Paul Richards, former political advisor to the disgraced MP, Hazel Blears, blathers again in the Jewish Chronicle. This week his target is Azad Ali, whom ENGAGE earlier reported has been vindicated in a Civil Service investigation of any wrongdoing and reinstated to his post at HM Treasury....
Human Rights Watch comments on President Sarkozy’s remarks on the burqa saying that ‘a legal ban in Europe on the wearing of the burqa in public life would be just as much a violation of the rights of those women who wish to wear it as is the forcing of the veil on those […]
Dina Al Jnidi, the wife of Mahmoud Abu Rideh (pictured), a suspect detained on secret evidence and kept under a control order, writes a harrowing piece in The Independent today on the injustices of detention without charge, secret evidence, the control order regime and the trauma inflicted on an...
Transcripts of the FBI’s interviews with the former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, following his capture by invading US Forces, have been released under a Freedom of Information request and uploaded on the US National Security Archive website.
Amnesty International has released a report today on Israel’s conduct in war during the savage bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip in December 2008 – January 2009. Amnesty argues in the report, ‘Operation ‘CAST LEAD’: 22 Days of Death and Destruction’, that the Israeli...
The Socialist Worker carries a story on recent court cases involving hate crimes targetting non White Britons and shows just how far right wing extremists are prepared to go to advance their rabidly racist agenda. ‘Four recent court cases in different parts of Britain shed some light on what...
The BBC One Show poses the question ‘Should schools allow teachers to wear full-face veils?’ It follows on from comments made by David Cameron and reported in the Daily Express yesterday. The paper misleadingly titled the story ‘Cameron backs ban on burkhas’, a throwback to its...
Helen Martin in The Scotsman commenting on the burqa and equality: ‘If we are going to rank clothes by offensiveness I would put fat girls in crop tops and low slung minis or sausage-skin jeans way above the burkha. . . which is not to say I don’t find them both equally ridiculous.
Setting a new low for publications lacking in academic rigour, Civitas produces another questionable report by Denis MacEoin entitled: ‘Sharia Law or ‘One Law For All’? The report is covered extensively in today’s press (Daily Mail, Daily Express, Telegraph), both in news...
The Guardian reports today on the challenge the BNP is presenting to extant race hate legislation with the Crown Prosecution Service unable to prosecute the party for leaflets (pictured) that are overtly racist but which fall short of the requirements of the law on incitement to racial hatred....
