MEND is pleased to announce the release of a new and important briefing paper titled, No Race to the Bottom: Avoiding Further Curbs to Freedom of Speech Under Labour. The briefing argues that our democracy, and particularly freedom of speech, is being put at risk by government actors who...
Sir David Amess MP was brutally murdered on Friday 15th October 2021 by a 25-year-old British man who happens to come from a Somali Muslim background. This has generated expectations of a spike in racially and religiously motivated hate crimes targeting British Muslims in retaliation to the...
The UK Government has recently appointed two individuals considered to be right-wing to important cultural institutions. These appointments are another element of the Government’s concerning pursuit of a hard-right agenda. One of the foremost criticisms of these recent appointments is that there...
A recent study by researchers at Stanford University found that GPT-3 – an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system produced by Elon Musk’s OpenAI company – has been shown to generate prejudiced results against Muslims. The AI completes phrases based on what most commonly follows an initial prompt...
Earlier this month, England’s World Cup qualifier victory over Hungary was tarnished by the racist abuse directed towards black English players by some Hungarian fans throughout the game. In the aftermath of such appalling scenes, criticism was levelled at FIFA, the governing body of...
In response to allegations of racial abuse and bullying made by former Yorkshire Cricket County Club (YCCC) player Azeem Rafiq, the club issued a statement as part of their investigation into Rafiq’s claims, admitting that Rafiq was indeed subjected to racial harassment and bullying...
The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, better known as the Culture Secretary, is an important Cabinet position. The holder of the role is responsible for overseeing a range of cultural institutions, such as libraries, sports, and museums, but also particularly importantly for...
After a 20-year occupation in Afghanistan, the last US military flight left Kabul airport on 31 August 2021. The withdrawal marks the end of the contentious ‘mission’ of the global War on Terror that began in Afghanistan in the aftermath of 11 September 2001. The overt focus on Muslims...
Jake Davidson, aged 22, shot dead five people in Plymouth, on 12th August 2021, before turning the gun on himself. Amongst his victims were two women, including his 51-year-old mother, two men and a 3-year-old girl. Having described the murders as a “domestic” incident initially, subsequent...
The Scottish Health Secretary, Humza Yousaf, has launched legal proceedings against a pre-school nursery in Dundee over suspicions of racial discrimination. He alleges the nursery has breached the Equality Act 2010, stating that they refused three children with Muslim-sounding names, yet those with...
Concerns rise as MPs have voted in favour of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill – which many have ruled ‘draconian’. Labour and Liberal Democrats made efforts to amend the current provisions of the Bill – however, this was rejected in the voting lobbies of the House of...
