The Sunday Times reveals a 15 per cent rise in police recorded hate crime since 2012 citing from statistics released under a Freedom of Information request. The newspapers relates the figures disclosed under FOI which show that there were “17,605 racially and religiously aggravated harassment...
The Times front page today declares “Muslims send death threat to teachers” in its coverage on the proceedings of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) annual conference in Liverpool. Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, headteacher of Anderton Park primary school, one of the Birmingham...
A UKIP candidate standing for Basildon Council and running as an MP in Lewisham East is to launch a group that opposes “Islamic cultural extremism”,the Echo reports. Anne Marie Waters, is co-founder of the group Voice – Victims of Islamic Cultural Extremism alongside David Britain,...
The Mansfield and Ashfield Chad reports that a UKIP candidate running in the Mansfield District Council election may have links to the far-right British National Party. Sidney James Walker, who is standing in the Newlands ward, was listed as a member of the party when a list of its members was...
The Yorkshire Evening Post reports on yet another example of a UKIP candidate behaving badly as scrutiny of the party’s candidates in the local and national elections continues. Craig Sweaton, who is standing in the Middleton ward for the Leeds City Council election has been accused of posting...
There has been some quite animated fist-thumping at the interview by the Muslim News with the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, in which the opposition leader spoke of the party’s manifesto pledge to get serious about Islamophobia (and anti-Semitism). The Labour manifesto, and BAME manifesto, refers to...
The Guardian reports that whilst more men than women turn out to vote in UK elections, female representation in parliament is set to increase significantly after May 7 with the number of female candidates standing for the respective parties rising. Estimates show that 9.1 million women did not vote...
Peter Oborne in Middle East Eye today asks “why are the Conservatives ignoring the Muslim vote?”. Drawing on analysis showing the significance of the Muslim vote in this and future general elections (given the young demographic profile of the Muslim community and its projected growth), Oborne...
The website, What Do They Know, which holds information on FOI requests submitted by individuals and the responses they receive relates quite an interesting development in respect of an FOI that questioned the Government about the Extremism Analysis Unit referred to in the Home Secretary’s speech...
