** 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,...
Local paper, the Blackburn Citizen, reports on a spree of racist graffiti in the town over the weekend affecting a number of Asian-owned businesses in the Shear Brow area. Racist graffiti, vandalism and the letters ‘EDL’ were painted onto vehicles, homes and walls and lampposts along a mile...
BBC News, ITV News and the Daily Mirror all report on the weekend demonstration by the English Defence League in Exeter in which four arrests were made and far right protestors vastly outnumbered by anti-racism campaigners. Over 700 anti-fascist supporters marched through Exeter to demonstrate...
The Independent on Friday covered the results of the survey commissioned by the Committee on Standards in Public Life which found that four in ten voters feel so “alienated” from Britain’s political parties that they will not consider voting for any of them at the next general election....
Hugh Muir in the Guardian reflects on the story in Friday’s paper of a police officer attempting to recruit a Cambridge University student to spy on fellow students. A covert recording shows an officer attempting to entice a student into spying on activist students at the university in...
Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, on his constituency homepage presents a classic liberal defence on the right of Muslim women to wear the burqa. The furore following the escape of terror suspect Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, who absconded while dressed in a burqa, has subsequently led to a number of...
The Independent and BBC News both report on the launch, by Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders, of their vision for a new right-wing bloc in the European Parliament ahead of the election to the European Parliament in 2014. Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Front, and Geert Wilders, leader...
The Independent front page story claims that the US is behind the document declassification delays which are holding up the final report of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. Senior diplomatic sources in the US and Whitehall have indicated that the delay is not the result of foot-dragging by UK...
BBC News reports on a new briefing paper by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission which has found that Black and Asian people are still far more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police in England and Wales. According to the briefing, Black people were 29 times more...
The Blackpool Gazette reports that a man who threw a pig’s head into one of the city’s mosque’s has been banned from going within 50 metres of any mosque. Thomas Ashton, 20, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated threatening behaviour after he threw a pig’s head into a Blackpool mosque...
Powers to stop, search and question people at ports and airports in the UK, the Schedule 7 counter-terrorism powers, are being used by MI5 agents to recruit British Muslims to work and spy for them, the Global Post reports. The article relays the experience of a Muslim male who was stopped and...
