The right-wing thinktank Policy Exchange has been forced into a humiliating climbdown over its report, ‘The Hijacking of British Islam’, for making allegations in the report that it now admits were unsubstantiated. In late 2007 Policy Exchange published the report, reported in the right-wing press without any further fact-checking, that around a quarter of Mosques and

The right-wing thinktank Policy Exchange has been forced into a humiliating climbdown over its report, 'The Hijacking of British Islam', for making allegations in the report that it now admits were unsubstantiated. In late 2007 Policy Exchange published the report, reported in the right-wing press without any further fact-checking, that around a quarter of Mosques and Muslim centres of t...

The Sun and the Daily Mail have taken down their reports of last year's dodgy Policy Exchange report which purported to show evidence of extremism in British mosques. It was exposed by Newsnight that several of the receipts used in...

Trafigura, the multinational oil company that got it lawyers, those most ethical of legal eagles Carter-Ruck, to put a super-injunction on the UK press and, inadvertantly or not, Parliament have threatened to sue the BBC about a Newsnight report. That report has now gone. It’s been pulled. Below is the Newsnight report: The is also a .pdf

For obvious political reasons, David Cameron had to run a mile from Policy Exchange’s report on northern cities. But as John Rentoul argues in an excellent column in The Independent on Sunday, the report was actually right about certain things:  the striking thing about the Policy Exchange report is that its analysis is broadly correct. It specifically said that Liverpool, Roc...

Another day, another headline on the cost of green policies. This time thanks to a new report from Policy Exchange as part of their ‘Greener, Cheaper’ workstream. With customers feeling the pinch from high energy bills, Chris Huhne continues to have his work cut out to defend green policy spending. Problems with Policy Exchange’s analysis,

Well done to Nick Clegg for becoming the first major party leader to take on Policy Exchange over its unscrupulous approach to Islam. (hat-tip Sunny Hundal) In a statement carried by the PoliticsHome website on Friday, Clegg criticised the think-tank over for a privately circulated briefing against the Sunday's Global Peace and Unity event in London. The Policy Exchange briefing I have seen seeks ...

Nicholas Watt is extraordinarily kind to today's Today's Tory Think Tank Twaddle, that'll be Policy Exchange. The TTT founded by the NUTS supporter Michael Gove MP with the Defrocked non-JP Lewis appointing and now Cam advisor Nick Boles, currently directed by the Boris Chief Political Advisor Anthony Browne. Not to forget the anti-Irish, anti-Islam, anti-Bendy Bus, anti-Newsnight p...

Read the full exchange between Theresa May and BBC Newsnight interviewer Jeremy Paxman in which the home secretary repeatedly refused to disclose whether she knew in advance about George Osborne's child benefit announcement.

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