar, but Israel said it has made a counter-proposal in “full coordination” with the third mediator, the United States. Egypt early in the...