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Last week, the UK Supreme Court ruled by a unanimous decision that Shamima Begum, who left the country as a teenager to join ISIS, was not allowed to return and fight for her citizenship case. In 2019, then home secretary Sajid Javid had stripped Begum, 19 at the time, of her citizenship on national security grounds, and she wished to return to challenge the decision. The Supreme Court decision does not simply speak to Begum’s case, however. Rather, it says a great deal more about our country and how we do or do not envisage citizenship in the 21st century. Very little of it is particularly...

In his inauguration speech, US President Joe Biden discussed the "rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat”. It was an announcement long overdue in the US. The election of Mr Trump to the White House in 2016 showed how much the former US president appealed to white supremacists in the US. The white supremacist movement, however, predates Mr Trump and his presidency. Contemporary far-right extremism has been mobilising in the US for more than a decade and in quite plain sight. If one takes a wider view, white supremacy has been...