** 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,...
The Daily Mirror reports on the implosion of the British National Party’s electoral fortunes as it faces the prospect of being denied airtime for party political broadcasts during the upcoming election. According to rules applied by the BBC, a political party is required to field a minimum of 89...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on a police investigation into a leaflet distributed in the city of Exeter which contains inflammatory information about a proposed Muslim community centre. Police are dealing with the incident as a possible hate crime and are trying to identify the individual/s...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on a planned English Defence League demonstration in the town tomorrow when 25 men will appear before Calderdale magistrates’ court on a range of sex crime offences. The EDL have previously posted news reports from the Halifax Courier about the arrest of the 25...
The Bolton News relates a political row that appears to have been sparked in the constituency of Bolton West after the local Labour MP, Julie Hilling, took part in a BBC North West programme on Sunday discussing the rise in anti-Semitism over the last year and was understood to have blamed UKIP for...
The Times (£) reports on the comments of Lord Woolf, a former Chief Justice of England and Wales, on causing gratuitous offence to religious minorities and observing the rule of law in respect of the right to freedom of religion. Speaking at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Lord Woolf...
BBC News reports on the arrest of a man on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after he distributed election campaign leaflets in Stoke referring to little girls being “gang-raped by Muslims”. Craig Pond who is contesting the parliamentary seat of Stoke on Trent North as an independent...
The Derbyshire Times reports on a police appeal for witnesses in a suspected hate crime after vandals sprayed the word “Islam” and a Star of David on the grounds of the Chesterfield Panthers Rugby Club. The graffiti was discovered in a playing area at the club and police are investigating a...
Melanie Phillips in her column in The Times (£) newspaper today returns to a theme from a couple of years ago when she lambasted media coverage of the Rochdale sex grooming trials for not daring to mention that the Asian Pakistanis on trial for horrendous crimes against young white girls were...
The Government’s Counter terrorism and Security Bill returns to the Lords today for its Third Reading ahead of its return to the Commons tomorrow for consideration of the Lords amendments. There have been a number of amendments tabled to the Bill in the upper chamber with the Government conceding...
