The Daily Mail yesterday reported on comments made by the Children’s Minister, Tim Loughton, to the Home Affairs select committee inquiry into ‘Localised child grooming’ headlining the article ‘Don’t let PC brigade bury ethnic links to sex gangs, warns children’s minister’. Loughton,...
A Bristol paper reports that 2,000 local people have signed a petition calling for a march planned by the English Defence League later this month to be banned by the Home Secretary, Theresa May. The action is similar to that taken last year when the Home Secretary acceded to a request by the...
Further to the Observer’s misrepresentation of the views of the outgoing archbishop of Canterbury in last week’s Sunday paper, the newspaper this week has published the following in its ‘For the Record’ section: “Our coverage last week of Faith in the Public Square, a forthcoming book by...
The Dewsbury Reporter and the Yorkshire Evening Post have both reported that a protest by the English Defence League and counter-protest by Unite Against Fascism on Saturday passed off largely without incident, however five people were arrested for minor incidents. From the Yorkshire Evening Post:...
The Press Association and The Times (£) reported over the weekend on new research which finds that British people from ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to identify with ‘Britishness’ than their white peers. The research finds that of all groups, Muslims are the most likely to...
The Independent today reports that former PM Tony Blair could be called to testify in the cases brought by Abdel Hakim Belhadj and Sami al-Saadi against Jack Straw and Sir Mark Allen, on charges of complicity in their torture and rendition to Libya. From The Independent: “Tony Blair could be...
BBC News and the Guardian have covered a report published by the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC on ‘The Terrorism Acts 2011’. His report looks at the operation of the Terrorism Act 2000 and Part 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006 in 2011. In his report, he criticises...
The BBC Trust has published a report on ‘the impartiality and accuracy’ of the BBC’s coverage of the Arab Spring. The report states that the Trust chose to look at this particular topic “because of its importance and because the complexity of deciding how to organise impartial coverage in a...
The Bolton News, the Lancashire Evening Post and the Daily Mail have all reported on the sentencing of a group of English Defence League supporters charged with racially aggravated public disorder offences. The offences were carried out at a string of anti-Islam ‘flash demonstrations’ last...
The Daily Mail reports that the online book-seller, Amazon, has allowed the sale of offensive, racist and ‘potentially dangerous’ literature through its ebooks platform, which allows any self-publishing author to upload ebooks for sale without content passing through the normal screening...
