MEND is pleased to announce the release of a new and important briefing paper titled, No Race to the Bottom: Avoiding Further Curbs to Freedom of Speech Under Labour. The briefing argues that our democracy, and particularly freedom of speech, is being put at risk by government actors who...
The Sunday Times has been widely condemned for running a column by Rod Liddle over the weekend in which he suggests extremists should blow themselves up in London’s Tower Hamlets, away “from where the rest of us live.” The piece has been widely criticised for inciting violence; with...
Anjem Choudary’s release from Belmarsh on Friday 20th October and the resulting media storm tells us a lot about the problems of current counter-extremism approaches by the current UK Government. The contrast between the way that ideologues such as Choudary are treated with that of far-right...
Since September 2016, Winston Churchill, Jane Austen and JMW Turner have all featured on new notes from the Bank of England, and now a new £50 note is being discussed with the face unknown at present. In a climate where intersectionality is increasingly important, the new face of the note should...
The Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation (IRTL) has recommended that the police should review the impact of conducting large-scale investigation on communities. The recommendation comes as part of Max Hill QC’s, terror legislation watchdog since 1st March 2017, final report as part his...
MEND is deeply concerned by the significant increase of religious and racially motivated hate crime as revealed in the latest Home Office figures for 2017-18. The year-on-year rise of religious hate crime is a clear indication of the problem of religious prejudice prevalent in our society. The...
The British Army has launched an investigation into a video that surfaced which seemingly showed young British soldiers or cadets cheering far-right agitator Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known by his pseudonym Tommy Robinson. Robinson, the ex-leader of the English Defence League (EDL) and current...
Last week, Tony Blair attacked several Muslim organisations, accusing them of promoting “extremist ideas”, orchestrating a “propaganda barrage” towards counter-terror strategies and attempting to present the Government as a “hostile force”. Putting aside the hypocrisy of Mr....
On the 24th of September, MEND hosted its fringe event in collaboration with Hacked Off at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. The event, entitled: ‘Media Manipulation of Minorities and Other Press Abuses’, dissected the impact of the media portrayal of Muslims, and other minorities, on...
“Police were called at 00:35hrs on Wednesday 19th September 2018 to reports of a car which struck a number of pedestrians on Oxgate Lane in Brent. Local Borough Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and two people were taken to hospital for treatment; two of those injured are males...
MEND is appalled to hear that another mosque has been attacked only weeks after a mosque in Birmingham had its windows smashed by ball-bearings and a mosque in Leeds was firebombed. The most recent attack occurred outside the Al-Majlis Al-Hussaini Islamic Centre in Cricklewood, North-West London,...
