From today’s Independent: ‘The Electoral Commission disclosed that nearly 400,000 voting registration forms were downloaded from its site ahead of last night’s deadline to register for a vote. ‘It said 40 per cent of visits to its website had been from young adults aged 18 to 24....
For those of you who have not yet registered to vote in the May 6th general and local elections, TODAY is the deadline for registration. Visit the ‘About My Vote’ site to register online now. Remember, if you’re not on the electoral roll, you can’t cast a vote. In an election as hotly...
Professor Wolfgang Benz (pictured), Director of the Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University, Berlin, in an interview with Qantara talks about the structural similarities in the stigmatisation of Muslims and Jews in Europe. Qantara: Herr Benz, your article in the...
Three men have been arrested after a pig’s head was thrown into the car park of a mosque in Crawley, west Sussex (pictured). From the BBC: ‘Police were alerted by people attending Langley Green mosque, in Crawley, on Saturday after a white car drove by. ‘A 21-year-old man from Horley was...
David Yelland (pictured), former editor of The Sun, (the paper ‘wot won it’ for the Tories in 1992), writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free on how the Lib Dem surge in the polls upsets the applecart of media backing for the two main parties in UK general elections and particularly, the...
The Jewish Chronicle reports: ‘An anti-extremism campaigner has attacked the Union of Jewish Students and claimed the organisation bowed to pressure from Islamic students by withdrawing an invitation to him to appear in a panel debate. ‘Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social...
Regeneration and Renewal magazine reports on Conservative shadow communities’ spokesperson Stewart Jackson MP (pictured), Member of Parliament for Peterborough, saying “fifteen year old Muslim boys’ initiation rites [in Afghanistan] are to rape a woman and shoot a foreigner”, at...
The BBC Daily Politics Cabinet Contender Election Debates today focuses on foreign affairs featuring David Miliband v William Hague v Ed Davey. Tune in to BBC 2 at 14.15 – 15.00 today for a live election debate on the parties’ foreign policy platforms. You can also read excerpts taken from...
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) released a briefing paper today on ‘Exploring the Roots of BNP support’. The report finds that social, economic and political exclusion, and not immigration, are the key variables that explain voter tendency in favour of the BNP. The mainstream...
Gordon Prentice MP (pictured), who took part in ENGAGE’s election hustings in Pendle yesterday, reflects on the event on his blog. Writing about faith schools and other questions put to him and the other election candidates yesterday, Prentice acknowledges that ‘Get out and vote is making a...
