{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8mKwXXlhF4&feature=player_embedded} The EU Observer’s “Let’s talk about EU” programme last week discussed Europol’s “Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2011” with MEPs Franziska Brantner (Greens) and Derk Jan Eppink (European...
The Joint Committee on Human Rights today published its report scrutinizing the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, including proposed changes to the law on universal jurisdiction contained therein. The extant provisions in UK law on universal jurisdiction have come under intense...
The BBC reports that spy cameras installed by Birmingham City Council in local areas heavily populated by Muslims are finally being removed. “Acting Chief Constable Sharon Rowe said: “The work starting today shows that we have listened to what our communities wanted and acted upon...
It’s been an eventful weekend for the Muslims Against Crusades misfits. There’s extensive coverage of their provocative staging of “funeral prayers” for Usama bin Laden outside the US embassy in London, with the usual exaggeration of numbers present in the right wing tabloids (see...
The Guardian today runs a special report on the concluding of the inquest into the London bombings of July 7th and the merciless killing of 52 people on London’s transport network by four young British Muslim men. The report includes an article by Vikram Dodd on the government’s domestic...
Election results from yesterday’s local and regional elections are being declared today and news that the BNP has suffered further losses to its number of council seats held. From the BBC: “After 207 council election results, the anti-immigration party had won one seat with a net loss of...
The BBC reports that the five men arrested at the Sellafield nuclear site on Monday have all been released without charge. The men who were arrested under Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 were said to be taking photographs at the site prompting police suspicion. The news of their arrest,...
The BBC reports on the start of the trial of four Metropolitan Police officers charged with a sustained and violent attack on Babar Ahmad. From the BBC:“Babar Ahmad was arrested in a dawn raid on his home in Fountain Road, Tooting, south London, on 2 December 2003. “The officers attacked him...
With the UK population going to the polls tomorrow to vote in the AV referendum (and in local and regional elections in England, Scotland and Wales), the Independent editorial today urges voters to “Just say Yes to voting reform”. From the paper: “Tomorrow the British public will have...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the posting of offensive remarks about Islam and Muslims on Facebook by a BNP candidate standing for a seat in the council elections in Blackburn and Darwen. “Nancy Shaw-Farmer, who is bidding to become a councillor in Roe Lee in Blackburn, has been...
