Hello and welcome to the spike podcast. I'm Fraser Myers and I'm delighted to be joined down the line this week by two brilliant spiked columnists.

We've got Ella Wielen, hello?

Hi. And Rakeve Essan.

Hello. Coming up on today's show we'll be discussing Islamist terror, the Welsh

gender reforms and Sadiq Khan's war on the car. So there's been several stories this week that have really highlighted Britain's

seeming inability to get to grips with Islamism.

Firstly, we had the William Shawcross review into the Prevent program,

highlighting some of its pretty egregious failures.

Secondly, we've had the welcome return of Salmon Rushdie. He

appeared for his first interview and first photographs since he was horrifically

stabbed last year.

And finally, the less than welcome return,

I think we can say, of Shimim

who's been plastered all across the UK media

appearing in the BBC and in the Times.

Let's talk about the prevent issue first.

Rakeep, do you want to outline some of the failings highlighted by this

Shorecross Review?

So the Shore Cross review central point is that the

governments prevent program which has the primary purpose of safeguarding people from either becoming terrorists or

supporting terrorism.

Shorecross has concluded that is the

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