Roshan Muhammed Salih, Head of News at Press TV, contributes his thoughts about the Iranian-funded channel on the Guardian’s Comment is Free website, and discusses the recent campaign to undermine it. He writes: ‘The past few weeks have seen a British media campaign against the supposed...
The Daily Express and the Telegraph yesterday both featured articles on the report, ‘What Makes a Good City’, which has been presented to the Church of England General Synod this week. The report argues that ‘since the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, ministers have become preoccupied with...
We’ve already noted the anomaly of media disinterest in something as alarming as a cache of weapons being found during the search and arrests of suspected far right extremists in the UK. And even as Commander Shaun Sawyer tells us that the police fear an attack of ‘spectacular’ proportions...
There’s an interesting comment piece on Ynet, on the Israeli government’s plans to pay ‘talkbackers’ to post pro-Israel responses on websites worldwide. ‘A total of roughly $150,000 will be earmarked to the establishment of an “Internet warfare” squad’‘. ‘The sad...
Yasmin Alibhai Brown picks up in the Independent today where Rahila Gupta left off, on the burqa debate. She writes: ‘I am a Shia Muslim and I abhor the burqa. I am offended by the unchallenged presumption that women covering their heads and bodies and now faces are more pious and true than am...
The Mail on Sunday has today printed an apology to Inayat Bunglawala – Advisor on Research and Policy at ENGAGE – following a scurrilous story it ran about him on March 15 2009. The MoS apology – which also appears on the MoS website – reads as follows:
Channel 4 News featured a news item yesterday (click on image to view) about the BNP’s foray into Europe and its attempts to build a far right bloc in the European Parliament to increase its budget for expenses and staff. The party leader, Nick Griffin, seeking European partners for the BNP,...
Alex Brummer, (pictured) Daily Mail City columnist, writes in the Jewish Chronicle this week on the work of ‘Just Journalism’, a pro-Israel organisation launched to ‘measure coverage of the Middle East in the UK media against various codes of conduct laid down by the BBC, Ofcom, the Press...
Following the remarks by French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, on establishing a commission to look into the banning of the burqa and niqab in France, AFP reports that the French government has now set up a special panel of 32 lawmakers to look into such a ban. At the first hearing of the...
{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoOwtPJNsAM} The English and Welsh Defence League demonstration in Birmingham last Saturday, captured in this Youtube video, featured demonstrators chanting ‘Muslims out!’. Not that this is surprising – Bartholomew’s Notes reveals that EDL and WDL...
