Censorship: UK government program identified a surprising list of books as radical reading material
There is also a reading list of historical texts which produce red flags to RICU. These include Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, as well as works by Thomas Carlyle and Adam Smith. Elsewhere RICU warns that radicalisation could occur from books by authors including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Aldous Huxley and Joseph Conrad. I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes 1984 by George Orwell.
Source: Can you really be radicalised by Great British Railway Journeys? | The Spectator
This came out of a 2019 UK government program called Prevent that had a goal of preventing “extremism”. It did not take the program long to begin marking everything as extremist literature.