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intelligence and security committee said the agency had been forced to progress other work – almost certainly relating to Islamist terrorism – more slowly and had been unable to expand other activities as it had hoped.
The domestic spy agency gradually took on responsibility for tackling extreme rightwing terrorism from 2018, after a review in the aftermath of the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016. It rapidly became a significant area of work.
According to the committee report, in July 2020 a fifth of MI5’s investigations in Britain were devoted to extreme rightwing terrorism plus a lesser focus on leftwing, anarchist and single-issue terrorism.
Although the committee was careful to redact from the report which areas of MI5’s work were affected, it is likely to be in areas relating to Islamist terrorism, which shares many of the resources, staffing and techniques used to thwart extreme rightwing attacks.

Terror Expert Claims Extremists Exploit Luxury Markets to Generate Funds for Atrocities  (Nicky Harley, The National)
From art and antiquities to cryptocurrency or crowdfunding, one of France’s leading security experts has written a book that calls for action against the financing tools exploited by terrorists. Senator Nathalie Goulet has spent the past decade working on the terror threat in France, gaining insight into the extent of terrorist infiltration of lucrative markets. “You have art, arms and drugs but you also have things that are not often known, like counterfeiting, crowdfunding and cryptocurrency,” she told The National. “Terrorism financing is something everyone needs to be aware of, money laundering especially. It opens the door to financing terrorism. It is a reality and we need to work on it. Ms Goulet spent years studying the Muslim Brotherhood and its European links and has used her experience to write a book dedicated to the funding mechanisms used by terrorists. The Alphabet of Terrorism Financing is an A-Z analyzing the various strategies used by extremists. “It’s a dictionary of the tools used by terrorists to finance terrorism,” she said. “It is from the work I have done over the years on terrorism. I wanted to write a book on the subject. I chose to shape it as a dictionary so it is clear and academic. “It is a major subject for the international community. What’s important for me is for governments and heads of state to understand the links between money laundering and the