A female shop owner in Sunderland was physically assaulted and her two young daughters beaten by thugs who raided her shop to steal two boxes of crisps. From the Daily Mail: “Racist thugs spat on a four-year-old girl and brutally beat her mother in a sickening attack.
Peter Oborne in his column in the Daily Telegraph today reflects on Prime Minister David Cameron’s three-day visit to the USA. The article succinctly captures the betrayal of core values that define both countries since the onset of the US-led “war on terror” leading to their diminished...
As the Prime Minister, David Cameron, discusses the UK/US “endgame” for Afghanistan during his three day visit to Washington DC, a new survey shows that support for the Afghan war is significantly waning in the UK. The poll was commissioned by ITV News and carried out by ComRes who questioned...
Local paper, Luton on Sunday, covered the opening last week of the ‘Discover Islam Public Information Centre’. The Centre, based in Luton, is “a community project which aims to provide a neutral environment for people to ask questions about Islam or Muslims that they would feel...
Robert Fisk in his column in Saturday’s Independent dwells on the incitement to violence he has lived with as Middle East correspondent for the paper. The latest such threat came from an Australian pro-Israeli activist who in an email to the Independent wrote: “Robert Fisk is the most...
The BBC has reported that Foreign Secretary William Hague is facing legal action over the alleged use of UK intelligence to assist US drone strikes in Pakistan by the British son of a man who was killed in such a strike. From the BBC: “Human rights lawyers are to sue Foreign Secretary William...
The BBC, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Express all report on the death of an imam in Belgium following an arson attack on a mosque near the Belgian capital, Brussels. One person has been arrested and no other people are being sought in connection with the attack....
The Guardian today reports on Prime Minister David Cameron’s three-day visit to Washington where he will be meeting US President Barack Obama to discuss, amongst other things, the presence of British and American forces in the Afghanistan and their withdrawal from ‘lead combat role’. From the...
The Press Complaints Commission, the voluntary press self-regulatory body, announced on Friday that it is to close after 21 years and a transitional body set up to carry on its work until a permanent replacement body is established upon the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry. From the Guardian:...
The report by Matthew Goodwin and Professor Jocelyn Evans, ‘From voting to violence? Far right extremism in Britain,’ is available to read here. The report was launched at an event hosted by Chatham House yesterday. The report points to attitudes among the memberships of the BNP and UK...
