** 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, Kent Messenger, reports on the UKIP candidate for Ramsgate, Martyn Heale, who it transpires was a former member of the National Front. Heale who will be contesting a seat on Kent County Council on Thursday said of his former choice of political party:“I have said on many...
There was further coverage in the weekend papers over UKIP candidates contesting seats in the local elections this Thursday. After news last week on UKIP suspending a candidate for allegedly posting anti-Semitic comments and its refusal to censor a candidate for making anti-Muslim remarks, comes...
Local paper, the Lancashire Evening Post, reports on the resurfacing of leaflets by BNP member, Anthony Bamber, blaming Muslims for the heroin trade. Bamber, who is standing as a BNP candidate in the local elections next month, was prosecuted for distributing the leaflets in three Lancashire towns...
The Guardian, Daily Mail and Daily Express report on UKIP’s suspension of an election candidate after allegations surfaced of anti-semitic comments posted on websites. Anne-Marie Crampton was due to contest a seat in the East Sussex local elections as a UKIP candidate but has been suspended...
The BBC, Guardian and Independent all cover the latest development in the press industry’s reaction to the Leveson report – the publication of an plan for press regulation by the Associated Newspapers, Express Newspapers, Trinity Mirror, News international and Telegraph Media Group. The...
Ian Cobain, Guardian journalist and author of Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture, in a report in the paper today covers the investigations launched by Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service against MI5 and MI6 on allegations of complicity in torture. Investigations into the...
The Mirror newspaper covers the changed fortunes of the British National Party in local government as it prepares for the local elections next month. From its heyday in the early noughties when the BNP held eight seats on Burnley council, its largest number, the party will attempt to cling on to...
Local paper, Bucks Free Press, reports on the launch of a police investigation after a racist post was added to the Facebook page of the Royal British Legion High Wycombe branch. Vice chairman of the branch, Kevin Taylor, reported the matter to the police last week after the image was ‘shared’...
A second woman charged with spraying racist graffiti on the Shah Jahan mosque in Woking, and on other buildings in the vicinity, has been sentenced today reports the Surrey Advertiser. Georgina Gontar, 20, pleaded guilty to a breach of an Asbo, four offences of racially aggravated criminal damage...
BBC News covers the debate in the House of Lords yesterday prompted by a question posed by Lord Dykes on the delays to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report. Lord Dykes tabled the question: “To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will hold discussions with the administrators of...
