A man arrested in January over his burning the Qur’an in Carlisle city centre during an ‘anti-Islamic rant’ has been charged with “religiously aggravated harassment and theft of the [Qur’an]”, according to BBC News. He is due to appear at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court on...
The Independent reported yesterday, “A commission will be set up within days to consider whether the Government should bring in a ‘British Bill of Rights’ following mounting controversy over rulings by the European Court of Human Rights.” “The move will delight Conservative MPs,...
Guramit Singh, one of the leaders of the extremist group, the English Defence League, “will face no further police action” after being arrested following a public hate-filled rant during an EDL protest in Peterborough in December. From the Peterborough Evening Telegraph:“Guramit Singh...
Mark Steel is at his finest writing in the Independent today. His comments provide food for thought for the current government, given David Cameron’s recent tour of the Middle East with eight of Britain’s leading weapons manufacturers. Below are short excerpts from his article, which you can...
The tabloid outrage over the £50 fine received by Emdadur Choudhury continues today via a comment piece by Chris Roycroft-Davis in the Daily Express. And, perhaps not surprisingly, his arguments are littered with the same inconsistencies and holes that one may have come to expect from a Daily...
Andrew Stunell, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government was yesterday asked what payments the DCLG had made to the Community Development Foundation in relation to the prevention of extremism since its inception, as well as payments made to the Foundation and...
A building in Ipswich which had been set to be transformed in to a Muslim-run community centre was set on fire Monday night in a ‘deliberate’ attack. A local news website reports: “Fire investigators are ‘99 per cent sure’ that a blaze which ripped through a church in Ipswich was...
Further embarrassing details have emerged regarding the relationship between the UK and Libya, in addition to the arming of the Libyan government by the UK and its subsequent suspected use of those arms by the Libyan regime to suppress popular uprisings in the country. Human rights lawyer,...
The fine of £50 handed to Emdadur Choudhury, one of the men who burnt poppies on Remembrance Day last year, has received widespread attention both from national (Daily Mail, Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Star, the Guardian) and local media (Evening Standard, East London Advertiser, Liverpool...
Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has ‘upgraded’ the status of the Palestinian delegation in the UK to that of a full diplomatic mission. From the Guardian: “William Hague said that Britain had upgraded the status of Palestinian diplomats in the UK, in a largely symbolic move aimed at...
