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...
Numerous statistics, reports, and anecdotal evidence in the past have documented both the covert and overt racism faced by BAME pupils and staff within UK schools. With the issue of systemic racism coming to significant light in the last few months, it becomes more important than ever that the...
From supporting Hitler and Mussolini, to calling non-White British Olympians “plastic Brits”, to likening migrants to rats and other pests, the Daily Mail has a rich and enduring legacy of stoking xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic sentiment. Spouting such overt prejudice over the decades has...
The perception of Muslims currently fuelled by the UK’s mainstream media is overwhelmingly negative. In particular, the identities of Muslim women are all too often portrayed in binary terms as either a victim of culture or a cultural threat. Depicting a Muslim woman, the media often highlights...
This article was first published on Byline Times. The last weeks have witnessed a growing outcry against the State’s use of algorithms to predict the results of students across the country at the detriment of students predominantly from disadvantaged backgrounds. Students that were predicted A*s...
Earlier this month, two teenagers were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following what was described as a “hit-and-run” attack on a black NHS worker in Bristol, which left him with a broken leg, nose, and cheekbone. The police are treating the attack as racially-aggravated because of...
Parallel to the revelation of Home Secretary Priti Patel’s (now thankfully disrupted) plans to send royal navy warships to block asylum seekers from crossing the Channel, the leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, has spent the last few weeks tweeting videos and posts expressing outrage at a...
In 2017, Imam Is’Haaq Jasat’s family sat down in a park on a beautiful sunny day to enjoy a picnic celebrating Eid as part of a local community event. At the time, a keen photographer, with permission of the family, took a photo of them to publicise the event and highlight how the local...
In a recent interview, Craig Whittaker, the Conservative MP for Calder Valley in West Yorkshire, stated that there are “sections of our community that are just not taking the pandemic seriously”. When pressed as to whether he was referring to Muslim communities, Whittaker responded: “Of...
Experts have warned that new neo-Nazi terror groups will continue to emerge as online communities, which further serves to compound existing concerns surrounding the lack of adequate legislation to deal with online far-right activity and social media offences. Last month, Feuerkrieg...
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has requested the Royal Mint design British coins and notes in a way to honour some of Britain’s BAME figures. The importance of Mr Sunak’s move to try and make our legal tender more inclusive should not be underestimated, and is of particular significance given the...
