The Welsh Assembly has recently launched its community cohesion strategy for Wales on preventing all forms of violent extremism, ‘Getting on Together’. The assembly will also be holding ‘awareness sessions’ focused on tackling threats to cohesion in the Higher and Further Education...
If you missed the first part of Peter Taylor’s (pictured) documentary for BBC 2, ‘Generation Jihad’, you can catch it again on BBC iPlayer, here. In the first of a three part series, ‘Peter hears from those convicted under Britain’s newest anti-terror laws and...
Sir Norman Bettison (pictured), the Association of Chief Police Officers’ representative for policy on tackling violent extremism, told Peter Taylor, in his programme ‘Generation Jihad’ that the Muslim community ‘could do more’ to help police forces tackle the threats posed by...
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...
