The Guardian reports on the speech given by the chair of the Press Complaints Commission, Lord David Hunt, to the Society of Editors annual conference in Belfast in which he appeals against the introduction of statutory press regulation. Lord Hunt argued that the entire press should not be...
The Leicester Mercury and Asian Image newspapers reports on the successful business venture by a Muslim medical student at Leicester University challenging popular misconceptions about Islam and Muslim through T-shirts bearing slogans. The Leicester Mercury interviews Umair, the man behind the...
The Guardian carries an article on a report published by the Joint Committee on Human Rights regarding the government’s controversial Justice and Security Bill. The bill contains proposals to extend ‘closed material procedures’ (CMP), otherwise known as secret trials, to civil court...
BBC News and local media (see here and here) have reported on protests held in Norwich over the weekend by the EDL and its opponents, marching under the banner, ‘We Are Norwich’. Four people were arrested, three of whom were charged, whilst one man was cautioned for a public order offence. From...
The Independent Voices blog has published an article by French journalist, Marie Dhumieres, reflecting on the way that Islamophobia has become entrenched in the French psyche and the trials that France faces in challenging negative stereotypes of Muslims and Islam. Dhumieres points to a recent...
The Guardian today publishes a letter signed by forty-two MPs and two peers backing some form of statutory regulation of the press. The signatories claim that “current proposal put forward by the newspaper industry would lack independence” and “risks being an unstable model destined to...
Sadhbh Walshe on the Guardian’s Comment is Free blog covers the double standards on display in the Home Secretary’s decision to extradite five British Muslims to the US whilst blocking that of Gary MacKinnon – despite the similarities between his case and that of one of the Muslim men...
The websites Civil Society Finance and Third Sector Online both cover a meeting of charity regulators in Parliament discussing the impact of terrorism legislation on charity operations. Haroun Atallah, finance director of Islamic Relief (IR), told regulators that terrorism legislation introduced...
A recent edition of the BBC’s Daily Politics show featured a debate on the upcoming Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections, with contributions from Lord Michael Bichard, Caroline Flint MP, and Policing Minister, Damian Green. Amongst the issues discussed were the role of the PCCs;...
The Sun reports that two men, one of whom is the son of Andy Goram, a former goalkeeper for Rangers FC, have been sentenced for a drunken racist attack on an Asian woman. Lewis Goram admitted acting in a racially aggravated manner in an incident which took place in May this year. Goram called the...
