The Independent at the weekend published a selection of letters from individuals responding to the BNP leader, Nick Griffin’s appearance on BBC1’s Question Time programme last Thursday, including this one from a Muslim viewer: ‘As a British-born Asian I was hugely reassured and impressed with...
Kanishk Tharoor (pictured), associate editor of OpenDemocracy, penned a column for the Independent on Sunday on multiculturalism in Britain and Europe and the far right. He writes: ‘…in general, British society has handled (and continues to handle) the cultural convulsions shaking Europe in...
British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, spoke today at the International Institute for Strategic Studies on the topic of ‘A Strong Britain in a Strong Europe’. His speech can be read in full here, with excerpts below: ‘European foreign policy has grown up in fits and starts over a...
Melanie Phillips (pictured) explains the BNP’s popularity in her Spectator blog as being the result of ‘the threat from Islamic supremacism and the concern of the disenfranchised white voters that the political establishment is supinely going along with the progressive Islamisation of...
If you missed BBC Question Time programme last night with Nick Griffin you can catch it on BBC iPlayer, here. You can contact the BBC with your comments/complaints on views expressed in the programme by phone – 03700 100 222 – or via the online complaints form here.
Read the speech by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, John Denham, to Churches Together in Britain and Ireland delivered on Monday, here. Excerpts from the speech are copied below: “As Secretary of State for Communities, I am responsible for the Government’s...
Progress Online – a New Labour pressure group – has issued an apology to Sir Iqbal Sacranie (pictured), former secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain and current Chairman of Muslim Aid, for an article written by Paul Richards in August 2009, in which he claimed: ‘…you...
Columnists Gary Younge (pictured left, The Guardian) and Steve Richards (pictured right, The Independent) comment on the political trajectory that has led to us to the point where the leader of the racist BNP, Nick Griffin, is able to appear on BBC1’s Question Time programme. Younge...
Symon Hill of Ekklesia (pictured), comments on the Daily Express front page last week and the newspaper’s proclivity for histrionics and encouraging anti-Muslim prejudice. He writes: ‘The Daily Express has turned into the modern equivalent of those people who used to walk around wearing...
Inayat Bunglawala, in his latest Comment is Free posting has proposed holding a counter-demonstration against the provocative antics of Al-Muhajiroun and Islam4UK’s proposed march on Saturday October 31st, which featured on the Daily Express front page last week, at the end of this month. He...
