The Star reports that a Muslim student who claimed a National Express coach driver racially abused her and her friends last month is “unhappy” with the way the company have concluded their investigation into the alleged incident. Leeds university student Yusra Ahmed and three friends claimed...
The National Audit Office (NAO) has warned that Whitehall need to invest more time and effort into improving diversity in the civil service as progress has “plateaued more recently,” BBC News reports. The public spending regulator released a report last week detailing the figures...
BBC News, the Lancashire Telegraph and the Buxton Advertiser all report on a suspected hate crime incident at the High Wood Cemetery in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire where a number of plots were desecrated at the weekend. Around 10 plots in the cemetery were desecrated with incidents largely focused on...
Rod Liddle on the Spectator’s Coffee House blogs bites the ‘Muslim fury’ bait trailed in the Daily Express and Daily Mail last week with this observation about the “gaffes” witnessed by Muslim shoppers in certain branches of Tesco and Morrisons: “It’s enough to arouse fury, even if...
The Belfast Live reports on an alleged incident of racial abuse and assault on a Muslim woman as she walked along a road in Portadown, Northern Ireland on Saturday afternoon. The 40 year old victim was walking along the road when approached by a motorist in a white car. A female passenger...
Melanie Phillips in her column in The Times today argues “It’s pure myth that Islam is ‘a religion of peace” because, she asserts, “Islam has a history of violent conquest.” Phillips criticises the PM, David Cameron, saying he “regrettably regressed to claiming once again that this...
A West London branch of Morrisons is the second supermarket to make news after “a blunder” in which it advertised frozen pork products to customers beside promotional stickers for Ramadan, the London Evening Standard reports. This incident comes days after a Tesco store in Liverpool Street came...
A Guardian analysis of government figures released in April this year has revealed an alarming increase in the proportion of young offenders from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds. The figures, issued by the Youth Justice Board (YJB), show that from 2014-15, 40% of prisoners aged under...
Douglas Murray has a comment piece published in the Daily Express yesterday adding righteous indignation to that already seen in the Daily Mail about the PM’s speech last week about British Muslims blaming anyone and everyone for radicalisation but themselves. Murray introduces the issue of the...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports on an investigation launched by South Yorkshire police after staff a member at Laisterdyke Business and Enterprise College allegedly shared a “tasteless and offensive” post from the far right group, Britain First, on her Facebook page. The post, which...
