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...
The Southern Daily Echo carries a feature item on Noor ul Islam primary school (pictured) in Leyton, east London. Prompted by the possibility of a Muslim school opening in Southampton, and what it could mean for the community there, reporter Sarah Jones goes off to observe the workings of a...
The Jewish Chronicle front page today revisits the heavy lobbying Government is facing from Anglo-Jewish organisations to amend universal jurisdiction provisions before the next election. The paper two weeks ago reported that the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, was pushing for legislation to...
The Tory MP for Monmouth, David Davies, has sparked outrage by making comments interlinking rape with attitudes towards women in minority cultures. Commenting on a rape case and the background of the attacker, Balal Khan, Davies said: “I think there is a wider question here – what is...
The testimony of Sir Michael Wood (pictured), chief legal adviser at the Foreign Office, and his deputy, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, to the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War reveals the extent to which the Blair government roundly ignored the legal advice of international law experts, pressuring them...
Today sees the launch of the European Muslim Research Centre (EMRC) and its seminal research paper on ‘Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Hate Crime: a London Case Study’. The EMRC, based at Exeter University, is co-directed by Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer and Dr Robert Lambert, former head of the...
The Independent today prints a letter from the MCB responding to Yasmin Alibhai Brown’s article in Monday’s edition of the paper in which she referred to the organisation as “retrogressive” for its opposing the banning of Muslim female attire (niqab and burqa). The letter reads:...
UN Human Rights experts have published a report on the ‘reinvigorated’ use of secret detention as part of states’ counter-terrorism efforts and the human rights abuses involved in the practice. ‘In a 222-page study which will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March, the...
