** 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,...
With Lord Justice Leveson’s final report on press regulation now published, Prime Minister David Cameron is due to make a statement on the report at 15.00 today. You can watch him make his statement live on www.parliamentlive.tv, as well as on BBC iPlayer. There is also live coverage on the...
Ahead of the vote on enhanced observer status for Palestine at the UN General assembly today, the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, laid before the House of Commons the Government’s intention on voting on the issue. In a statement to the House yesterday, the Foreign Secretary set out “to inform...
Ahead of the publication of the final report of the Leveson Inquiry this afternoon, the Guardian yesterday reported on a YouGov poll commissioned by the Media Standards Trust into public opinion on media regulation. The poll, conducted between the 21st and 23rd November with a sample of 3620 adults...
The Independent and local newspaper, The Argus, have both reported on the arrest of a 16 year old boy for throwing ham at Broadfield mosque in Crawley, West Sussex. The Independent states that worshippers witnessed the scene as they left the mosque at around 4pm last Tuesday. The police arrested...
Independent columnist, Owen Jones, in his latest column for the paper referred to his appearance on BBC Question Time last week, alongside Yvette Cooper, Iain Duncan-Smith and Charles Kennedy, saying the debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict was an example of the “nuance, rather than...
The media monitoring site Spinwatch draws attention to a rather interesting recent example of BBC ineptitude which seems not to have been picked by the mainstream press. Hilary Aked on Spinwatch writes of the BBC’s frequently inviting Jonathan Sacerdoti onto the channel during Israel’s most...
The Independent yesterday reported on a new guide launched over the weekend by the Christian Muslim Forum (CMF), dealing with interfaith marriages between members of the two faith groups. The article states that the document, ‘When two faiths meet’ (available here), “emphasises the need for...
The Guardian reports on the Deputy PM, Nick Clegg’s attempt to convince his Conservative coalition partners to vote ‘yes’ to Palestinian statehood at the UN later this week. The Palestinian Authority is expected to renew its bid for statehood presenting its motion to the UN on November 29th....
The Sun reports on reaction to the comments by Crossbench peer, Baroness Shreela Flather, who weighed in on the controversy surrounding the Conservative Party’s newly appointed campaign chief, Lynton Crosby, saying “I don’t condone swearing, but Lynton is right to say it is pointless for the...
Ahead of the publication of the Leveson Inquiry’s final report this Thursday, the papers over the weekend have been consumed with coverage on press regulation with a number of comment pieces and editorials fulminating at the prospect of statutory regulation. The Mail on Saturday reported on the...
