Witnesses to last weekend’s demonstration against the English Defence League in Bolton reported deeply disturbing police operational tactics. Greater Manchester Police sought to stymie the Unite Against Fascism counter-demonstration with aggression and brutality, whilst allowing the racist EDL to rally without constraint.
It may be that we have grown so accustomed to police violence on demonstrations [...]
The media union Bectu has produced a guide to the BNP’s publicly declared policies, based on excerpts from the BNP’s recent election manifestos.
The documents complements the NUJ’s reportingthebnp.org website.
Reading the guide, one is struck by the underlying growl of race hatred – despite the fact that these are public documents, and therefore do not represent [...]
How should the media respond to the BNP? Since Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time last October the question is at last being debated.
Some insist that if we ignore them they’ll just go away. Andrew Gilligan put this case in the Telegraph last month: “The BNP is not a serious party. The main danger is [...]
Sunny Hundal writes on Comment is Free:
There was a brilliant column by Johann Hari a few years ago about his experience of appearing on a Sky News programme hosted by newspaper columnist Richard Littlejohn. Having admitted he didn’t know how much an asylum seeker got in benefits, Littlejohn screeched at Hari: “It’s people like [...]
James Macintyre writes at his News Statesman blog:
Last night, a lively rally took place at the Amnesty International headquarters in east London to launch a pressure group called Expose, aimed at sharpening media scrutiny of the British National Party.
The organisation, whose work-in-progress website is here, and of which I am a founding member, owes its [...]
