The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, appears to have got himself into a bit of a pickle with his column in the Daily Telegraph yesterday. Johnson wrote yesterday about how the Muslim Council of Britain had pounced on him for suggesting jihadists were ‘w******’ in an interview in late January....
The Manchester Evening News and Daily Mail report on a man who has been charged with causing racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage after he allegedly posted stickers on food produce and equipment which state “Beware halal is barbaric and funds terrorism” at a Sainsbury’s...
There has been considerable coverage in the weekend papers on the protest by the UK branch of the German far right movement, Pegida, and a counter protest by the anti-racism alliance Newcastle Unites, on Saturday 28 February. The Daily Mirror on Saturday published an interview with Newcastle United...
As UKIP’s Spring conference in Margate concluded yesterday, the Mail on Sunday today reports on an investigation launched by the party into six candidates who have allegedly shared or posted offensive material from far right organisations like the British National Party on social media pages....
The Jewish Chronicle front page on Friday covered the paper’s campaign to seek support from politicians for the public funding of synagogue security. The newspaper launched its campaign last week and reports that in the past week it wrote to all 650 MPs to encourage their backing for the...
The Leicester Mercury, Daily Mail and the Independent last week covered yet another allegation of misconduct levelled at a UKIP party official after Facebook posts on the page of Richard Crouch, branch secretary of the Bosworth and South Leicestershire branch were uncovered. Posts found on the...
The Independent and the Daily Telegraph follow the poll commissioned by the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and conducted by ComRes on the opinions of British Muslims on topics as far ranging as loyalty to the UK and the effectiveness of the Muslim Council of Britain on representing Muslims’...
The Waltham Forest Guardian reports on an appeal by police for witnesses to a hate crime incident in which a Muslim woman wearing a burqa was racially abused by a passenger aboard a bus in east London. The Muslim woman and her young child were waiting at the bus stop outside Walthamstow Central...
Parliament debated the issue of religious slaughter again yesterday as the threshold passed by the petition supporting a ban on non-stunned slaughter reached over 100,000 signatures thereby securing a Westminster Hall debate. A number of MPs spoke in the debate introduced by the MP for Kettering,...
A number of local publications in the north of England, the Halifax Courier, Yorkshire Post, Telegraph and Argus, as well as the Daily Express and Sunday Times, cover the report by the Henry Jackson Society on Community Policing and Preventing Extremism: Lessons from Bradford. The report, drawing...
