(First up is Megan Bettinson on Britain's (awful, racist) programmes for "combating extremism" in schools.

Apparently the latest counter-extremism effort began in 2014 with a fake letter claiming a plot by "Muslim extremists" to infiltrate school teaching and governance. (Interestingly, the schools supposedly infiltrated had mostly received unexpectedly good ratings in a recent assessment.)
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School inspection requirements changed from "promoting community cohesion" to "promoting British values". Debates held about the meaning of "British values" but not about the actual change. #NineWorlds

...but not much debate, because of a shared assumption among MPs and Lords that "we all know" what British values are. Shared cultural IDs revolved around:

- The importance of the World Wars where "people died for our values". (Death as sanctification.)
- The Magna Carta as the symbolic "cornerstone of democracy". (It isn't, so any definition can be attached.)
- Non-existent "issues in Birmingham" as proof of the failure of multiculturalism.

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