Mike Waite, Head of Community Engagement and Cohesion at Burnley Council and author of the newly published ‘Diversity and Common Citizenship’, contributes a blog post to The Guardian on how community cohesion can be enhanced through direct communication and dialogue. He writes: ‘The...
The Youth Citizenship Commission’s (YCC) consultation, ‘Old Enough to Make a Mark?’, on the lowering of the voting age to 16, has received widespread support from respondents. The consultation received responses from 488 individuals and organisations of which 66% backed reform of the...
The European elections will take place on Thursday 4th June with the British electorate voting for 72 MEPs to represent their electoral region in the European Parliament. In total, 500 million Europeans will be eligible to cast their votes from June 4th – 7th voting in the 736 MEPs that will...
Matthew Norman in The Independent writes on the abysmal treatment of the Pakistani nationals recently arrested in the ‘Easter bomb plot’ and later released, only to be handed over to the UK Border Agency. Norman ponders on the symmetry of burying one crisis by offloading another. He...
Professor Roy Greenslade (pictured) on his Media blog at The Guardian draws our attention to an important development in media convergence as The Sun newspaper launches a radio show presented by Jon Gaunt via its online newspaper site. SunTalk, which was launched this week, embeds a radio show...
Adrian Hamilton in The Independent comments on the infantile conduct of the Western diplomats who walked out during President Ahmadinejad’s speech at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva earlier this week. He writes: ‘Read Ahmadinejad’s address at the UN conference on racism in...
Proposed plans by Muslims in Lichfield to build a mosque in the city to serve its growing Muslim community, have provoked the creation of a Facebook campaign against the bid. A Muslim businessman, Abdus Salam, at the centre of the organised effort to submit plans for a mosque to be built in the...
The invitation extended by a former Labour Minister and now independent MP, Clare Short, to Khalid Mish’al, head of Hamas’ political bureau, to address British MPs via a video link has predictably been criticized by the Foreign Office and Israel. The Independent cites a Foreign Office...
Media Workers Against the War (MWAW) are urging people appalled by the BBC Trust’s treatment of the Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, to write in and condemn the corporation’s cowardly attempt to deflect criticism of its refusal to broadcast the DEC Appeal on Gaza by attacking Bowen. MWAW...
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has described the comments made at the UN anti-racism conference by the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Israel being a ‘racist state’ as ‘offensive, inflammatory and utterly unacceptable’. The Iranian president was speaking at the Durban...
