The local paper, Cambridge News, reports on the trial of a former marine and ex-UKIP candidate in the South Cambridgeshire District Council elections last May, who is on trial for sending “grossly offensive” communications to a mosque in Cambridge and posting anti-Muslim slurs on his Facebook...
The Halifax Courier reports on the focus on faith based hate crime through the month of January by West Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Mark Burns-Williamson. Since November 2014, the police force and PCC’s office have been focusing on the different...
The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail all cover Mondays’ discussion in the House of Lords over the delayed publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report with Lord Dykes asking whether the Government had plans to issue the report before ‘purdah’ sets in ahead of the next general election....
The Guardian, The Independent, Daily Mail, BBC News and ITV News all report on Ofcom’s announcement that the Green Party may not qualify as a “major party” in the general election but the UK Independence Party (UKIP) may achieve this status. The regulator is undertaking a consultation...
There is, justifiably, considerable coverage and commentary in the newspapers of the brutal murder of 12 people at the office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris yesterday. The Muslim identity of the three men who shot dead cartoonists at the publication and its editor has...
The Daily Mail draws attention to Leicester East MP, Keith Vaz’s question to the Attorney General in Parliament yesterday on whether the Government will meet with social media companies to encourage them to play a more active role in removing Islamophobic and racist material from social media...
The Independent front page yesterday reports on the anti-Muslim abuse proliferating on social media platforms and the inadequate responses of social media companies to complaints about Facebook and Twitter users posting insulting and abusive messages online. Oliver Wright reports on some of the...
The Scottish paper, Herald Scotland, reports on a call by human rights advocate Niall McCluskey to the newly elected Scottish Labour leader, Jim Murphy, to end his association with the Henry Jackson Society. Herald Scotland reports that McCluskey, has asked Murphy to “consider his...
The Essex Chronicle reports on the rallying of far right activists from Britain First in support of their leader, Paul Golding, as he prepares to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates Court on Monday. Golding is due to appear on charges of harassment and of “wearing uniform signifying...
The Independent and Daily Telegraph report on the Home Office consultation on the provision contained in the Counter terrorism and Security Bill, currently before Parliament, to introduce a statutory requirement on “named organisations” to “help prevent people from being drawn into...
