The 2012 British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS) has been published. The survey aims to monitor and interpret British “attitudes towards social, economic, political and moral issues.” This year’s report is the 29th in the series and reveals interesting trends regarding attitudes towards...
The Scotsman reports on the banning by Edinburgh City Council of a proposed Scottish Defence League march on 29th September. The report states that the ban was invoked due to the alleged recruitment of ‘football casuals,’ who are claimed to have Nazi associations, and the posting of a message...
The Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph both recently reported on the comments by the presenter of BBC’s Radio 4’s Feedback programme, Roger Bolton, on the corporation’s treatment of religion and the “growing view among the audience that Christians in particular were being treated unfairly in...
A local paper has reported that six EDL supporters who were recently convicted for religiously aggravated disorder have been sentenced with a combined fine plus costs of almost £6,000. The incident to which the sentencing is related took place at Middlesbrough train station last December. From the...
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner has reported on a protest by an extreme far right group which took place outside a court during the trial of a teenager, Azhar Ahmed. Ahmed has been found guilty of posting offensive messages on Facebook following the deaths of six British soldiers. From the local...
The Sunderland Echo reports on an arson attack on cars owned by two Muslims who fear the act was racially motivated. From the local paper: “His car a burnt-out shell, student Usman Chaudhry fears he is the target of racist thugs. “The 28-year-old’s Nissan Micra was one of two cars destroyed...
The Home Office has released data on hate crimes and racist incidents recorded by the police in England and Wales for 2011/12. A Hate crime is defined as “any criminal offence committed against a person or property that is motivated by hostility towards someone based on their disability, race,...
BBC News, the Guardian, the Independent and the Telegraph have all reported on the leader of the Respect Party, Salma Yaqoob’s decision to resign as leader and quit the party. Her resignation comes after the Respect Party’s only MP, George Galloway, who won a seat in a by-election for Bradford...
There was an article in the Guardian yesterday regarding the nature of the Justice and Security Bill and the proposals included within it to extend ‘closed material procedures’, often referred to as secret trials, to civil courts. It is argued that the proposals included in the bill are...
The Guardian today carries an article by assistant editor of the New Statesman, Daniel Trilling, drawing on his new book ‘Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of the Far Right’. Addressing popular myths that animate the far right’s ideas and politics, Trilling denotes the exploitation of poor...
