Matt Hancock finally addressed the issue directly as he was repeatedly grilled on the allegations from the maverick former No10 chief at a Downing Street briefing this evening.
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As the debate on Islam and Islamism rages on in France, so do occasional acts of violence directed at the country’s Muslim minority such as twoincidents on 4 and 24 April. There have also been letters from retired and active military officers, threatening – or warning about – an impending civil war. Then there is the anxiety caused by the growing popularity of Marine Le Pen ahead of the 2022 presidential election, which President Macron hopes to counter with policies to curb what he calls “Islamist separatism”.
Alongside these events, the critique of secularism (
laïcité) rages on in academic circles. Having been thrashed in recent decades by postmodernist and multiculturalist thinking, exemplified in Michel Foucault’s praising of the Iranian Revolution, secularism is often portrayed as restricting the freedom of religion, particularly of Muslim minorities in Europe. It is accused of contributing to the rise of radical Islamism – even th
He was like a shopping trolley smashing from one side of the aisle to the other : Cummings says hit and hope PM rejected pleas from Whitty and Vallance for a second circuit breaker lockdown in September and blamed them for last March s restrictions
Dominic Cummings has given a long-awaited evidence session before committee of MPs on coronavirus
He said government fell disastrously short on response to pandemic and apologised for his role in failure
Ex-aide said tens of thousands of people died who didn t need to die due to the failures of the government
He accused Boris Johnson of dismissing coronavirus as a scare story like Swine Flu as late as February
GCHQ’s bulk interception of communications data, including data about telephone calls and emails of UK citizens unlawfully breached privacy rights of UK citizens, the European Court of Human Rights ruled today. The court found that the UK’s regime for interception bulk communications data and for obtaining data from phone and internet companies breached citizens rights to privacy. The decision follows an eight-year legal battle by 11 NGOs, including Liberty, Privacy International and Amnesty. They brought the case in the wake of revelations of the UK’s involvement in mass surveillance following the leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.