It was inevitable that the resurfacing of the niqab/burqa issue in the press, initiated by UKIP’s announcement of its intention to ban these items of clothing, would see Joan Smith (pictured) of The Independent proffer her blinkered views couched in her familiar secular gender equality...
John Pilger (pictured) in the New Statesman writes on the revival of the spirit of internationalism and political campaigning that led to the demise of apartheid in South Africa, to support the Palestinians and highlight Israel’s continued violations of international law. He writes: ...
The Guardian on Saturday printed a letter signed by politicians, lawyers, human rights activists, academics trade unionists and British Muslims expressing their shock at the government’s attempt to tamper with the law on universal jurisdiction to provide visiting Israeli officials...
It’s rare that one can find something to agree on with Rod Liddle (pictured) and his views of Muslim affairs, but in his column in this week’s Sunday Times, he is right to argue against the ban on Islam4UK and defend the group’s right to be ‘stupid, vile and obnoxious’....
The papers are awash with the UK Independence Party’s announcement at the weekend that it will ban the burqa and niqab in the UK: Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Star, The Times and the BBC). Nigel Farage (pictured), former UKIP leader and current MEP Leader in the European parliament, told...
The Quilliam Foundation issued a press release on Wednesday this week drawing attention to co-director Maajid Nawaz’s (pictured) performance on Newsnight, confronting Anjem Choudary on the day the government announced that it was to ban Islam4UK and Al Muhajiroun under terrorism legislation....
The Jewish Chronicle reports that new legislation preventing UK magistrates from issuing arrest warrants for visiting Israeli officials accused of war crimes is to be unveiled next week. ‘The new legislation will pass the power to issue arrest warrants for prominent figures such as Ms Livni to...
{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eYbanlaAdY} Viewers can watch David Toube of Harry’s Place making an utter fool of himself, insolently disrupting a meeting by Cage Prisoners at the launch of their report on ‘Detention without Charge in the UK’, at Freshfields law firm in...
Human rights group Liberty has won a landmark case against the government in challenging the arbitrary and widespread use of Section 44 of the Terrorism Act, which allows for ‘stop and search’ of private citizens by the police acting on ‘a hunch’. Judges at the European Court of Human...
Jonathan Freedland (pictured) in the Guardian today reflects on Alastair Campbell’s testimony to the Chilcot Inquiry yesterday and the enduring scars the Iraq war has afflicted on the body politic. Freedland writes: ‘…the Iraq episode continues to cast a long shadow over our public life....
