Hit shows like Yes Minister and The Thick Of It and even Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys were bizarrely described as "encouraging far-right sympathies".
Meanwhile, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare were placed on a list of "key texts" for white supremacists.
A report by the programme's Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) said that extremists posted "reading lists" on online chat boards.
The document shared a list of these "important texts" under pictures of Nigel Farage and 1930s British Union of Fascists leader Oswald Mosley.
Works from BBC's 1990s political thriller House of Cards to classic film The Dambusters to John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy made the rankings.
House of Cards screenwriter Andrew Davies said that he had thought the list was "a joke" and emphasised that his show was a satire of the Right.
Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts told the Daily Mail: "This is truly extraordinary. This is the reading list of anyone who wants a civilised, liberal, cultured education.
"It includes some of the greatest works in the Western canon and in some cases – such as Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent – powerful critiques of terrorism. Burke, Huxley, Orwell and Tolkien were all anti-totalitarian writers."
A "double standard" to Islamist terror threats compared to far-right issues.
His report said that Prevent had highlighted material that "fall well short of the extremism threshold altogether".
It added that the programme had prioritised right-wing terrorism over its Islamist counterpart.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman slammed the scheme for having "defined right-wing extremism too broadly" in a way that included the "respectable Right and the centre-Right".
The taxpayer-funded document included references to The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent, 1984 by George Orwell and the poems of GK Chesterton. It also referenced films including The Bridge On The River Kwai, The Great Escape and Zulu.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 20, 2023 10:51 PM |
"Oh, but it's The Sun. Why are you linking a right-wing rag here, Boris?!? " - Somebody who can't defend this so resorts to childish insults.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 20, 2023 10:37 PM |
Actually the Daily Mail covered it better giving more examples of literature and movies that would make you suspect as a Nazi klansman, but you do see the problem with that.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 20, 2023 10:51 PM |
