Read the transcript of the speech given by Press Complaints Commission Chairman, Baroness Peta Buscombe, at the Society of Editors annual conference here. Excerpts from the speech: ‘[L]et me make sure you know exactly who I am and what I am going to do at the PCC. ‘My attitude...
The Press Complaints Commission’s Governance Review, announced earlier in the year by Baroness Buscombe, has issued its consultation paper and call for evidence today. The governance review panel is to look into: “[M]atters relating to the governance of the Press Complaints...
The Guardian on Monday reported about a series of verbal and serious physical assaults on Muslim students at City University in London. According to the paper ‘a mob of 30 white and black youths are said to have surrounded Asian students near City University in central London and...
An article by Gwynne Dyer (pictured) in Wednesday’s edition of the New Zealand Herald examines some of the speculation concerning the motive behind the Fort Hood killings last week. Dyer asks why the most likely motive is hardly ever mentioned. He writes: ‘The one explanation...
ENGAGE has replied to the letter from the Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon. Alan Johnson MP, concerning the Guardian’s disclosure of the Prevent programme being used to spy on British Muslims. Read our reply here. You can read our initial letter here, and the Home Secretary’s response, here.
The Jewish Chronicle on Friday carried a front page article by Martin Bright criticising the appointment of Asim Hafeez (pictured) to the post of Community Advisor in the Home Office. Bright wrote: ‘A “hardcore” Islamist has been given a key Home Office job to tackle terrorism and...
The Jewish Chronicle on Friday also featured a story on the BBC Trust’s decision to defend the right of reply offered to Hamas on the BBC’s Panorama programme, ‘Return to Gaza’. The BBC’s editorial complaints unit rejected a complaint lodged by Andrew White that the website...
The UN yesterday endorsed a resolution to act upon the Goldstone report’s findings on war crimes in Gaza, paving the way for its progression to the UN Security Council. The report was adopted as 114 states voted in favour, 18 states, including Israel and the US, voted against, with 44...
You can read the transcript of the speech on Afghanistan given by the Prime Minister yesterday at the Royal College of Defence Studies, here. The PM, speaking on the UK’s enduring commitment to fighting the threat of terrorism at source, said: ‘In the last decade, in hundreds...
Channel 4’s Dispatches programme will screen a documentary titled ‘Inside Britain’s Israel Lobby’, investigating ‘one of the most powerful and influential political lobbies in Britain, which is working in support of the interests of the State of Israel.’ The documentary,...
