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...
BNP leader Nick Griffin joined Nicky Campbell’s Radio 5 Live show today, (podcast here), repeating his Islamophobic views. The BNP leader claimed ‘three Sikhs a day are joining the BNP’ and ‘I’m not anti-Muslim, I’m anti-Islam’. Griffin, responding to a question posed by a Muslim...
Demos publish a report today on the importance of understanding the distinct differences between radicalism and violent radicalization, and how policies on engaging Muslims should differentiate between legitimate radical thought and illegal violent radicalization to prevent unnecessarily...
The Muslim News carries out analysis on the prospects of Muslim MPs entering parliament in significant numbers for the first time as we draw closer to the polling day, May 6th. ‘Up to a quarter of the 16 Muslim females standing as candidates at the next month’s general elections are in...
The Times Educational Supplement reports on schools that are refusing to take part in the Government’s Channel programme, part of the Prevent stream of the CONTEST 2 counter-terrorism strategy. The paper reports: ‘Schools are refusing to take part in a Government counter-terrorism strategy...
The Sunday Express has today been forced to pay substantial damages to the charity Ummah Welfare Trust (UWT) for defaming the institution in an article published in December 2009, “Jet bomb ordered by 9/11 spiritual leader”. Press Gazette reports that Luke Staiano of Carter Ruck,...
The Government has released new guidance to local authorities on the Channel project, part of the Prevent stream of the government’s CONTEST 2 counter-terrorism strategy, which appears to address some of the concerns that have been raised by Muslims and civil liberties groups on covert...
With the launch of the Labour party’s election manifesto on Monday, the Conservative party’s manifesto launch yesterday and the Liberal Democrats’ today, there’s plenty for voters to chew on and grill politicians over at election hustings events around the country. Read here on the...
David Cohen in the Evening Standard on Monday wrote the election race to win the constituency seat of Poplar and Limehouse where incumbent Labour MP, Jim Fitzpatrick (pictured), is facing the strong prospect of being unseated. Fitzpatrick was lambasted by Muslim residents in the Borough when he...
