** 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 Counter-terrorism and Security Bill (CTSB) has been presented against the backdrop of the terrorist threat posed by ISIL, reports of British citizens travelling abroad to engage in ‘terror-related activity’; and the raising of the domestic terror threat in response to perceived threats from...
Local paper, the Cambridge News, reports on the 12 week suspended sentence handed down to a former marine and ex-UKIP member who sent “grossly offensive” emails to a Cambridge mosque. Ian Couch, 54, was arrested after the mosque secretary Abdul Muquith, who used the details in the...
Bradford’s local paper, the Telegraph and Argus, has published details of a man sought by police for anti-Islamic slurs uttered on a bus in the city. West Yorkshire Police have released a CCTV image of the man who is being sought for a public order offence after he boarded the 576 Halifax to...
The Bristol Post features an interview with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset, Sue Mountstevens, as police forces ready for the publication of stop and search data in constabulary regions on the crime mapping website, www.police.uk. In July 2013, HM Inspectorate of...
The Times reports on a letter sent by the head of the charities chief executives body, ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations), to the Cabinet Secretary, seeking clarity on the re-appointment of William Shawcross as chair of the Charity Commission nine months before...
The Times front page today returns to the campaign by the president-elect of the British Veterinarian Association, John Blackwell, to push for a ban on non-stunned slaughter of meat in the UK (see also Daily Telegraph). Blackwell in an interview with The Times last March, expressed his desire to...
The Evening Telegraph picks up on the passing of the 100,000 signatures threshold by a petition calling for support for the British Veterinarian Association’s campaign to introduce a full ban on non-stunned slaughter of meat in the UK. The BVA president elect – John Blackwell – in a...
Parliament is this afternoon discussing the long-overdue report by the Chilcot Inquiry into the UK’s role in the US-led invasion of Iraq after a group of MPs submitted a request to the Commons backbench committee to table a debate on the issue a couple of weeks ago. David Davis MP, along with...
BBC News reports on yet another embarrassment for UKIP after an election candidate, Donald Grewar for Newport East, was alleged to have posted comments supporting the English Defence League on his Facebook page. Grewar is alleged to have responded to an EDL post stating “no surrender to...
