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The white supremacist student sentenced to read Austen and Dickens fits a grim pattern

Young, angry men are falling down a rabbit hole of online radicalisation

The isolation of Covid will only make this worse.

  • Gaby Hinsliff
  • Th Guardian

Read a book, as the old saying goes, and it will set you free.

But even the power of literature surely has its limits, and this week a judge in Leicester tested them.

Faced with a Nazi sympathiser convicted of downloading bomb-making instructions, and white supremacist and fascist material from the internet, Judge Spencer issued a suspended two-year sentence and…

“Think about Hardy. Think about Trollope,” he added, helpfully.

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, the judge thought, might be a good place to start.

It might have…

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