** 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 Guardian today reports that the Foreign Office has lost its appeal against the decision by the Information Commissioner to disclose extracts of a telephone conversation that took place between then Prime Minister Tony Blair and former US President George Bush, just days before the invasion of...
The Yorkshire Post today reports that bids to form faith schools within the government’s free school initiative has led to local opposition with some humanist campaigners arguing that the establishment of such schools “could add to religious and racial segregation in the region’s cities”....
BBC News reports that the government is planning draft legislation which will introduce a statutory register of lobbyists ‘before 2015’. Prime Minister, David Cameron, spoke last year of lobbying being ‘the next big scandal’. Ministers in his own Cabinet, Dr Liam Fox, the former...
The Press Association and BBC News have both reported on the arrest of far-right protesters in Rochdale following the conviction of nine men last week for involvement in the sexual exploitation of girls. From the PA: “Three people were arrested as far right-groups were accused by police of using...
The Huffington Post reports another Twitter blunder by English Defence League leader, Stephen Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) after he racially abused a Muslim girl who claims to be 15 years old on the social networking site. From the Huffington Post: “The leader of the far-right English Defence...
The Scotsman newspaper reports that the Scottish Defence League is to appeal the decision by Edinburgh Council to ban its demonstration planned for Saturday 26th May. From the Scotsman: “Far-right extremists are planning a new demonstration in the Capital and have vowed to pursue city leaders...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports that a man who attacked a Muslim couple with a scaffold pole and threatened to kill them has been handed an ‘indeterminate’ prison sentence and sent to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital for treatment of ‘delusional disorder’. From the local paper: “A man...
For those aspiring for a career in journalism, ITV is offering an excellent opportunity on its ITV News Traineeship scheme for 2012-2013: “This year our award winning broadcast journalism scheme is running alongside our exciting new ITV Graduate programme. Between them they will attract the very...
The former shadow Home Secretary, David Davis has written a Comment piece which appears on page 32 of today’s Guardian, in which he argues that the core argument for the introduction of a system of secret trials- that some cases rest on intelligence given to the UK by its allies (namely the US)...
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Sussex have published a paper examining the legislative prohibitions on face-veiling in European countries. ‘Reasons to Ban? The Anti-Burqa Movement in Western Europe’, documents what is happening in the various European...
