** 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 Isle of Wight County Press prints a brief news item about the leader of the English Defence League on the Isle of Wight, Carl Phillip Worrall, 47, who is due to appear for sentencing at Isle of Wight Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to one count of harassment without violence and one...
The Guardian, Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph all draw attention to BBC Newsnight’s revelation that the UK Independence Party has secured control of EU funds to the sum of £1.5 million as a result of forming a new pan-European party of which it is the largest member. Documents seen by...
The Huffington Post picks up on an interview in Newsweek magazine with the ex-founder of the English Defence League, Stephen Lennon, in which he declares his support for UKIP. Lennon told Newsweek of his reasons for supporting UKIP stating, “I’m not at liberty to go into details but all I...
The Times front page today draws attention to the latest developments with the Chilcot Inquiry report. The report, which has been delayed for some time now, has been mooted for publication before or after the next election. While some political leaders have spoken in favour of its immediate...
BBC News reports on a 3 year ban imposed on a woman who tore pages from a copy of the Qur’an at a Middlesbrough football match last December. Julie Phillips, 50, tore the pages from the Qur’an and passed them around to other fans to toss like confetti at the match. When approached by a...
The local paper, Lancashire Telegraph, reports on the sentencing of a man who shouted abuse at Muslims in Blackburn threatening to “burn down their mosque”. Phillip Townley, who was drunk at the time, was being spoken to by police officers on Darwen Street in Blackburn when he started shouting...
The London Evening Standard front page on Friday covered comments by the UK’s most senior female judge and deputy president of the Supreme Court, Baroness Hale, in which she is said to have shown support for ‘Forc[ing] women to take off veils in court’. The ES front page quotes Baroness...
