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,...
The Brent and Harrow branch of Unite Against Fascism is to stage a Festival of Unity on Saturday 21st November, ahead of the Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) group’s planned march on December 13th. Unite Against Fascism (UAF) is organising the festival, with political speeches and...
Denis MacShane MP (pictured) is embroiled in a race row following his appearance at the Cambridge Union on October 30th speaking against the motion, “This House Believes that Israel Demands too Much and Gives too Little in the Peace Process.” The former Minister for Europe and current...
The Committee on Standards in Public Life has today published its report on ‘MPs’ expenses and allowances: Supporting Parliament, safeguarding the taxpayer’. The inquiry was prompted by the MPs’ expenses scandal revealed in the Telegraph some months ago. Launching the report, Sir...
The Metropolitan Police officer who was involved in the “serious, gratuitous and prolonged attack” of Babar Ahmad (pictured) when he was arrested in December 2003 has been named today as Pc Mark Jones. The police constable was in Kingston Crown Court to answer charges of racially...
The Jewish Chronicle reports that ‘Britain and France have today delivered a new proposal to the United Nations calling on Israel and the Palestinians to launch an immediate inquiry into allegations of war crimes during the war in Gaza.’ The paper relays that Israeli PM, Binyamin Netanyahu...
Listen to the speech given by the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson MP, at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) yesterday on ‘Security in the 21st Century: Global, National, Local’, here (audio file). Speaking on the Government’s Prevent strategy, and recent allegations of the use of the...
Shahid Malik MP, minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government, and David Hanson MP, minister for policing, crime and counter-terrorism (both pictured), contribute an article to the Guardian’s Comment is Free. They tackle criticisms of the Government’s Prevent strategy that...
