The Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) today issued the first ever EU-wide survey on ethnic minorities: ‘Mapping Discrimination across Europe’. The EU-MIDIS survey interviewed 23,500 people with an ethnic minority or immigrant background across the EU’s 27 Member States, and is the largest...
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, John Denham MP (pictured), delivered the keynote address at the Prevent conference in Birmingham today. The conference is intended for frontline staff in local councils and the police forces, all involved in delivering the...
Crispin Blunt MP (pictured), shadow minister for Home Affairs and Counter-Terrorism, delivered a keynote address on ‘The roles of the state and the British Muslim community in tackling radicalisation and violent extremism’, at an event organised by the League of British Muslims on...
Alex Massie (pictured), on Spectator blogs takes aim at fellow Spectator blogger, Rod Liddle, and his penchant for mistaking prejudiced for provocative. Massie writes, ‘...like his comrades Clarkson and Littlejohn, Liddle confuses being offensive with being provocative.’ Liddle, in a...
Stephen Pollard (pictured), editor of the Jewish Chronicle, authors a guest column in The Times today revisiting the controversy over the Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation and Hizb ut-Tahrir. He writes: ‘Just as the anti-Muslim EDL and SIOE are racists who would expunge all who do not fit their...
While the New Statesman magazine publishes an interview with Jack Straw MP, in which he says the banning of organisations like HT would require the necessary evidence to justify proscription, the Spectator this week carries an article by Andrew Gilligan (pictured) on the Islamic Shakhsiyah...
The Spectator this week also publishes an article by Rod Liddle (pictured), commenting on the Swiss ban on the building of minarets, ‘It’s not just the Swiss — all Europe is ready to revolt’. Liddle writes: ‘In the last ten years the people of Europe have begun to revolt against...
Craig Murray (pictured), former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, analyses US President, Barack Obama’s speech on committing a further 30,000 US troops to Afghanistan and his claim that ‘our cause is just, our resolve unwavering’. Murray writes: ‘The occupation of Afghanistan...
Jack Straw, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, talks about electoral reform, the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq war and responds to critics who claim he is “too close” to the Muslim Council of Britain and ‘soft on Islamism’ in an interview published in this week’s...
The Government has been dealt a further blow to its policy of using secret evidence to obstruct due process. In what human rights lawyers have hailed as a ‘historic’ ruling, the High Court yesterday judged that the Government could not deny individuals bail citing secret evidence as reasons...
