Scottish Transport Secretary Humza Yousaf is calling on a Labour councillor to resign after he made an Islamophobic comment about the MSP. Dumfries and Galloway councillor Jim Dempster has been
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A charity has urged Twitter to do more to help disabled users report hate speech against them on the site, claiming it remained too difficult to report disability-related abuse. Muscular
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Fear of hostility has stopped nearly one in three disabled people from going out in their local area, according to new research. A poll of 1,609 disabled adults in the
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More than 400,000 people have been placed on a police “vulnerable persons” database, an investigation has found. Officers add people they encounter at incidents to the Interim Vulnerable Persons Database
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Amnesty International is calling for a review of hate crime laws and improvements in training for police on how to deal with the offences. The group says the measures are
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Britain is “flat-lining” on key measures of social progress compared to other developed nations, according to a new international study. And the 2017 Social Progress Index identified a “correlation” between
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An attack on a group of worshippers near a mosque by a man in a white van is being treated as terrorism, police said. One man died after the driver,
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A nursery worker was slashed by three women who attacked her in the street while shouting “Allah”, her colleague has said. The white woman, who is in her 30s, was
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Family members of terror victims including Lee Rigby and Jo Cox have united for a campaign in defiance against those responsible for the likes of the London and Manchester attacks.
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Theresa May’s focus on cutting immigration feeds the “poisonous lie” that migrants are a drain on the country and leads to people “being beaten within an inch of their lives”
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