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...
Read the transcript of shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling’s speech, ‘Radicalism is a domestic and international challenge‘, to the Heritage Foundation in Washington today. Excerpted from the speech: ‘Today I want to set out how a Conservative Government in Britain...
Michael Gove (pictured), shadow secretary for children, schools and families, responds in the Telegraph to the comment piece by Ed Balls published yesterday, on Muslim faith schools and Hizb ut-Tahrir. He writes: ‘I want to support all the major faiths of this country in establishing and...
Jonathan Freedland (pictured) in the Guardian offers a sober reflection on the Swiss ban on minarets and what it connotes of majority attitudes towards minority groups in Europe. He writes: ‘[H]ow would I react if the Swiss voted to restrict the way synagogues are built? With horror, of...
