The Huffington Post, Daily Mail and the Independent all report on the former leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who was seen last week in the Netherlands calling out to a rally organised by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident (Pegida) to...
The Home Office published its annual report on hate crime in England and Wales on Tuesday drawing on data derived from police recorded crime (for the period April 2014 – March 2015) and the Crime Survey for England and Wales (using combined surveys for the period covering 2012/13 to 2014/15)....
There is considerable coverage in the newspapers today (Daily Mail, The Guardian, Mirror, BBC News, ITV News, Sky News and Politics Home) about the Government’s announcement that police forces in England and Wales will begin recording Islamophobia as a separate category of crime. The...
The Daily Mail and Mirror report on another incident of a Muslim primary school pupil being referred under the Government’s controversial Channel programme for expressing views during a school residential trip which were noted as a cause for concern. Hazel Pulley, headteacher of Parkfield...
The Express and Star reports that a UKIP candidate who claimed on Facebook that Islam was an “evil cult” and that European integration was a form of “genocide” has been banned from standing for the party in the Black Country. Steve Latham stood for Parliament in West Bromwich East in the...
The Guardian publishes findings from a new report by Demos, Rising to the Top, which highlights some of the barriers faced by Muslims in aspiring to a Russell Group university education and to senior management roles in the labour market. The report notes that British Muslims show the lowest level...
There has been some coverage across news and broadcasting of figures obtained by the Press Association on the number of referrals to the Channel programme between June and August this year. Referrals to Channel are part of the Government’s multi-agency approach for “protecting...
The Burton Mail reports that far right group Britain First could be greeted with tea and cakes at Burton Railway Station as they head to a protest on Saturday 17 October against plans for a new mosque in the city. The idea of serving the protestors refreshments is intended to reduce tensions and...
Peter Oborne in the Middle East Eye argues that the Conservative Party were wrong to cancel an event organised by Muslim charities at their party conference this year after the Sunday Telegraph published an article accusing some of the charities involved of having links to terrorist...
