The Daily Mail offers further evidence of the UK Independence Party’s failure to identify members known to hold reprehensible views despite a promise to introduce stricter vetting procedures by party leader, Nigel Farage. Farage, who claimed he had introduced ‘stricter vetting...
The Daily Mail reports on further developments in the delay to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report into the lead up to war in Iraq. According to the paper, the report is unlikely to be published until after the next election, in May 2015, to avoid any blowback to Labour in an election...
There is much media coverage in The Independent on Sunday, The Daily and Sunday Express, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, and BBC News on the alleged ‘Trojan Horse plot’ following the Sunday Telegraph’s revelation of leaked reports into the schools in Birmingham. According...
The Sunderland Echo reports on the charges brought against a member of the English Defence League for criminal damage to a mosque in the city following a rally by the far right group last month. Connor McIntosh, 19, was arrested after being captured on CCTV lashing out at the Jami mosque in Chester...
The Guardian, BBC News, Sky News and ITV News all report on the Sunday Times’ front page story concerning remarks by the new Chairman of the Charities Commission, William Shawcross, on the ‘deadliest threat’ to charities arising from ‘Islamists’ and ‘extremism’. Shawcross in an...
EU Observer reports on the publication of a report by the Council of Europe on the State of Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Europe. The report, which documents Member States’ compliance with fundamental rights as enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, notes serious...
UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, uses his column in the Independent today to address the Times front page article yesterday on his alleged misuse of EU funds. With a post on the UKIP website naming journalists at The Times whom, it claims, “have family or personal connections to the Conservative...
The Mail on Sunday last week carried forth with its coverage on halal meat in the UK with a double page spread titled ‘Horror at Halal Slaughterhouse’ featuring a video secretly filmed inside an abattoir that produces halal meat. Perhaps an attempt to engage in equal opportunities...
The Daily Mail, The Guardian, BBC News, ITV News and local paper, the Birmingham Mail, publish further coverage on the alleged school plot ‘Trojan Horse’ to ‘takeover’ and ‘Islamicise’ schools in Birmingham. The Department of Education has confirmed that several schools are under...
