An article in local Stoke paper, The Sentinel, draws attention to a 2011 report by the Institute for Race Relations on racism in Stoke-on-Trent. The report, ‘The New Geographies of Racism’, is based on casework analysis of racism in the city which the IRR has documented as well as interviews...
The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and the EU Observer have both covered a report published by a consortium of NGOs which highlights the EU’s trade relations with illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. ‘Trading Away Peace: How Europe Helps Sustain Israeli Settlements’,...
BBC News, the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and The Sun have all reported on the 12 month community order sentences given to a woman and two men after they subjected an Asian man in Manchester to a violent racist attack. The woman admitted kicking and stamping on the head of the man saying “You’re a...
The Daily Mail reports on an investigation launched by British Transport Police after a woman was filmed hurling racial abuse at a group of black passengers on a tube train. A video of the racist attack has been uploaded to Youtube. From the Daily Mail: “Police are hunting a woman caught on...
The Guardian has published an article by Lucy Snow, editor of the Leeds university student newspaper, Leeds Student, in which she defends her decision to publish an interview with the leader of the far-right British National Party and MEP for North West England, Nick Griffin, in the paper. The NUS...
BBC News reports of the concerns expressed by members of the House of Lords over the delayed publication of the report by Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. The report may now be delayed until 2013, ten years after the invasion. From the BBC: “Peers have expressed concerns about the length of...
BBC News reports that local residents and leaders of Millfield in Sunderland have criticised external groups who have been engaging in protests and stirring up trouble over a mosque in the area which recently received building approval by Sunderland City Council. The criticism comes after protests...
Amidst a flurry of articles by interested parties on the prospect of Lord Justice Leveson introducing statutory regulation of the press and a Lords debate last week on media standards and media regulation, The Guardian today reports that the Inquiry’s report has been delayed until the end of...
Douglas Murray on Spectator blogs writes about the recent parliamentary debate introduced by Baroness Cox on her Arbitration and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill,’ or the bill on ‘shari’ah courts’ as its most commonly understood. Murray argues that the government ‘[has] kick[ed] the...
The website, Vice, has published an article by Simon Childs on a recent BNP protest outside BBC Broadcasting House erroneously conflating the Jimmy Savile scandal with ‘fighting grooming gangs’. Childs comments on “how certain organisations with long-held grudges against the BBC have hijacked...
