BBC News reported last week on a comment by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, that there is “some justification” to allegations that the force is “institutionally racist” because disproportionate stops against BME people persist without explanation. At...
The Independent reports on four MPs who have protested against the failure of US President Barack Obama to release the last UK resident of Guantanamo Bay, Shaker Aamer, despite his being imprisoned for 13 years without charge. Conservatives MPs Andrew Mitchell and David Davis, and Labour’s Jeremy...
South Wales Argus reports that a Torfaen politician who used the derogatory term “Muzzy” in an outburst about Muslims on Facebook will not face any disciplinary action by the council regulator despite the comment being deemed “offensive” in its official ruling. The Independent councillor,...
Far-right group, the English Defence League (EDL) are planning to protest outside the UK’s largest water park, Waterworld, for allegedly hosting “Muslim-only days”. Waterworld in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire was to be hired out for two hours on Sunday 9 August for a women-only event,...
The website London 24 reports on a story involving a Muslim teacher who claims that he was only able to secure a job interview at Langdon Academy, a school in east London after he pretended to be a “white British applicant”. Hamid Mahmood claims that after being unsuccessful with an application...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the court appearance of a man charged with a racially aggravated public order offence following the discovery of a bag containing pig’s heads outside Solihull Community Hub last April. Rumours that the building was being used as an ‘unauthorised’ mosque were in...
The Daily Mirror and Guardian pick up on a story published in the Manchester Evening News concerning a police officer with Greater Manchester Police who has been sacked for posting “racist and offensive” comments about Muslims on Facebook. The MEN reports on the public hearing of a panel...
Manchester Evening News and ITV News report on the launch of police investigation after three fires were set off in the early hours of yesterday morning (Sunday). Including one behind a mosque. The fires started off with an outbuilding on Derwent Road in Rochdale which spread to an adjacent garden....
The polling agency YouGov published poll findings last week about intolerance in western Europe and the minority groups most affected by prejudice, though from media coverage you would not likely be aware of it. The poll has received scant coverage in the mainstream press despite being published...
After running a public poll last month asking whether Britain should follow the Netherlands and ban the burqa in government buildings, schools, hospitals and on public transport, the Daily Express is back with another poll singling out Muslims this time on the subject of halal meat. Following the...
