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The British Youth Council launched a report yesterday urging a lowering in the voting age to 16. The report is the product of an inquiry, led by the Youth Select Committee. Members of the British Youth Council (BYC) identified the issue of lowering the voting age as a priority at the annual BYC...
Professor Roy Greenslade in the Guardian’s Media blog draws attention to the emperor’s new clothes in the press industry’s answer to Lord Leveson’s recommendations for a beefed up regulator. In a blog exploring the similarities between the former Press Complaints Commission (PCC) and the...
The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Sky News all report on the Prime Minister David Cameron’s stated desire “to hear that title ‘Prime Minister’ followed by a British Asian name.” The PM was speaking during the GG2 Leadership Awards ceremony, which shortlists...
The Star and Sheffield Telegraph report on the English Defence League’s plans to hold yet another protest in Rotherham and Leeds this weekend in the wake of the report into the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal. The EDL announced a ‘split demo’ starting in Leeds and moving on to Rotherham on...
Scottish daily paper, the Daily Record, carries an interview with Shirin Akhter, the Muslim woman who had her face veil ripped from her face in an attack last year by a man who told her “Why are you wearing this? This is not the Qur’an and is not allowed in this country.” Emiliano Sanchez,...
The Daily Star carries news of a London bus driver who has been suspended from his job after his far right racist sympathies were uncovered by anti-racism campaigners. Wes Lay, who works for transport company Abellio and drove a bus route in North West London has been “suspended pending a formal...
The Sunday Telegraph yesterday disclosed that the Charities Commission is ‘scrutinising 86 British charities which it believes are at risk of extremism’ noting that 37 of these are ‘working to help victims of the Syria crisis.’ The Sunday Telegraph adds the story to its front cover,...
The Guardian today reports on the latest development in the rendition case of Abdel Hakim Belhadj against the British Government and former public servants, Jack Straw MP and Sir Mark Allen, former foreign secretary and former head of counter-intelligence at MI6 respectively. Belhadj, who has been...
The Kent Messenger and City AM pick up on a story from Political Scrapbook disclosing that Royal Mail have refused to distribute a leaflet by Britain First candidate for the by election seat of Rochester and Strood, Jayda Fransen, because it does not comply with the law. The leaflet, which shows a...
