Extreme-Right politics in United Kingdom
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Big gains for BNP in local elections
In the May municipal elections, the BNP increased its total number of local authority seats from twenty to fifty-two - on eighteen councils.
1 June 2006 (77 words)
Anti-immigrant pressure group highlights 'arranged marriages'
The right-wing pressure group Migration Watch argues that strict limits on arranged marriages should be introduced to protect Britain from the creation of racial ghettos.
8 January 2006 (147 words)
Racism termed 'the new terrorism' in Northern Ireland
Community leaders in Northern Ireland have warned that racism is threatening to replace terrorism in a rising tide of attacks and incidents on immigrant workers and asylum seekers.
18 October 2004 (336 words)
Traveller child killed, but police stay silent on racism motive
Johnny Delaney, a 15-year-old member of a traveller family was left to die in the middle of a playing field in Ellesmere Port.
29 July 2003 (85 words)
Racism and the courts
Oldham 'race riot' update: light sentences for neo-Nazis
29 July 2003 (189 words)
Focus on Northern Ireland
There is increasing evidence that racial violence in Northern Ireland is being co-ordinated by white supremacist movements *
29 July 2003 (919 words)
Racial violence and the war aftermath
According to a report in the Guardian, David Blunkett, home secretary, declared that attacks on ethnic minorities had, against expectation, actually fallen during the war on Iraq.
29 July 2003 (507 words)
Racism in football
FA under pressure to act
29 July 2003 (281 words)
The BNP in the May local elections
The extreme-right British National Party (BNP) contested a record 221 seats in the May local elections, and now holds sixteen seats.
30 June 2003 (683 words)
Anti-refugee violence
Riot against refugees in Wales
30 June 2003 (620 words)
North London synagogue attacked
Vandals attacked a Finsbury Park synagogue in one of the worst anti-Semitic attacks in recent years.
1 August 2002 (103 words)
Christian school teaches right-wing creationist theories
The government policy of funding for faith schools has been criticised after it was revealed that the Emmanuel City Technology College in Gateshead is teaching creationism - that human origins are (relatively) recent and divine - as opposed to scientific evolution, to explain our origins.
1 August 2002 (125 words)
Neo-Nazi BNP party gains in May local elections
In local elections in May, a neo-Nazi party scored the best result for an extreme-Right party since the 1970s.
1 August 2002 (258 words)
Blair fights far-Right with tough asylum measures
Following Jean Marie Le Pen's success in the French presidential elections, as well as the shock Dutch election results, the prime minister Tony Blair expressed the view that the far-Right can only be countered by taking on the electorate's fears over immigration and asylum.
1 August 2002 (455 words)
Racist attacks in Greater Manchester
Armed men attack asylum accommodation
1 January 2002 (266 words)
Evictions against xeno-racist neighbours
In January, Bradford council started eviction proceedings against a group of residents accused of subjecting six families from eastern Europe to an 'appalling' hate campaign.
1 January 2002 (41 words)
Spotlight on criminal justice system and racial motivation
Firsat Dag murderer jailed for life
1 January 2002 (309 words)
New murder inquiry opened as police acknowledge racial motivation
Jay Abatan died two years ago in Brighton, Sussex.
1 April 2001 (119 words)
Racial motivation investigated after more killings and attacks
London - Algerian businessman killed
1 April 2001 (174 words)
Popular campaigns against asylum dispersal
Rotherham council refuses to back asylum hostel
1 April 2001 (566 words)
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