ENGAGE has written to the Home Secretary, Alan Johnson, concerning the Guardian story at the weekend ‘Communities fear project to counter extremism is not what it seems’, which disloses surveillance activity being run under the cover of the Prevent programme. The letter states: ‘An...
The Home Secretary, Alan Johnson (pictured), has written to The Guardian responding to the story printed in the paper on Saturday about the use of the Prevent programme to spy on British Muslims. The Home Secretary writes: ‘Your article (Anti-terrorism strategy ‘spies on innocent...
Secretary of State for Wales, Peter Hain (pictured), has written to the BBC in a last minute attempt to reverse the corporation’s decision to invite BNP leader Nick Griffin, onto BBC1’s Question Time programme this Thursday. In a letter to BBC Director General Mark Thompson, Hain called...
The Guardian today prints a number of worrying news stories about the government’s Prevent agenda which they say is now being used to spy on Muslims who are not suspected of involvement in terrorism and also to collect information on sexual activities. As an editorial in the Guardian...
The Press Complaints Commission has adopted three revisions to the Editor’s Code of Practice. The Code forms the basis of self-regulation of the British press and is enforced by the PCC. The changes will take effect on 19th October 2009. The revisions are highlighted below. The Code as it...
Martin ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ Bright, political editor of the Jewish Chronicle, offers more thoughts on Government engagement with Muslim groups in this week’s JC. Bright (pictured alongside Ed Husain) writes about the Home Office/Foreign Office-funded stooge body the...
ENGAGE have written a short letter to the Jewish Chronicle concerning a story printed in last week’s edition of the paper about the controversial submission by the Board of Deputies of British Jews to the Prevent inquiry and its conditions for Government engaging with the Muslim Council...
The Sunday Herald yesterday reported that Strathclyde police will oppose a planned demonstration in November by the Scottish Defence League (the Scottish arm of the English Defence League) if the event is intended to stir up racial hatred. The paper reports that ‘Strathclyde Police are ready...
Martin ‘The Great Koran Con Trick’ Bright interviews John Denham, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, reviews the IPPR’s ‘Building Bridges, Not Walls, report, and comments on the government’s policy on engaging with Muslim groups, in this week’s Jewish...
There’s a further article in the Jewish Chronicle this week which is disconcerting. The paper reports that the Board of Deputies of British Jews (BoD) has, in its joint submission with the Community Security Trust to the Communities and Local Government Inquiry into ‘Prevent’, said that:...
