Various news outlets including, BBC News, The Guardian, The Independent, ITV News, London Evening Standard and the East London Advertiser, all reported on the English Defence League protest in Tower Hamlets which took place on Saturday 7th September. Around 600 supporters from the far right...
Website Politics.co.uk covered the parliamentary debate on the burqa on Friday prompted by the Private Members Bill submitted by burqa critic and Tory MP, Philip Hollobone. The bill is one of a number of radically right-wing private members bills to be debated in the Commons between now and...
Security minister James Brokenshire gave a speech last week at the conference of the Far Right Special Interest Group in which he outlined the threat posed by far right extremism in the UK. The minister, who has previously spoken of far right extremism presenting a ‘real threat’ to security,...
BBC News and the local paper, Harlow Star, cover the arrest of three teenagers in connection with the arson attack on the Harlow Islamic Centre last month. Essex police released cctv images of three men they were looking to question in relation with the incident 10 days ago. BBC News reports:...
The Daily Mail reports that the principal of a Birmingham secondary school has issued a statement of apology to all her Muslim pupils after they were inadvertently fed bacon when a box of sandwich spread was wrongly labelled as halal chicken and sweetcorn. Chris Quinn, the executive principal of...
The Financial Times (£) today publishes a letter signed by a number of academics and faith leaders criticising the Government’s proposals, expected to be announced later this month, to scrap the national census and replace it with alternative methods of gathering data on the UK population. The...
The Metro newspaper reports the comments of Labour MP for Corby, Andy Sawford, who has criticized the Government’s anti-immigration vans for fuelling racist attacks on minorities in his constituency. Speaking about an anti-Muslim incident in Corby, where a mosque was sprayed with racist graffiti,...
The Guardian’s G2 today has a feature on the significance of the BME vote in the 2015 general election. Asking ‘Could black voters swing it in [the] UK in 2015?,’ journalist Hugh Muir looks at the size and swing potential of ethnic minority voters. Detailing analysis undertaken on the size of...
The Metropolitan Police Service have imposed restrictions to the planned English Defence League protest in east London this weekend, but have not proceeded to support a full ban, the East London Advertiser reports. The far right group had hoped to march through London Borough of Tower Hamlets,...
The Darlington and Stockton Times reports that a hoax story popular on the internet and featuring an alleged baby beating in Teesside is to be investigated by police after claims that it appears to be racially motivated. Cleveland Police have confirmed that there is no truth in the report – which...
