Lord Patten of Barnes has said that Israel’s policy of blockading Gaza has been a ‘terrible failure – immoral, illegal and ineffective’ and has ‘deliberately triggered an economic and social crisis which has many humanitarian consequences.’ In an interview...
The former head of MI5, Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller, told the Chilcot inquiry that the invasion of Iraq in 2003 ‘substantially‘ increased the terrorist threat to the UK. The Guardian reports: ‘More than once, the former head of MI5 emphasised to the Chilcot inquiry that...
Britain’s immigration minister, Damien Green, has ruled out the possibility of a French-style ban on women wearing the burqa and niqab in the UK maintaining it would be ‘un-British‘. Green said that banning Muslim women from covering their faces in public would be at odds with...
Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, is currently in Afghanistan to attend the Kabul International Conference, according to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. William Hague will be joined by ‘representatives from around 70 partner countries, international and regional...
The far-right Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, has said he is forming an international ‘freedom alliance’ to spread his message to Britain in a bid to ban immigration from Muslim countries. From the Guardian: ‘Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom party, told the Associated...
A shopping centre in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, has installed new ‘squat’ toilets for customers after bosses reportedly went on a cultural diversity training course. Two of Rochdale’s Exchange shopping centre’s fourteen toilets have been converted into nile pans.
Former Guantanamo Bay detainees can proceed with lawsuits in which they accuse Britain of complicity in torture overseas, according to a High Court ruling yesterday. The government had attempted to ask the judge to direct the six men to halt their lawsuits and instead enter into talks to reach...
It has emerged that the government’s £60m Prevent programme is to ‘be dismantled after a widespread loss of confidence in it within Muslim communities.’ From the Guardian: ‘While the tabloids complained that the [Prevent] programme was funnelling millions of pounds to...
The government ‘plotted to send UK citizens to Guantanamo’ Bay, reports the Guardian. Previously classified documents disclosed in the High Court and handed to lawyers representing six men, who allege that Britain was complicit in their detention, show that Foreign Office officials...
On the eve of Bastille Day marking the French republic’s secular narrative, French MPs voted 335 to one in favour of a law outlawing the burka and niqab from French streets. The vote, which must be backed by the Senate in September before coming into effect, means France is the second...
