The universities minister, David Lammy (pictured), in an interview with the BBC, has said that universities identified as being at risk of targeting by extremists will have counter-terrorism police stationed on campus. Mr Lammy told BBC Radio 4’s The Report, “We have identified...
The former director of public prosecutions, Sir Ken MacDonald QC (pictured), has criticized the UK’s system of self-regulation of the press calling on “all credible media organisations” to withdraw from the “farcical” Press Complaints Commission (PCC). According to the...
Karen Armstrong (pictured), author of Muhammad: A biography of the Prophet and Islam a Short History, contributes a comment piece to the Guardian today on the Chilcot Inquiry and how it ‘will change the way Muslims see the west’ if the inquiry does not descend into a whitewash and permits...
The Jewish Chronicle reports that Tzipi Livni is planning to visit the UK within months to test the government’s resolve in changing the law on universal jurisdiction. The government has come under heavy lobbying pressure from Israel and Anglo-Jewish groups to amend the law, which allows for...
Andrew Dismore (pictured), MP for Hendon and chairman of the Joint Committee on Human Rights has questioned whether the credibility of the government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, Lord Carlile, has been undermined. Dismore also advocated introducing a fixed term for the...
The burqa continues to attract the most illiberal of attitudes with the Conservative MP for Kettering, Philip Hollobone (pictured), expressing ‘huge sympathy with those who want action taken against people who want to cover themselves up in public’ and likening it to ‘the religious...
Amnesty International has criticised Israel’s response to UN demands for investigations into allegations of breaches of international humanitarian law during its brutal assault on Gaza last year as being ‘totally inadequate’. Amnesty International Middle East and North Africa Programme...
The Independent published an article yesterday on the findings of a ComRes survey it commissioned on attitudes towards the burqa. See the survey results here. Contrast the Independent’s headline on the article and its opening paragraph with the coverage on the same in the Daily Mail and the...
The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP today delivered the first address in IPPR’s series of speeches by senior politicians and leading thinkers on a progressive future for Britain, as we approach the next general election. Speaking at the Royal Society of Arts, the Prime Minister...
Lord Andrew Phillips of Sudbury (pictured) writes a comment piece for The Independent today on the gross travesty of justice that persists in the Middle East with the Palestinians in Gaza suffering under a blockade while Israel is allowed to act with impunity, despite its breaches of UN...
