Letter to Press Complaints Commission (PCC), 16 January. Letter to the Rt Hon William Hague MP, 23 April. Response from Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 9 August 2013, available here. Letter to Michael King, Vice President of the Methodist Conference, 8 July. Letter to Edward McMillan MEP,...
The Independent’s religious affairs correspondent, Jerome Taylor, has written an article on French magazine, Charlie Hebdo’s latest go at publishing caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed. The new publication entitled ‘The Life of Mohammed’ claims to be a ‘halal’ comic book biography of...
Education journalist Susan Elkin, writes for Independent Voices today weighing in on the recent story on Muslim parents who are taking a Greek Orthodox school to the High Court, after the school banned their daughter from wearing the headscarf, as reported yesterday in the Daily Telegraph and...
Manchester Evening News reports that the far-right English Defence League is planning a demonstration in the city on 2nd March. According to the paper, “more than 500 people have vowed to attend the march”. It adds that when the EDL visited Manchester city centre in 2009, they were faced with a...
The UK is one of the few EU Member States which collects and regularly publishes data on the incidence of stop and search on ethnic minorities. The Home Office and Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) have regularly published in this area demonstrating the disproportionate number of stops...
BBC Audience Services have responded to our complaint regarding the appearance on BBC News of Jonathan Sacerdoti, former policy director for the Zionist Federation, on four occasions between the 14th-15th November 2012 at a time of heightened violence between Israel and Gaza. In our letter last...
The Daily Telegraph recently published an article over concerns expressed in a Department of Education memo on ‘socially conservative’ faith schools “where pupils may be encouraged to cut themselves off from mainstream society”. The ‘majority’ of faith schools noted in the memo are...
The Times (£) front page today covers an investigation by the newspaper into the funding of All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs). APPGs are unofficial cross-party interest groups set up by and for MPs and peers, and currently cover a wide range of subjects. According to The Times “dozens of...
The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph both report on the MoD response to a freedom of information request by the Guardian on compensation payments made by the department to Afghan civilians and families. According to the Guardian, the payments have been made for a number of claims ranging from...
The Scotsman newspaper reports on the trial of two women for attacking a Muslim woman in a park, punching her in the head and pulling off her hijab, and assaulting her pregnant friend. The article states that the two attackers, Eileen Kennedy and her 16 year old niece, Paige Bain, “assaulted...
