BBC News, the Daily Mail and Manchester Evening News all report on the passing of sentence on a man who was charged with racially aggravated criminal damage after sticking “Beware halal is barbaric and funds terrorism” stickers on chickens stocked on a supermarket shelf. Liam Edwards,...
The Guardian reports on the UN human rights committee’s review of the UK’s compliance with the international covenant on civil and political rights (ICCPR) and its recommendations that Britain amend key counter-terrorism powers and revise laws on “snooping” by security services. The body of...
The Guardian reports on the growing fear among British Muslim charities in the UK who feel they are being unfairly targeted by the government’s strategy to combat extremism. The author discloses the example of the Muslim Charities Forum (MCF), an umbrella organisation for 10 UK based...
Allison Pearson in her column in the Daily Telegraph yesterday celebrated David Cameron’s speech in Birmingham on Monday with Pearson declaring she liked it so much she could have written it. There can be little doubting that. Her column is peppered with the same ignorant condescension and...
A cross-party review of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act was announced by the Government last week, 15 years after Labour first introduced it. The Guardian reports that it is likely to be seen as an attempt to restrict the public from accessing government documents noting that the decision came...
Lord Falconer, the Shadow Lord Chancellor and the shadow secretary of the state for justice, has warned in a comment piece in the Huffington Post UK that “the future of our country is being decided by an increasingly narrow section of society” due to changes to electoral registration and...
Leading up to the 2015 General Election Andrew Gilligan wrote a number of articles in The Telegraph which made reference to mend and some of its staff. mend believes his articles were politically motivated containing a series of factually incorrect statements and totally misleading insinuations...
The Times (£) today follows up its indulgence of Ayaan Hirsi Ali with a second guest column praising David Cameron’s “principled leadership” and his counter extremism strategy. A previous column by Ali was published in the paper days before the general election with the author throwing her...
An Independent councillor representing Fareham West ward on Fareham Borough Council has shared Facebook posts from the far-right group Britain First, Portsmouth News reports. Nick Gregory shared two of Britain First’s posts from its Facebook page, one calling for the reintroduction of the...
The Star reports on 10 arrests that were made at the English Defence League protest in Rotherham on Saturday. More than 150 members of 20 far-right groups protested against Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s attempts to ban far-right marches in the city and impose restrictions on their...
