Some of the papers today follow the Daily Telegraph lead (Guardian, The Independent, Daily Mail and BBC) on the Sir Sigmund Sternberg Interfaith Lecture to be delivered by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi at the University of Leicester later this afternoon. The DT reports that Lady Warsi will say...
Tony Blair was placed under further pressure ahead of his second appearance on Friday before the Iraq Inquiry after Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney general and Blair’s most senior legal adviser, said on Monday that the former prime minister’s public statements, that Britain did not...
In a refreshing piece for his Telegraph blog, Daniel Knowles replied to an article in Standpoint magazine by an anonymous author (excerpted by Ed West, also of the Telegraph) who painted a troubled picture of supposed ‘Muslim ghettos’ in Birmingham. Knowles refuted the overall thrust of the...
A Guardian investigation into counter-terrorism co-operation between the UK and Bangladesh has revealed a detailed picture of the last Labour government’s reliance on overseas intelligence agencies that were known to use torture, raising more concerns about the UK government’s...
Islamic extremists, in their ‘bid’ to erase Christian culture and ‘our national identities’, now have an ally in the form of the European Union, according to Leo McKinstry. In his Daily Express column yesterday, McKinstry wrote that “the ideological fanatics of Brussels have nothing...
The Daily Star ignominiously repeats the dubious presentation of crime data on Asian gangs convicted of child rape and prostitution in two articles in the last few days. On Friday the paper ran a story “No schoolgirl is safe from these Asian sex gangs,” together with an editorial proclaiming...
Douglas ‘conditions for Muslims must be made harder across the board’ Murray, Director of the notorious “Centre for Social Cohesion”, argues in The Spectator magazine this week against Britain’s continued involvement in the European Convention on Human Rights, the better to resolve...
Roy Greenslade, in his Guardian blog, reflected on what the withdrawal of Richard Desmond’s publishing group, Northern and Shell, from the Press Complaints Commission means for the public and to the future of the PCC’s system of media self-regulation. The group is behind such publications as...
Prime Minister David Cameron, after talks with French prime minister, Francois Fillon, is reported to have said that he is “becoming increasingly convinced [that] it is not enough just to target violent extremism – we have to target extremism itself.” From the Daily Express: “Prime...
Ed West last week authored a piece on his Telegraph blog in which he contested the argument presented in a Liberal Conspiracy blog on the purported “Islamification of Britain” and the results of the British Social Attitudes survey on religious affiliation in the UK. While Matt Hill on...
