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...
A mosque in Hemel Hempstead was left with around a dozen damaged windows after a “racially motivated attack”, according to a report in the local paper, Hemel Today. From the paper: “Bennetts Ends Mosque at St Albans Hill, Hemel Hempstead, had windows smashed as a yob hit the outside of...
The Oldham Evening Chronicle reported yesterday of an attack on an Asian door-to-door salesman. “A door-to-door salesman was robbed and racially attacked in Oldham. The victim, a 20-year-old Asian man, was selling digital TV products on the Limeside estate, in the afternoon on Wednesday,...
It emerged today that the publications of Northern & Shell – the group behind the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Star on Sunday – will no longer be covered by the Press Complaints Commission following a decision by the publishers to stop paying in to the Press Standards...
