The Times front page today returns to the campaign by the president-elect of the British Veterinarian Association, John Blackwell, to push for a ban on non-stunned slaughter of meat in the UK (see also Daily Telegraph). Blackwell in an interview with The Times last March, expressed his desire to...
Parliament is this afternoon discussing the long-overdue report by the Chilcot Inquiry into the UK’s role in the US-led invasion of Iraq after a group of MPs submitted a request to the Commons backbench committee to table a debate on the issue a couple of weeks ago. David Davis MP, along with...
The Evening Telegraph picks up on the passing of the 100,000 signatures threshold by a petition calling for support for the British Veterinarian Association’s campaign to introduce a full ban on non-stunned slaughter of meat in the UK. The BVA president elect – John Blackwell – in a...
The Guardian and BBC News cover today’s report published by the Electoral Commission on countering voter fraud in Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities. Last year in a report on Electoral Fraud in the UK, the Commission stated this a problem “in areas which are largely or predominately...
BBC News reports on yet another embarrassment for UKIP after an election candidate, Donald Grewar for Newport East, was alleged to have posted comments supporting the English Defence League on his Facebook page. Grewar is alleged to have responded to an EDL post stating “no surrender to...
Former Director of Public Prosecutions and Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Ken MacDonald of River Glaven QC, has a guest column in The Times today criticising the Government’s insistence, in the Counter-terrorism and Security Bill, on requiring higher education institutions “to play a formal...
The Independent on Saturday featured a front page story on the rise in Islamophobic incidents in schools following the murders at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris. The paper reports that a number of incidents have been logged in which Muslim pupils have been verbally or physically abused as...
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi pens a guest column for the Observer this week in which she lambasts the Coalition’s record onengaging with British Muslims since coming to power in 2010. Reflecting on the consequences of the Communities Secretary writing a letter to British imams urging them to...
Manchester Evening News reports on the suspension of a council worker from his post at Manchester City Council after a member of the public alerted the newspaper to an anti-Muslim message posted by the worker on his Facebook page. Dave Balderstone, 46, responded to a message on the BNP’s page...
The Guardian and Independent front pages today cover the announcement that the report of the Chilcot Inquiry, into Britain’s ill-fated invasion of Iraq in 2003, will not be published until after the general election. Also covered in The Daily Telegraph, The Sun (£), Daily Mirror and the...
