An ICM poll has found that over a quarter of people (28 per cent) who use a racial slur at someone due to their race is not a hate crime. The same number also thinks that hate crime laws are an attack on freedom of speech in the UK. Additionally ten ...
Dr Nigel Mellor is a bit confused about the revolving door for actors in cop dramas We’ve got a severe case of CSI : Crime Series Interference. Unfortunately our recorder can only handle one show at a time, which means we watch one, save one, get one on catch up ...
"V for Vendetta" (CC BY 2.0) by hawken king Cybercrime is everywhere, it targets everyone and its threat is ever present. The only surprise is that we hear so little about it, but that is changing. The regularity with which high-profile websites and organisations are being hacked should be concerning, ...
There has been a huge rise in race related hate crime in the capital since Brexit. The worrying rise has led to over 400 people suspected of carrying out these horrific acts. Police chiefs have laid the blame for these attacks squarely at the EU referendum result. Hate crime is ...
Owen Jones has walked out of a Sky News interview after a heated discussion over the LGBT hate crimes in Orlando. The outspoken Jones was disgusted after presenter Mark Longhurst told him people should "delineate" between Islamist terror and homophobia after the attack which killed 50 at gay Florida nightclub ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A damning report has just been released which has revealed the harsh effects of benefit cuts on a community. The research has brought to light the every day struggles that benefit sanctions bring on people and their family, pushing them into crime and causing serious ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A video posted online which shows a dog making a Nazi salute in front of image of Adolf Hitler may lead to an arrest for its owner. The man a 28-year-old Markus Meechan from North Lanarkshire, now faces hate crime charges due to the nature ...
The number of crimes linked to dating apps Tinder and Grindr has increased seven fold in two years, according to new statistics. Police in England and Wales received more than 400 reports of crimes where Grindr and Tinder was mentioned in the year up to October 2015. That compares to ...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent The current, ongoing crisis in Ukraine is the most devastating manifestation of East vs West tensions seen since the Cold War era. The Iron Curtain that now runs along the East of Ukraine already bores a physical scar since the annexation of Crimea by Russia on ...