Opinion

Leading UK genocide charities Remembering Srebrenica, the Aegis Trust, the National Holocaust Centre and the Holocaust Survivors' Friendship Association have come together to collectively condemn the violence being carried out against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The tragic and shameful treatment of Rohingya Muslims, often described as the most persecuted minority in the world, has now escalated into a humanitarian crisis. The Rohingya people are facing severe discrimination, escalating violence, forced statelessness, and, as reported by the United Nations, ethnic cleansing....

Here we are again, no matter how much I scream to the educated LGBT organisations continue to commission misleading research which serves no real benefit to people of the LGBT community. This week Stonewall and YouGov research found that more than one in five LGBT people have experienced a hate crime or incident due to their sexual orientation or gender identity in the last 12 months, compared with 16 per cent in 2013. Cue the outcry in the national press, but...

“FGM is violence, child abuse and sexual assault  …and of course we handed out Vulva cupcakes” is not a phrase you hear every day. But of course, it isn’t every day you speak to Leyla Hussein. Leyla has been at the forefront of the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) for over a decade. Her willingness to talk candidly – and at times even humerously– about her experiences has played a key role in challenging the culture of silence around...

For all the hype Moggmania has garnered over the past few weeks it is perhaps surprising, given the political climate, how little of it revolved around his political stance. For most people Jacob Rees-Mogg did the thing that few other politicians dare do – he gave an honest account of himself and openly spoke his mind. Forget all the spin and the censored views that have become a key part of the Westminster machine over the years. Rees-Mogg was happy...

The hunger crises in Ethiopia and drought-stricken Somalia will escalate unless we invest more in addressing root causes, United Nations food agency chiefs say, Speaking at the conclusion of a four-day visit to Ethiopia the heads of the United Nations food agencies made a joint call for greater investment in long-term activities that strengthen people’s resilience to drought and the impacts of climate shocks. Back-to-back droughts have left at least 8.5 million people in Ethiopia in need of food aid. In...

Of all the people who sat back and unwittingly gobbled up reports of a Muslim woman adopting a Christian child this week I wonder how many saw a mother and a Samaritan when sensationalised, doctored pictures were splashed across the front pages of our national press. I had the same thought when figures in the Fear and HOPE 2017 showed a quarter of English people now think Islam is a dangerous religion that incites violence - how many have actually been...

There's a grand old romantic comedy, released on April Fool's Day in 1958 called Teacher's Pet. In one scene, Clark Gable playing a crusty newsman named Jim Gannon growls and sneers at Doris Day's journalism professor Erica Stone about the whole idea of journalism schools. 'The only way to learn about the fourth estate is with first-hand experience. In the school I graduated from there were no lectures without four letter words in them.' To which Professor Stone ripostes, 'Newspapers...

On Monday at 2:45, Hisham Al-Omeisy, a civil rights activist and documenter of Yemen’s often-ignored war, was taken from his family by armed guards loyal to the Houthis. Three years ago these people had swept into Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, and overthrown president Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s internationally recognised Government, seeking to secure military support from Arab Gulf states. Soon after, a Saudi-led coalition, which have led many to label this war as the Saudi Proxy War,  began a campaign in...

Writer David Wilson has penned this moving, angry message that everybody needs to read on the Government's welfare changes that have affected many Brits with disabilities like his son Ben Wilson:   By David Wilson The Government don't need a doctor to decide who is disabled. My son, Ben Wilson, is 44. He has had a lifetime of health problems. This is his story. He was three months old in 1973 when he was given his first formula of powdered...