Local paper, Cambridge News, reports on details released over the proposed demonstration by the East Anglia branch of the English Defence League against the Mill Road mosque in Cambridge. The paper broke news of the EDL’s intention to demonstrate late last year and today publishes further details...
AC Grayling in the Independent dwells on the release yesterday of data concerning the number of faith schools that have applied for free school status. Adumbrating the superior rationality of the humanist, Grayling critiques the capacity of faith schools to engage in teaching methods that teach a...
Regional paper, the Birmingham Mail, reports on the serving of non-halal food to Muslim schoolchildren at Moseley School. The local council launched an investigation in December after being alerted to the claims by the school. The incident occurred on December 12th though details are only just...
The Independent today covers the Freedom of Information request lodged by the British Humanist Association to learn of the number of religious groups that have submitted applications to run free schools. The Independent notes: “The figures show that 132 of the 517 applications to open free...
The website politics.co.uk covers figures released by the Electoral Commission today on party political donations in the final quarter of 2012 (Oct-Dec). According to the website, the figures show a substantial increase in donations and bequests made to the British National Party. The report notes,...
The London Evening Standard reports on offensive and racist postings on Facebook by a member of Transport for London staff. The postings, dating as far back as 2010, reveal a deep antipathy for Asians and Muslims. Martin Aitken posted messages such as: “Did you know that in the time it takes to...
The Mail on Sunday yesterday reported on the PM’s reaction to an alleged threat received by a shop owner in Chipping Norton whose building was to be converted into an Islamic community centre. Chipping Norton town council approved the plans last week but the shop’s owner, Georg Wissenger, said...
The Yorkshire Post reports on Sheffield Council’s initiative to set up new “third party reporting centres” across the city to tackle the under-reporting of hate crimes. The centres, which will be staffed by trained individuals, are to be set up in locations including universities, libraries,...
The newspapers’ favourite ‘rent-a-gob’ features in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express and Daily Star today, following an article in The Sun on Sunday about Anjem Choudary and his haranguing his small group of misfits. The Sun, which filmed Choudary espousing his usual provocative...
The website, Loonwatch, alerts us to another incident of abuse at the Nasir mosque in Hartlepool. Loonwatch reports: “Police are hunting two men and a woman who burst into a mosque and shouted racial abuse. The incident happened at the Nasir Mosque on Brougham Terrace, in Hartlepool, at around...
