The Guardian publishes an opinion piece by columnist Richard Norton-Taylor in which he revisits the subject of the effects of the Iraq invasion on the radicalisation of young British Muslims and what, if anything, the long-awaited Chilcot inquiry report will make of it. The Inquiry report, which is...
The Evening Telegraph reports on the sentencing of a teenager for a string of offences including racially aggravated harassment causing fear, alarm or distress. Ryan Simpson, 19, appeared at Dundee Sheriff Court on a range of charges. He was accused of stealing a tractor owned by Dundee City...
The Guardian reports on warning by Maina Kiai, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, who has said the Government’s Prevent programme risks “promoting extremism, rather than countering it.” Kiai who has been on a three day...
The Watford Observer reports on the court appearance of a man accused of racially abusing two Asian Border Force officials at Heathrow Airport. Timothy Wynne-Jones, 53, appeared before Ealing Magistrates Court faced with two counts of racially aggravated harassment towards Border Force officers...
The Times (£) today returns to the topic of ‘prison radicalisation’, weeks after an article which claimed “Most jail imams teach anti-western values” (published on 7 February). The paper seems quite taken with a pending Ministry of Justice report written by former Home Office...
In yesterday’s front page article, The Times claimed that a Ministry of Justice report had uncovered evidence of “chaplains at several jails encourag[ing] prisoners to raise funds for Islamic charities with links to international terrorism.” We questioned the veracity of the...
The Hansard Society has published its 13th Audit on Political Engagement (APE) report examining attitudes to political engagement. The survey is compiled via a face to face questionnaire by pollsters Ipsos MORI and draws comparisons with previous years’ APEs in order to understand changes in, for...
The London Evening Standard reports that a man who pleaded guilty to nine charges of racially aggravated criminal damage in relation to graffiti found at the Noor Ul Islam centre in Leyton has received a suspended sentence. Tom Whelan admitted scrawling offensive terms like “deport Islam”,...
The Northampton News reports on the sentencing of a man who racially abused three women, assaulted two of them and damaged a mobile phone belonging to one of the victims. Cyril Walton, aged 47, was accused of two counts of assault, a racially aggravated public order offence and criminal damage in...
The Times yesterday in its coverage of the Channel 4 commissioned poll by ICM returned to a familiar theme with an article on page 2 of the paper headlined, “Two thirds of Muslims would not give police terror tip-offs“. The opening sentence observes, “Only one in three British...
