The Independent and BBC News both report on the launch, by Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders, of their vision for a new right-wing bloc in the European Parliament ahead of the election to the European Parliament in 2014. Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Front, and Geert Wilders, leader...
Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, on his constituency homepage presents a classic liberal defence on the right of Muslim women to wear the burqa. The furore following the escape of terror suspect Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, who absconded while dressed in a burqa, has subsequently led to a number of...
BBC News reports on a new briefing paper by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission which has found that Black and Asian people are still far more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police in England and Wales. According to the briefing, Black people were 29 times more...
The Independent front page story claims that the US is behind the document declassification delays which are holding up the final report of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war. Senior diplomatic sources in the US and Whitehall have indicated that the delay is not the result of foot-dragging by UK...
The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is seeking powers to strip UK terror suspects of British citizenship effectively rendering them stateless, Sky News reports. Following the escape of TPim subject, Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, by leaving a west London mosque disguised in a burqa, May now wants the right...
Powers to stop, search and question people at ports and airports in the UK, the Schedule 7 counter-terrorism powers, are being used by MI5 agents to recruit British Muslims to work and spy for them, the Global Post reports. The article relays the experience of a Muslim male who was stopped and...
The Blackpool Gazette reports that a man who threw a pig’s head into one of the city’s mosque’s has been banned from going within 50 metres of any mosque. Thomas Ashton, 20, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated threatening behaviour after he threw a pig’s head into a Blackpool mosque...
The Independent newspaper reports that Ryanair’s chief executive, Michael O’Leary, has called for the burqa to be banned in the UK claiming the country is “leaning over far too much for some of these minority religions”. In an interview with The Times newspaper (£),...
BBC News and the Guardian report on the guilty verdict passed in the case of a Royal Marine accused of subjecting an Afghan prisoner to a ‘battlefield execution’. The marine, known only as Marine A, stood trial in a court martial over allegations arising from video footage recorded by...
An Observer editorial last week covered the longstanding delay to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry’s report. Noting the obstacles placed before the release of key documents to the Inquiry, the editorial criticises the Government for engaging in “a shabby cover-up at worst, or...
