Pupils at Bolton Muslim Girls School have concluded their voting for two seats up for election in the UK Youth Parliament. The UK Youth Parliament has around 500 elected members drawn from Local Education Authority jurisdictions across the country.
It is a sad day for journalism when media professionals resort to taking their cues from blog sites that devote themselves to peddling misinformation and biased comment. Sky News’ foreign affairs editor, Tim Marshall, writing about Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell’s disclosure that the...
The scenes of a tiny group of Muslim protestors – perhaps a more apt term would be ‘hooligans’ who appear to be former members of al-Muhajiroun – disrupting the parade of the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Anglian Regiment in Luton, marking their return from Iraq, are...
Policy Exchange has today published another report, ‘Choosing Our Friends Wisely‘, co-authored by the ‘ex-Islamist’ Shiraz Maher (pictured) in which it propagates an apolitical Muslim identity in Britain by denigrating Muslims for whom Islam remains a comprehensive guide...
The Jewish Chronicle today reports that the Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said that the government is ‘still considering evidence’ relating to the possible exclusion of the Lebanese journalist Ibrahim al-Musawi from visiting the UK later this month.
{youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1GrdTakvl8} Hat-tip: Lenin
This month’s edition of the British Medical Journal includes a revealing item by the writer and broadcaster Karl Sabbagh (pictured) in which he looks back on an incident in 2004 when the BMJ printed an article that was critical of Israel and examines the huge number of hostile...
Many of you will know Mark Steel as an exceptionally witty writer for the Independent. Unfortunately, The Independent refused to publish his column this week because as Mark says ‘they weren’t overly keen on the issue I was writing about’. And what was that issue?
The Justice Secretary Jack Straw has exercised a veto against the decision of the Information Tribunal which earlier ruled that the minutes of the Cabinet meetings of 13 and 17 March 2003 on the Iraq War should be immediately released to the public. The minutes of the meetings have been blocked...
Worcester City Council approved a proposal to twin the city with Gaza as a ‘humanitarian gesture’. Councillor Alan Amos who proposed the move said, “We are linking with the people [of Gaza], reaching out to these women and children and men who have been through so much.”
