West Midlands Police “treated people like idiots,” and displayed a combination of “incompetence, deceit and arrogance.” These were the comments of Roger Godsiff, MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook and Small Heath in relation to how West Midlands Police conducted themselves over a scheme...
ENGAGE has written a response to the Review of Counter-terrorism and Security Powers currently being undertaken by the Home Office. You can read the ENGAGE response here. The scope of the review includes the use of stop and search powers under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. The use of stop and...
“Multiculturalism was once a term of tolerance, an acceptance of acceptance in an increasingly cosmopolitan and urbanised western world. Today it has become just a convenient label which politicians can use to assault immigration.” This is the insight offered by Adrian Hamilton writing in...
The PM, David Cameron, yesterday delivered a statement to the House on the Strategic Defence and Security Review. He detailed changes in four areas that, he argued, signalled a “step change in the way we protect this country’s security interests.” The four areas the PM spoke of are the...
When someone does a thing over and over again, they may have a tendency to get bored with the activity – unless it’s a particular delight of theirs. For the Daily Express, Muslim bashing seems to be one of those delights. An editorial published in the Express yesterday argued for “radical...
Several newspapers, including The Telegraph, the Daily Express and the Daily Star, carried the story of Sheikh Maulana Abu Sayeed, who is reported as saying on rape within marriage, “In Islamic sharia, rape is adultery by force.” “So long as the woman is his wife, it cannot be termed as...
The human rights group, Liberty, has warned the government against draft proposals that would allow race to be a basis for stop and search without suspicion under section 60 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. The Telegraph reports, “The proposed changes to the Police and...
A letter was published in the Leicester Mercury from Abdulkarim Gheewala, President of the Islamic Education Trust in Leicester, which congratulates the community on their recent handling of the attempts by the EDL to cause tension in the area. It is a great example of positive and proactive...
The Telegraph carried a rather bizarre claim in its article entitled, “Inquiries in to terrorism come at a price.” Referring to the current inquest into the July 7 bombings, the paper observes: “There has long been a suspicion that MI5 knew more about the plotters than it let on and might...
The Guardian reports that Sir Paul Stephenson, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police, has “privately lobbied the home secretary to make it harder for people to take legal action against his force.” His recommendations include: “Making it harder for people to sue the police for...
