“Be in no doubt. The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.” This was the message that new Labour leader, Ed Miliband, had for the Labour Party Conference this week. Ed Miliband, who beat his elder brother, David, to the...
“If you have a pop at the British Muslim community in the media, then first of all it will sell a few papers; second, it doesn’t really matter; and third, it’s fair game.” This is the view given by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim woman on the Cabinet, attacking the...
Papers today report on the news that, within months of the “War on Terror”, Tony Blair and senior ministers in the Labour government knew of allegations that UK nationals were being tortured but brushed them aside in a bid to stand “shoulder to shoulder” with the US. The Guardian writes,...
On Saturday, 2nd October, The South Gloucestershire branch of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and UCU are holding a conference on challenging Islamophobia in schools. The event is intended to address the “lack [of] strategies and resources to challenge Islamophobia in the classroom.”...
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the UK’s official human rights watchdog has advised the government that its new guidance on torture may violate UK and international law. From the EHRC website, “The Commission asked whether — in its current form — the...
The PCC has adjudicated on a complaint lodged by a reader against the Daily Star on the paper’s inaccurate and inflammatory coverage of ‘squat’ toilets that were installed in a Rochdale shopping centre. The PCC upholding the complaint on the paper’s breach of clause 1 (Accuracy) of the...
The Sunday Express reports that Dr Zakir Naik, the scholar who was banned from entering the UK by Home Secretary Theresa May in June, has won the first round in a court battle against the Home Office’s exclusion order. Read the Sunday Express article here and ENGAGE’s letter to the Home...
The Independent reports today that the powers for police to hold terror suspects for up to 28 days without charge is to be scrapped and replaced with a shorter period of detention, expected to be 14 days. From The Independent, “The detention period – the longest in the western world –...
Police have arrested six men who could face charges of stirring racial hatred after a video of them burning copies of the Quran on 11th September was posted on YouTube. The Mail Online reports, “At one point, a laughing man kicks what appears to be a Koran while his friends shout: ‘This is...
ENGAGE have written to the Press Complaints Commission concerning the story printed in the Daily Star, ‘Terror funded by cricket fixes‘ on the cricket match-fixing scandal and the paper’s allegation that these were ‘directly funding Al-Qaida terrorism’. Read the...
