Front page news in the Guardian on Friday was a story detailing a whistleblower’s account on the failure of an inquiry set up to investigate allegations of abuse committed by members of the Armed Forces in Iraq, the Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT), becoming little more than a whitewash....
The Independent on Friday published news of seven Royal marines being arrested for the suspected murder of an Afghan insurgent. From the paper: “Seven Royal Marines have been arrested on suspicion of murder while serving in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence revealed last night. “They...
The European Commission issued a statement last month on new laws to be adopted which will make it difficult for far-right and specifically racist and xenophobic parties to obtain EU funding. From United Against Racism’s e-news report: “Last month, the European Commission finally backed a...
There has been widespread media coverage this week, on BBC News, and in the Independent, Telegraph, Guardian and Daily Mail as well as local media, of a controversial new sponsorship deal between Newcastle United FC and the loan company, Wonga. Coverage has focussed on the advice from the Muslim...
The Guardian has reported that the BBC Trust is to carry out an impartiality review in light of accusations that the BBC has a ‘liberal bias’. The review will focus largely on religion, immigration, Europe as well as possibly looking at the BBC’s coverage of Islamophobia. The review will be...
The Guardian and Daily Telegraph have both reported on a story which has caused a storm in the French media- a comment and tweet by Jean Francois Cope who is campaigning to lead the centre right French political party, Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), in which he wrote: “There are...
The Guardian yesterday reported that the former foreign secretary Jack Straw and former head of counter-terrorism, Sir Mark Allen have been identified as key players in a court case pursued by Libyan rebel leaders against the Government. The Libyans, Abdel Hakim Belhadj and Sami al-Saadi allege...
Islamophobia Watch draws attention to a protest by far right supporters called ‘Britain First’ outside Downing Street over the weekend calling for ‘justice for victims of Muslim grooming’. From Islamophobia Watch: “[Britain First] demonstrated outside Downing Street before marching down...
The Huffington Post, Independent, Daily Mail and the Sun have all reported on an embarrassing gaffe by football commentator, Gary Lineker, who described French footballer Karim Ait-Fana who was prostrating on the pitch as ‘eating grass’. From the Huffington Post: “Gary Lineker accidentally...
The Independent Voices blog yesterday published an article by the Independent’s religious affairs correspondent, Jerome Taylor, in which he wrote of the absurdity of the sentencing of teenager Azhar Ahmed for a ‘grossly offensive’ message which he posted on Facebook, and the wider debate on...
