The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has today delivered a speech at the Royal United Services Institute on ‘Our response to the terrorist threat’. The Home Secretary spoke on the security threats facing the UK, its wider trend and home grown terrorism. She spoke on how the...
The coalition government is locked in a battle within its own ranks and with the security establishment over the future of control orders and the 28-day detention without trial counter terrorism measures. The Observer reported that a letter from Liberal Democrats to the PM, David Cameron, warned...
The Independent today reports on the release of figures from the Office of National Statistics on the most popular baby names in England and Wales in 2009. The paper headlines the article ‘Oliver, meet Olivia’, reflecting the most popular names in the two categories. While the Daily...
ENGAGE has written a response to the Review of Counter-terrorism and Security Powers currently being undertaken by the Home Office. You can read the ENGAGE response here. The scope of the review includes the use of stop and search powers under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act. The use of stop and...
The PM, David Cameron, yesterday delivered a statement to the House on the Strategic Defence and Security Review. He detailed changes in four areas that, he argued, signalled a “step change in the way we protect this country’s security interests.” The four areas the PM spoke of are the...
The Evening Standard reports that London’s deputy mayor, Kit Malthouse, has called for a public debate on the value of terror alerts, saying, “such alerts, and Britain’s official threat level warning, risked handing victory to the terrorists by spreading fear and confusion among the...
Think tank Demos has released a new publication on the ‘radicalising multiplier’ effect of conspiracy theories and the use made of them by extremist groups. The report ‘The power of unreason: conspiracy theories, extremism and counter-terrorism’ is ‘an analysis of conspiracy theories...
This briefing is a call for the establishment of an All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia tasked with executing ECRI’s recommendations on monitoring and challenging intolerance and discrimination against Muslims through a ‘regular and even closer process of consultation with...
The Home Secretary has been asked to consider a ban on the planned march in Bradford by the English Defence League over the August bank holiday weekend. Static demonstrations in the UK cannot be prevented – assured as a fundamental right of freedom of association in any democracy – but the...
Primary schools in the north London borough of Harrow are being offered the ‘chance to serve only halal meat‘ on their menus, reports the BBC. According to the BBC, nine secondary schools in Harrow already provide pupils with halal meat in a scheme that has been running for two years.
