There’s coverage in the papers today on President Obama’s speech at the US State Department yesterday on the US response to the Arab Spring. President Obama set out to “talk about this change – the forces that are driving it and how we can respond in a way that advances our values and...
Priya Shetty in The Guardian’s Comment is Free writes on the Home Affairs select committee report on forced marriages arguing that women are often as culpable in the perpetuation of oppressive cultural practices, like forced marriages, as men who enforce codes of “honour” in minority...
Several newspapers today (Daily Mail, Daily Express and The Guardian) cover the release of “experimental” statistics by the Office for National Statistics on the ethnic breakdown of the 423 local authorities in England and Wales. From the Guardian: “The non-white British population of...
The Guardian and Daily Express both cover the Hate Crime in Scotland 2010 – 11 report released by the Crown Office and the Procurator Fiscal Service. The report contains figures relating to hate crimes in Scotland in the equality strands of race, religion, disability, and sexual orientation...
The Press Complaints Commission yesterday published its annual review for 2010. You can read the review, broken down by month, here. Key statistics for 2010 are outlined below: 7,000 – The PCC received well over 7,000 complaints in writing last year, although this figure includes multiple...
The Prince’s Trust have released a report today, “Broke, Not Broken: Tackling youth poverty and the aspiration gap”, on the importance of addressing social immobility in the UK and its impact on Britain’s youth. Professor David Blanchflower in his introduction to the report argues that...
The BBC programme “The Big Question” on Sunday asked “Does Britain have a problem with Muslims?” Watch the panel comprising Dame Anne Leslie, Maajid Nawaz, Director of the Quilliam Foundation; Salma Yaqoob, Respect party councilor at Birmingham Council; and Dr Taj Hargey of the Muslim...
The Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, David Anderson QC, has reported on “Operation Gird,” the name given to the Metropolitan Police’s action against six Muslim men who were accused of “a plot to kill the Pope.” Mr Anderson in the report released yesterday...
The Evening Gazette reports on public order arrests following a disturbance near the Jamia mosque in Darlington, County Durham involving individuals thought to be members of the English Defence League. From the paper:“Two Teessiders were arrested after a “large scale disorder” near...
The Home Affairs select committee, chaired by Keith Vaz MP, has published a report on Forced Marriages in which they call for sterner action against individuals who “force—or to participate in forcing—an individual to enter into marriage against their will.” The committee recommends the...
