The Home Secretary Alan Johnson has today announced that the government is to move to proscribe Islam4UK and its parent organisation Al Muhajiroun, and any other successor group the organisation mutates into, under counter-terrorism laws. The BBC reports that the Home Secretary as saying:...
Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Phillips of Sudbury (pictured), writes to The Guardian (Guardian Letters, Saturday 9th January) on the conflicting messages in Government policy pertaining to the Middle East and security. Lord Phillips writes: ‘The start of the new year brought reports of the...
The BBC Panorama programme on Monday 11th January, ‘A Walk in the Park‘ will look at Jerusalem and the disputes arising from illegal Israeli building in the occupied eastern part of the city, the proposed future capital of a Palestinian state. ‘Jane Corbin (pictured) walks...
No surprise that Damian Thompson, after proposing to donate small sums to a Jewish charity every time an anti-semitic comment is posted to his blog, should waste no time in posting a blog that incites fear and loathing of Muslims. Thompson, picking up on the article written for the Times...
The Government’s Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU) has issued a factsheet concerning the skirmishes between the Viva Palestina convoy, carrying aid and equipment to the beleaguered people of Gaza, and the Egyptian police patrolling Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip. The...
You can read the statement made to the House of Commons by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson (pictured), on Aviation and Border Security on Tuesday, here. Key excerpts from the statement are reproduced below: ‘With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the failed...
Seumas Milne (pictured) in his Guardian column today superbly dissects the multiple and enduring catastrophes brought about by the persistent failure of the UK and US governments to understand that standing full square behind despots and dictators in the Middle East is a ‘recipe for a war on...
Letter to the Editor, BBC Panorama, Dec 2010 Letter to the Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP Home Secretary, Dec 2010 Letter to the Jewish Chronicle, Dec 2010 Letter to the Press Complaints Commission, Sept 2010 Letter to the Press Complaints Commission, Sept 2010 Letter to the Rt. Hon. William Hague MP...
The Independent reports that a group of Israeli army officers have cancelled a trip to the UK for fear of being arrested for alleged war crimes under universal jurisdiction provisions. The UK Attorney General, Baroness Scotland (pictured), who is currently in Israel, speaking at a lecture at the...
Damian Thompson (pictured), editor of Daily Telegraph Blogs and author of the Holy Smoke blog, has come up with a commendable initiative to counter offensive anti-Semitic comments made on his blog posts. Thompson says, ‘For every anti-Semitic comment that appears on this blog, I will make a...
