** 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,...
In an interview with The Times (£) on Friday, Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and the politician in charge of the party’s 2015 election campaign, argues that an increasing lack of public trust in national institutions is deterring people from voting with some turning to...
There is some coverage in the media on UKIP’s increase in party membership and its expected growth over the next year, ahead of the European Parliament elections in May. Party leader, Nigel Farage, in a New Year message in today’s Daily Telegraph writes about his expectation of...
The Digital Journal reports on a plea to supporters by far right organisation, Britain First, to determine whether the movement should enter the European elections in May. On its website appeal to supporters, former BNP Councillor, leader of the English National Resistance and Chairman of...
Local paper, The Star, reports on the admission by South Yorkshire constabulary of its inability to record the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes because its crime management system “does not facilitate the recording of anti-Muslim hate crime separately to other forms of religious hate...
The Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph both report on the lifting of an anonymity order in the trial of two defendants charged with perverting the course of justice. The respective dailies headlined the articles ‘Daily Mail lifts veil of secrecy judge threw over trial of two Muslim lawyers...
The Independent, Guardian and ITV News all report on the long awaited declassification of key documents to the Iraq Inquiry paving the way for the inquiry’s impasse over the publication of its report to be lifted. The Inquiry was established in 2009 to investigate Britain’s...
Such reactions are particularly conspicuous among the youth, those aged 18-24, who were equally split between boredom (34%) and anger (34%). The Guardian editorial today appraises the long term impact on voter turnout and civic engagement of ennui among younger members of the population stating,...
Earlier this summer, the MPS revealed the year on increase in Islamophobic crimes in the months following Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder as: May – 139% June – 197% July – 122% Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe confirmed that anti-Muslim hate...
Laurie Penny in a column in yesterday’s Guardian critiqued the disingenuous use of feminism to serve a ‘small-minded’ and ‘Islamophobic’ agenda in the recent furore over gender segregation and public institutions. Writing of how the language of feminism is
The Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail both reported on an episode at a London store of retailer Marks and Spencer where a Muslim member of staff passed a customer on to another checkout to avoid handling alcohol. An M&S spokesman said: “We recognise
