What do the Tories consider extreme?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. Today who gets to say what's extreme and what isn't? |
| 0:15.0 | Apparently Michael Gove. |
| 0:18.0 | What's wrong with the government's new definition of extremism. is supported by better help. Here's a question. If you had an extra hour in your day, |
| 0:38.0 | what would you do with it? Watch TV? Read a book? Meet up with a friend, maybe a little nap. A lot of us spend our lives wishing |
| 0:48.6 | we had more time, but for what? Perhaps to best answer that, you need to work out what's truly important to you, then make that a priority. |
| 1:00.0 | Therapy can help you work out what's most important to you. It isn't just for those who've unfortunately |
| 1:06.1 | experienced trauma in their lives. Therapy can be helpful for learning positive coping skills |
| 1:11.7 | and for setting boundaries. It can empower you to be the best |
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| 1:27.0 | Our listeners get 10% off their first month at better help.com slash TIF. That's Better H-E-L-P-com slash T-I-F. Right, we come to the statement I call the sector estate, Michael Gov. |
| 1:55.0 | It all sounded so reasonable. |
| 1:58.0 | The United Kingdom is a success story, a multinational, multi-ethnic, multi-faith democracy stronger because of our diversity. |
| 2:05.4 | But our democracy and our values of inclusivity and tolerance are under challenge. |
| 2:10.8 | On Thursday, Community Secretary Michael Gove stood up to announce a new definition of extremism, |
| 2:18.0 | to decide who the government could and couldn't engage with. |
| 2:22.0 | The proposed definition will hold that extremism is the promotion or advancement of an ideology |
| 2:26.5 | based on violence, hatred or intolerance, that aims to negate or destroy the fundamental |
| 2:31.0 | rights and freedoms of others, or undermine overturn or replace the UK's city. or for others to achieve these results. Gove said it was about getting the balance right and it had been very precisely drafted, |
| 2:48.0 | so as not to apply to most mainstream political courts. |
| 2:51.0 | Our definition will not affect gender critical campaigners. political campaigns, those with |
| 2:54.8 | those with conservative religious beliefs, trans activists, |
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