BBC News, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent report on the Queen’s speech delivered earlier this week with a notable mention in the Daily Telegraph of a Bill on the Protection of Charities and a proposal for new terrorism offences in the Serious Crime Bill. According to the Queen’s...
The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, BBC News and the Belfast Telegraph all report on Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson’s public apology for the offence caused to Muslims by his defence of Pastor James McConnell who denounced Islam as ‘heathen’ and ‘satanic’....
The Financial Times and the Guardian report on the Islamophobic alliance formed in the European Parliament with the Conservative Party aligned European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group admitting Danish and Finnish parties whose members bear criminal convictions for inciting ethnic...
The Guardian, BBC News and Belfast Telegraph report on the assault of two Pakistani men at home in north Belfast. Muhammad Asif Khattak, 24, was subjected to a torrent of racist abuse by a group of people outside his home on Sunday afternoon and later assaulted by a man. His assailants also forced...
The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and The Times continue to provide coverage on the alleged ‘Trojan’ plot in Birmingham schools as the publication of the findings of Ofsted are awaited. The reports which were expected to be published this week have been deferred by a further week....
BBC News, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian and the Birmingham Mail all report on the latest developments in the alleged ‘Trojan Horse’ plot. A total of 21 schools in Birmingham have been investigated since the Department for Education, Birmingham City Council and Ofsted began...
Karen Luckhurst in The Guardian reflects on the BSA survey earlier this week, which revealed that 1 in 3 Britons admit to being ‘racially prejudiced’, noting that her own mixed race daughter experienced racial abuse for the first time when someone called her a ‘P***’. Luckhurst points to...
The delay to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report is back in the news today with reports about a deal struck by the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, with Sir John Chilcot, chair of the Inquiry. Delays which may defer the publication of the long-awaited report until the end of...
Bradford’s local paper, the Telegraph and Argus covers a debate organised by the Bradford Council of Mosques (BCoM) with local MP Philip Davies on the issue of niqab. With the second reading of the Face Coverings (Prohibition) Bill, proposed by fellow Conservative MP Philip Hollobone, in...
BBC News and the Belfast Telegraph continue with coverage on the Northern Irish pastor, who likened Islam to ‘a doctrine spawned in hell’ noting that the First Minister, Peter Robinson, defended the remarks in a newspaper interview saying that he wouldn’t trust Muslims on spiritual...
