Our Kingdom, part of the OpenDemocracy network, carries a piece by Eric Randolph, editor at Complex Terrain Lab, on the government’s Contest 2 strategy and the perils of handling social cohesion within counter terrorism. Randolph writes; ‘The new Contest strategy draws a line between...
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, took time out of the Cabinet meeting schedule last week to meet with Muslims in Scotland. He met with senior Muslims at Glasgow Central mosque and with younger Scottish Muslims at an event organised by the Youth Community Support Agency. The Foreign...
Jeremy Bowen, (pictured), Middle East Editor for the BBC, whose diary entries during the Israeli attacks on Gaza earlier this year brought home the truly horrifying nature of events unfolding in the region, has been rapped by the Editorial Standards Committee (ESC), part of the BBC Trust....
George Galloway MP has revealed details of difficulties being experienced by the Viva Palestina initiative in a letter addressed to the Charity Commission. Galloway, who travelled to Gaza last month with British Muslims and a convoy of vehicles loaded with aid, has written to the Commission...
Both the Independent and The Times covered the story of Taj Hargey winning compensation last week over libellous remarks printed in the Muslim Weekly newspaper. The Indy ran the story under the headline, ‘The imam who took on the ‘Muslim McCarthyists’’, and The Times, offering...
Harry’s Place has as its motto the Orwellian line ‘Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.’ Orwell’s observation that ‘Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful … and to give an appearance of solidity...
Harry’s Place has as its motto the Orwellian line ‘Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.’ Orwell’s observation that ‘Political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful … and to give an appearance of solidity...
The London Muslim Centre was one of the locations at which Tower Hamlets Council conducted its ‘You Decide!’ consultation. The ‘You Decide’ campaign is designed to involve local residents in council decision making through participation in their Local Area Partnership...
Andy Hull and Ian Kearns of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) reflect on the shortcomings of the recommendations made in Policy Exchange’s report, ‘Choosing our friends wisely’.
Andrew Alexander in a column in the Daily Mail today asks readers to imagine what it must be like to be a young Palestinian. ‘Suppose that you are a young man living in Gaza, dominated by refugees or their descendants whose original homeland was what is now Israel. You may well have been...
