BBC’s Panorama programme tonight, ‘Hate on the Doorstep‘, looks at the hate and racial abuse directed at two Muslim reporters on an undercover assignment in Bristol this year. Moving onto the Southmead housing estate on the weekend of the European elections in June this year, the...
The disclosures printed in The Guardian newspaper on Saturday, on the use of the Prevent scheme to ‘spy’ on innocent British Muslims, was complemented with the publication of a report by the Institute of Race Relations.The report ‘Spooked! How not to prevent violent extremism’, outlines...
The Guardian today prints a number of worrying news stories about the government’s Prevent agenda which they say is now being used to spy on Muslims who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism and also to collect information on sexual activities. As an editorial in the Guardian...
Has the Daily Express lost all sight of sense and perspective? Looking at an article printed in today’s paper, ‘Call to ban radical Muslims’ rally over fears of bloodshed’, and the editorial, one would begin to wonder. Continuing on from the story that disgracefully featured on the...
The UN Human Rights Council has today overwhelmingly endorsed the Goldstone report. The report produced by Justice Richard Goldstone (pictured) documents war crimes committed by Israel and the Palestinians during the 22 day brutal offensive against Gaza in which over 1400 Palestinians and 13...
The Daily Express front page today (image shown) declaring that ‘Now Muslims demand: Give us full Shari’a law’, would be laughably stupid if it wasn’t just the sort of pernicious nonsense that fuels the extremists of the English Defence League and the Stop the Islamisation of Europe...
Newspapers portraying fringe activists as mainstream commentators and inciting community tensions as a consequence, as with today’s Daily Express front page, is not the lowest journalism will sink it seems in light of this investigation on journalists cross-checking stories for veracity...
The Jewish Chronicle last week printed news of a Scottish teenager who has been ordered to pay compensation to the United Hebrew Congregation in Edinburgh after smashing the synagogue windows with a baseball bat in an attack motivated by religious hatred. Junaid Javed caused damage to the...
Rounding off the party conference season, David Cameron delivered his keynote speech to the Conservative party conference yesterday. Read the speech in full here. You can send your comments on the speech to the Conservative party leader at [email protected].
The Press Complaints Commission has adopted three revisions to the Editor’s Code of Practice. The Code forms the basis of self-regulation of the British press and is enforced by the PCC. The changes will take effect on 19th October 2009. The revisions are highlighted below. The Code as it...
