The Nottingham Post has reported that police are investigating a hate crime against a Muslim family in Bingham, where a cross wrapped in ham was left outside their new home. The father of the family, who first saw the cross told the paper that “There was a knock on the door and I went to...
The Scotsman newspaper draws attention to the latest official figures on race hate crimes in Scotland co-published by the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) and the Scottish Government. The figures show that racist incidents – defined as ‘any incident which is...
A local paper, the Peterlee Star, reports that the English Defence League and other far right groups will hold a protest in Shotton Colliery, County Durham, next month to demonstrate against recently approved plans to turn a derelict pub into a Muslim education centre. According to the paper, the...
Luton Today reports on the reaction of locals to the number of ballots cast in favour of English Defence League candidate, Kevin Carroll, in the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) elections last week. Carroll, a senior figure in the EDL stood as a candidate for the British Freedom Party. According...
The Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz’s interim report on ‘Child Sexual Exploitation in Gangs and Groups’ has attracted significant attention in the press today including the Guardian, the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Independent and the Times (£). Media attention of the issue...
The Daily Star on Sunday carried an article, featured on its front page yesterday, on a ‘fatwa’ issued by Anjem Choudary on the Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was recently shot by the Taliban for her activism on the issue of women’s education. The paper states that “British-based...
The Daily Mail reports ahead of this week’s publication of the official inquiry into child sexual exploitation with claims that the final report “will fail to highlight the targeting of white girls by Pakistani men.” The inquiry, led by the deputy children’s commissioner for England, Sue...
You can read the reply from the US Ambassador to the UK to our letter on the tragic death of the US Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens, here.
The Mail on Sunday’s front page article last week covered the allegations that David Cameron’s newly appointed election campaign chief, Lynton Crosby, used the phrase “f****** Muslims” when advising incumbent Boris Johnson during last year’s London mayoral election. . The Mail on Sunday...
You can read our letter to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, on the bombardment of Gaza, here. You can write to your MP with your own views on the situation – details of how to contact your MP can be found here. The Foreign Secretary’s statement to House of Commons on Gaza, the Middle East...
