** 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 Sunderland Echo reports on the charges brought against a member of the English Defence League for criminal damage to a mosque in the city following a rally by the far right group last month. Connor McIntosh, 19, was arrested after being captured on CCTV lashing out at the Jami mosque in Chester...
UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, uses his column in the Independent today to address the Times front page article yesterday on his alleged misuse of EU funds. With a post on the UKIP website naming journalists at The Times whom, it claims, “have family or personal connections to the Conservative...
The Daily Mail, The Guardian, BBC News, ITV News and local paper, the Birmingham Mail, publish further coverage on the alleged school plot ‘Trojan Horse’ to ‘takeover’ and ‘Islamicise’ schools in Birmingham. The Department of Education has confirmed that several schools are under...
The Mail on Sunday last week carried forth with its coverage on halal meat in the UK with a double page spread titled ‘Horror at Halal Slaughterhouse’ featuring a video secretly filmed inside an abattoir that produces halal meat. Perhaps an attempt to engage in equal opportunities...
In a comment piece in the Guardian newspaper today Gavin Titley, author of The Crises of multiculturalism: Racism in a Neo-liberal Age, reflects on the use of ‘pork’ in European culture wars waged by the far right. Noting the remarks of French National Front leader, Marine Le Pen, following...
After yesterday’s story in the Independent about the Chilcot report’s likely deferral until 2015, the Guardian, Times and Independent all report on a spat between the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, and former PM, Tony Blair, over the reasons for the ongoing publication delay. At a...
The Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Telegraph, Independent, BBC News and Sky News all report on the allegations faced by UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, over the misuse of his EU general expenditure allowance following the front page story in The Times of an interview with a former party official...
The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, BBC News and local paper, Carmarthen Journal, all report on the injuries sustained by a former army trainee and suspected ‘far right sympathiser’ following an explosion at his parents’ home last Thursday. Jordan Smith, 19, suffered from...
The Independent today reports on the prospect of the Chilcot Inquiry report into the UK’s role in the invasion of Iraq being deferred until 2015 as the impasse on declassifying key documents threatens to overrun the current parliamentary term. The newspaper, which previously reported on the...
BBC News and Local Berkshire report on five arrests made by Thames Valley Police in connection with offences committed during an ‘apparent’ protest in West Berkshire on Friday 28 February. Disorder broke out when a group of 15-20 people gathered in Thatcham, some of whom had previously...
