The East London Mosque is the latest to report an ‘invasion’ by Britain First, the far right group which is contesting seats in the European Parliament elections this week. The far right party has already been reported to the police for its unsolicited visits to mosques in Bradford and...
The Guardian revisits the issue of press regulation post Leveson Inquiry, with publication of comments aired by a senior civil servant and former managing editor of The Sun praising the industry’s proposed regulator, Ipso. Richard Caseby, a director of communications for the Department of...
Local papers, The Advertiser and Comet, report on the English Defence League’s plans to protest in Stevenage as announced on the group’s Facebook page. The paper notes the group’s plan “to protest at grooming incidents” though any explicable link to criminal cases in...
The Daily Mail reports on the Home Office minister Norman Baker’s ‘deep concern’ over the length of time it is taking to publish the official Chilcot Inquiry report into the Iraq war. Baker’s comments follow those of International Security Minister, Andrew Murrison, who last...
London 24 reports on a report in local paper, Brent & Kilburn Times, which uncovers yet another case of a UKIP candidate making anti-Muslim remarks. Heino Vockrodt, who is standing for the Dudden Hill seat on Brent Council in next week’s London Borough wide elections, described Muslims as...
The Guardian draws attention to yet another cause of embarrassment for UKIP after a further candidate was found to have expressed Islamophobic remarks on social media. John Kearney, the party’s candidate for the local elections for Basingstoke and Dean Borough council this year, wrote the...
Reyhana Patel in the Independent today draws attention to the motion passed by the National Union of Students condemning the antics of Student Rights, the body behind much of the sensationalist reporting on ‘gender segregation’ and campaigns to prevent the exercise of free speech on university...
Since the election last November of Police and Crime Commissioners in England and Wales, we have been busy working with elected PCCs toward the implementation of four key pledges contained in our PCC election manifesto. Key among our priorities is the recording of Islamophobia as a separate...
The Pew Research Center has released its report ahead of the elections next month, “A Fragile Rebound for EU Image on Eve of European Parliament Elections”. The report explores sentiments among populations in seven European countries towards the EU, economic recovery and minority communities....
The Independent, Daily Star, Guardian, ITV News, Bradford Telegraph and Argus, Yorkshire Post and Herald Scotland, all report on the far right group, Britain First’s distribution of anti-Muslim grooming gang leaflets and British Army Bibles to...
