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...
Jonathan Githens-Mazer and Robert Lambert, joint Directors of the European Muslim Research Centre, follow the latter’s article last week, ‘UK counter-terrorism aids far right’, with an article for Guardian Comment is Free on ‘Reshaping Prevent’, which critically appraises the IRR...
The BBC has revamped its Parliament website with the launch of Democracy Live. The new site is an attempt to both open up the workings of parliament to voters, and to educate the public about the work of British political institutions. The site will provide visitors the ability to track...
The News of the World publishes an article on comments made by UK Independence Party peer, Lord Malcolm Pearson, in which he makes Eurabia style comments such as, Muslims are “breeding ten times faster than us.” “I don’t know at what point they reach such a number we are no...
