A veteran British teacher has been referred to the UK government’s counter-terrorism investigations team after showing students video clips of President Donald Trump during a class on U.S. politics.
Critics say the case exposes a growing culture of ideological censorship inside Britain’s education system.
The incident took place at Henley College in Oxfordshire, where the longtime educator, qualified since the mid-1990s, presented students with footage from Trump’s inauguration and campaign to illustrate the outcome of the U.S. election.
Days later, two students complained that the lesson material was “biased.”
Students claimed they were “emotionally disturbed,” and one alleged the videos of Trump caused nightmares.
College officials escalated the matter to the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO).
LADO prioritized a referral to the government’s counter-terrorism unit, Prevent, and warned that the teacher’s political views “could be perceived as radical.”
Officials warned that the teacher’s actions could potentially amount to hate-related conduct, terrorism, or “radicalisation.”
Speaking to The Telegraph, the teacher described the experience as “completely jarring.
“It’s dystopian, like something from a George Orwell novel,” he explained.
“It was just terrifying; just mind-boggling,” he said.
“We were discussing the US election, Trump had just won, and I showed a couple of videos from the Trump campaign.
“Next thing, I was accused of bias.
“One of the students said they were emotionally disturbed and claimed to have had nightmares.”
Identifying himself as a “mainstream Republican,” he rejected the extremist label outright.
“I am not an extremist,” he said, accusing the college of “complete Left-wing bias,” and adding:
“They don’t tolerate anything about Donald Trump.”
In correspondence cited in the dispute, the college asserted that he had “shown your students videos of Donald Trump, his campaign, propaganda, and other videos which are unrelated to what is being taught.”
The LADO report went further, warning:
“There is concern that this behaviour could cause harm to a child, there could be a criminal offence from the views which could constitute a hate crime, and it’s possible that his promoting of views could be radicalisation.”
The dispute concluded with the teacher resigning and accepting a £2,000 ($2,695) settlement, effectively forced out of his role for presenting political material directly tied to the course subject matter.
Critics Say Safeguarding System Now Targets Dissent
Free speech advocates say the case highlights how safeguarding frameworks are increasingly used to police political opinions, particularly those seen as Right-leaning.
They warn that the incident reflects a broader shift inside schools toward ideological filtering, even as classrooms simultaneously promote aggressively revisionist or activist-driven curricula under “decolonizing” initiatives.
The case also coincides with government-backed programs instructing students to scrutinize and “identify extremist content and misinformation,” programs critics argue are being used to condition children to reject viewpoints that challenge establishment narratives.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage cautioned that speech boundaries are rapidly narrowing.
Farage warns that the socialist government is making people fear being labeled an “extremist” to “set a narrative for a future generation that is fundamentally undemocratic.”
He is calling globalist Prime Minister Keir Starmer the “biggest threat to free speech” in British history.
The Free Speech Union has likewise warned that safeguarding processes are being applied to “unfashionable opinions,” creating what critics describe as a climate of fear among educators.
For the teacher at the center of the case, the message was unmistakable as political discussion involving Trump, even in a class about American politics, now risks triggering counter-terror scrutiny.
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