The papers today (Telegraph, Times, Independent) report on the rebuff by Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman (pictured), of foreign secretary, David Miliband’s request that Israel co-operate fully with the UK in getting to the bottom of the fake British passports that were used by the...
The Guardian at the weekend published a collection of contributions from leading thinkers on the role and purpose of ethics in economics, politics and society. Learning from the financial crisis and consequent recession, and the lack of ethical conduct uncovered by the MPs expenses scandal, the...
The Daily Telegraph reports on a further five cases pending investigation into MI5’s (Director General, Jonathan Evans, pictured) collusion in the torture of British Muslims abroad. The paper reports that the Attorney General, Baroness Scotland, is to decide this week on whether the five case...
The Daily Mail front page story on Friday claimed that MI6 had been tipped off about the use of fake British passports in the assassination of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh in Dubai last month. The paper reported:‘MI6 was tipped off that Israeli agents were going to carry out an ‘overseas...
The Jewish Chronicle today reports that senior Tories have assured Tzipi Livni that if they form the next government they will change the law on universal jurisdiction. Kenneth Clarke (pictured, left) and Edward Garnier (pictured, right), MPs for Rushcliffe and Harborough respectively, are...
The newspapers today dwell on the government’s summoning the Israeli Ambassador to the UK to explain the use of British passports by assassins in the murder of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month. The papers report Israel’s ambassador’s summons to the foreign office to “share...
The BBC carries an analysis by Jonathan Marcus, the BBC News Diplomatic Correspondent, on the murder of Mahmoud Al Mabhouh asking if his murder is ‘an own goal for Israel?’ The article reflects on the reactions of British and Israeli politicians and media to the information being...
Among articles printed in last week’s special issue of the New Statesman magazine on Islam, is this piece by David Blanchflower (pictured) on the effects of the slow down of economic growth and the problems of underemployment on British Muslims, particularly youth. He wrote:‘The National...
The chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips (pictured), has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Lord Adonis, expressing the EHRC’s disquiet over the government’s introduction of body scanners at airports in the UK and questioning the policy’s...
Voting for your preferred reforms in the Power 2010 campaign, created to change the way we do politics in the UK, ends next week on February 22nd. You can select between support for reforming the FPTP electoral system to PR, a written constitution, the scrapping of national databases that...
