The Independent on Saturday published a feature article interviewing the parents of Mohamed Sakr, a British-Egyptian citizen who was stripped of his British citizenship and subsequently killed in a drone attack in Somalia last February. The paper earlier published the findings of a Bureau of...
The Daily Mail, Independent, Guardian, Metro, The Sun and BBC News all cover the discovery of pork DNA in ‘halal’ chicken sausages supplied to a primary school in west London. Tests conducted on school meals following the horsemeat scandal found that the presence of pork DNA in chicken sausages...
The Independent today covers the speech delivered by Security Minister, James Brokenshire MP, yesterday at the launch of the report, ‘A Neo-Nationalist Network: The English Defence League and Europe’s Counter-Jihad Movement’. Speaking about the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy,...
Local paper, the Tameside Reporter, reports on a point of consideration raised in Parliament by the MP for Stalybridge and Hyde, following an English Defence League demonstration last month, asking whether such protests, which cause disruption, require significant policing resources, and which...
Chris Blackhurst, the editor of The Independent, writes a column in the paper today explaining why he, along with the editors of the Guardian, and Financial Times, Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber respectively, have broken ranks with other editors to push for statutory underpinning to press...
The Guardian today publishes a column by Philippe Sands QC, a leading international human rights lawyer, in which he explains why he too has quit the Liberal Democrats over the party’s stance on secret courts. Sands explains that Lib Dem support for the Justice and Security Bill is “a...
Local paper, the Western Gazette, reports on councillor Marjorie Snowden of Sherborne in Dorset, who has been found by the Standards Committee of West Dorset District Council to have breached the code of conduct after equalities trainers alleged she “made remarks which were clearly hostile to...
Local paper, Surrey Advertiser, reports on the trial of one of the women charged with racially and religiously aggravated criminal damage after racist graffiti, including the words ‘Saddam Hussein’, ‘Osama bin Laden’ and ‘EDL’, were spray painted onto buildings...
BBC News reported on the exhibition, London Veil, featuring hijab-wearers of all colours and styles, which was on display at London’s Festival Hall last Friday and Sunday, 8th and 10th March. As part of the Women of the World Festival at London’s South Bank, the exhibition “[gave]...
The Birmingham Mail reports on a protest outside Erdington Hall Primary School by a group calling themselves ‘Infidels of Britain’ last week. The school was attended by pupil, Aaron Dugmore, whose family claim “took his life after racist taunts by Asian bullies at school”. The...
