The Scotsman newspaper reports that the Scottish Defence League is to appeal the decision by Edinburgh Council to ban its demonstration planned for Saturday 26th May. From the Scotsman: “Far-right extremists are planning a new demonstration in the Capital and have vowed to pursue city leaders...
The Huffington Post reports another Twitter blunder by English Defence League leader, Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) after he racially abused a Muslim girl who claims to be 15 years old on the social networking site. From the Huffington Post: “The leader of the far-right English Defence...
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Sussex have published a paper examining the legislative prohibitions on face-veiling in European countries. ‘Reasons to Ban? The Anti-Burqa Movement in Western Europe’, documents what is happening in the various European...
The former shadow Home Secretary, David Davis has written a Comment piece which appears on page 32 of today’s Guardian, in which he argues that the core argument for the introduction of a system of secret trials- that some cases rest on intelligence given to the UK by its allies (namely the US)...
For those aspiring for a career in journalism, ITV is offering an excellent opportunity on its ITV News Traineeship scheme for 2012-2013: “This year our award winning broadcast journalism scheme is running alongside our exciting new ITV Graduate programme. Between them they will attract the very...
Following recent revelations of the US military college in Virginia teaching anti-Islamic material, the Guardian reported over the weekend of US based campaigners having expressed concerns that such teachings are far more widespread than people would be led to believe. Campaigners are also...
The website Blottr reports that the former ‘company director’ of the English Defence League and administrator of the EDL Jewish Division Facebook page, Roberta Moore, has praised the Norwegian terrorist, Anders Behring Breivik on the Jewish Division’s official Facebook page. From Blottr:...
The Guardian last week reported that the conviction of nine men involved in a gang which groomed girls for sex has led to a surge in anti-Muslim abuse, and that the British Muslim community is bracing itself for more “Islamophobic attacks on individual Muslims and mosques across the UK”. From...
The Foreign Office have replied to our letter to the Foreign Secretary on the issue of Iran, the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and the British Government’s stance in the negotiations on Iran’s alleged nuclear weapons programme. The FCO’s reply can be read here.
The New Statesman cover story this week is the highly charged issue of halal meat. With the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and Independent all recently publishing on the issue, Mehdi Hasan in this week’s NS “questions how many opponents of halal know what producing it involves, and wonders whether...
