The Home Office has released its statistical bulletin on the use of arrests, stops and searches under the Terrorism Act in 2010/11, including figures which show that there has been a 91% fall in stops and searches carried out under section 44 of the Terrorism Act since last year. Here are...
In an interview with Martin Bentham of the Evening Standard, Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of University College London, once more criticises the government’s Prevent strategy, the mistaken causal relationship assumed to exist between universities and the propensity to commit...
The Government today published its response to the annual report 2010-2011 of The Intelligence and Security Committee. The ISC in its report questioned again the metrics for measuring the effectiveness of the CONTEST counter-terrorism strategy and in particular, the work of RICU (Research,...
The BBC, the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph have all reported on the comments of prominent scientist and atheist, Richard Dawkins who has attacked Muslim faith schools for teaching ‘alien rubbish’. In an interview with the Times Educational Supplement, Dawkins said that Muslim faith...
Former UKIP candidate, Abhijit Pandya wrote an article for the Daily Mail yesterday in which he presents his reasons for agreeing with Richard Dawkins that multiculturalism is a barrier to integration. Pandya writes: “We must now begin the necessary measures of assimilation to fight the...
The BBC and Kilmarnock Standard report on the sentencing of the teenager found guilty of viciously assaulting an elderly Muslim man on his way to Fajr prayers at Ayrshire Central Mosque in July this year. From BBC News: “A 16-year-old who carried out a racist attack on a pensioner outside a...
The Guardian and BBC today report on another Libyan national who is to take legal action against the UK government accusing ministers and security agencies of ‘rendering’ him to Libyan officials. Sami al-Saadi, a leading member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, alleges UK complicity in...
The Northampton Chronicle last week reported on a new report by the Radicalism and New Media Research Group at the University of Northampton on the English Defence League, “The EDL: Britain’s “New Far Right” Social Movement”. Michael Ellis MP, Member of Parliament for Northampton North...
The BBC reports on the sentencing to one year in prison of two of the three people who attacked the Nasir mosque in Hartlepool last November. The third person was given a 12 week suspended sentence. From the BBC News website: “Two men who carried out a graffiti attack on a Teesside...
The Guardian reports on the journalists, editors and media professionals who have been invited to address seminars organized to assist the deliberations of the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press. Among those invited is Richard Peppiatt, a former journalist for...
