** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** Rights group Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND) have launched a new report The Great Debunk: Challenging Islamophobic Conspiracy Theories, which examines how false narratives about Muslims once limited to the far-right fringes have entered mainstream political,...
ITV News, the Daily Mirror and Birmingham Mail all report on the weekend’s protest in Dudley by far right group, Britain First. Just last week, the Chief Constable of West Midlands police, Chris Sims, briefed council staff of the costs to the force of policing repeat protest by far right groups...
The Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Darlington and Stockton Times report on an employment tribunal hearing concerning a Muslim constable who is claiming racial harassment by colleagues at Cleveland police force. Nadeem Saddique, who has worked for the force since 2001, later working as a VIP Close...
West Midlands police force is yet again beset with the problem of policing demonstrations by far right groups, the Birmingham Mail reports. The impact of the costs involved in policing static demonstrations have been voiced by a number of regions which have been affected by far right protests in...
BBC News returns to the inquiry by the National College of Teaching and Learning into the alleged remarks of a BNP affiliated teacher who is alleged to have made anti-Muslim remarks in the classroom. Reverend Robert West, who is also standing for the BNP in the parliamentary seat of Boston and...
The Daily Mirror front page today reports on criticisms about the Conservative party’s failure to appeal to ethnic minority voters by former PM, John Major. The paper reports on a leaked recording of Lord Major’s speech to the Tory Reform Group’s annual dinner last month in which he chided...
You can read our letters to the Independent Press Standards Organisation on The Times front page story yesterday, which falsely claimed ‘Muslims’ were behind death threats sent to school teachers in Birmingham, and a Daily Mail story today which repeats similar unsubstantiated allegations, here...
The Times front page today declares “Muslims send death threat to teachers” in its coverage on the proceedings of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) annual conference in Liverpool. Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, headteacher of Anderton Park primary school, one of the Birmingham...
The Sunday Times reveals a 15 per cent rise in police recorded hate crime since 2012 citing from statistics released under a Freedom of Information request. The newspapers relates the figures disclosed under FOI which show that there were “17,605 racially and religiously aggravated harassment...
Peter Oborne in Middle East Eye today asks “why are the Conservatives ignoring the Muslim vote?”. Drawing on analysis showing the significance of the Muslim vote in this and future general elections (given the young demographic profile of the Muslim community and its projected growth), Oborne...
The Guardian reports that whilst more men than women turn out to vote in UK elections, female representation in parliament is set to increase significantly after May 7 with the number of female candidates standing for the respective parties rising. Estimates show that 9.1 million women did not vote...
