As the Leveson Inquiry enters its concluding stage, recommendations for press reform, there is coverage in the newspapers today of the testimonies of, amongst others, Lord Hunt, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission; Lord Black, chairman of Press Standards Board of Finance (PressBof),...
The Daily Telegraph yesterday reported that Denis MacShane, former Labour Minister, will not be facing any action over allegations of abusing Commons expenses. The article – three brief paragraphs (pictured left), appeared in the print edition of yesterday’s paper but it seems that the...
British journalist and commentator, Mehdi Hasan has written a comment piece in today’s Guardian on the Islamophobic and personal abuse that he and many other Muslim journalists and bloggers are subjected to online. He argues that such abuse hinders Muslims from entering journalism or engaging in...
The Guardian picks up on an interview published in the Muslim News this month with the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, on the Olympics and any threat of terrorism. Anderson tells the Muslim News that he will be “watching like a hawk” to ensure that arrests are...
The Church of England Newspaper reports on a parliamentary meeting organised by Christian Aid highlighting the poverty-inducing impact of the illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and calling upon the British Government to ban such produce. The CoE newspaper notes the...
The Daily Mail today reports on the trial of a woman charged with racially aggravated assault who allegedly pushed a pregnant Muslim woman to the floor and hurled racist verbal abuse at her and her family, calling her a “suicide bomber” and “terrorist,” after an altercation at a supermarket...
The Birmingham Mail and BBC News both report that a man who pulled the niqab off a Muslim woman’s head in a West Midlands shopping centre has been handed a suspended prison sentence, and ordered to complete 250 hours of unpaid community service with a 21-day activity examining diversity and...
The Daily Mail yesterday reported on comments made by the Children’s Minister, Tim Loughton, to the Home Affairs select committee inquiry into ‘Localised child grooming’ headlining the article ‘Don’t let PC brigade bury ethnic links to sex gangs, warns children’s minister’. Loughton,...
A Bristol paper reports that 2,000 local people have signed a petition calling for a march planned by the English Defence League later this month to be banned by the Home Secretary, Theresa May. The action is similar to that taken last year when the Home Secretary acceded to a request by the...
Further to the Observer’s misrepresentation of the views of the outgoing archbishop of Canterbury in last week’s Sunday paper, the newspaper this week has published the following in its ‘For the Record’ section: “Our coverage last week of Faith in the Public Square, a forthcoming book by...
