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EDL founder Tommy Robinson's
writings were found | 0:00:26 | 0:00:27 | |
in Osborne's possession -
we'll ask him if he bears any | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
responsibility for the killing. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:34 | |
And we'll ask
if we are witnessing | 0:00:34 | 0:00:35 | |
a resurgence of the far right | 0:00:35 | 0:00:40 | |
Also tonight, religion in schools,
Ofsted chief Amanda Spielman's | 0:00:40 | 0:00:42 | |
comments have sparked
an angry debate. | 0:00:42 | 0:00:50 | |
She is playing divide and rule
politics with different faiths. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
We'll talk to Ms Spielman
and discuss whether extremism has | 0:00:56 | 0:00:58 | |
spun out of control in some areas. | 0:00:58 | 0:01:00 | |
Also tonight - darts, Formula One. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:01 | |
Will the boxing ring
girls be the next to go? | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
We'll debate whether
women should fight | 0:01:04 | 0:01:05 | |
for their right to bare arms
and legs and the rest. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:13 | |
Good evening. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:15 | |
Darren Osborne was convicted of
murder and attempted murder today, | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
after deliberately driving a van
at a group of Muslim men | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
near Finsbury Park mosque
in London last June, | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
killing father-of-six Makram Ali
and injuring nine others. | 0:01:22 | 0:01:30 | |
The CPS prosecuted the case
as a terrorist offence | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
because Osborne's actions
were in order to advance | 0:01:36 | 0:01:37 | |
a political purpose. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:39 | |
Commander Dean Haydon,
head of Scotland Yard's | 0:01:39 | 0:01:40 | |
counter-terrorism operation,
said the internet had played | 0:01:40 | 0:01:42 | |
a significant role in in fuelling
Osborne's "hate-filled agenda". | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
The trial heard that far-right
material online played a key part | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
in his radicalisation and,
in the lead-up to the June | 0:01:47 | 0:01:49 | |
attack, Osborne had searched online
for English Defence League founder | 0:01:49 | 0:01:51 | |
Tommy Robinson, and Britain First's
Jayda Fransen and Paul Golding. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
I'll be talking to Robinson
in a moment or two, but first | 0:01:54 | 0:01:57 | |
here is John Sweeney. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:05 | |
The final murder of the summer had
echoes of the other attacks. A | 0:02:07 | 0:02:17 | |
killer radicalised online. A vehicle
marooned on pedestrians. And, | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
driving it all, hate. This attack
was by a far right fanatic out to | 0:02:21 | 0:02:27 | |
kill Muslims. -- vehicle knocked
down pedestrians. Darren Osborne | 0:02:27 | 0:02:39 | |
appears to have found hate after
watching this, a BBC miniseries | 0:02:39 | 0:02:45 | |
about systematic child abuse in
Rochdale. He went on-line searching | 0:02:45 | 0:02:51 | |
for far right website and followed,
amongst others, Tommy Robinson, | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
former leader of the English Defence
League. In this pub, the night | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
before the attack, he wrote a note
condemning men hunt in packs preying | 0:02:59 | 0:03:07 | |
on our children. The court heard
evidence he had become brainwashed. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:14 | |
Darren Osborne, over four weeks in
the lead up to the attack, became, | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
in my mind, radicalised. It started
with him watching a TV documentary | 0:03:18 | 0:03:21 | |
drama in relation to six abuse in
Rochdale. That, we believe, was the | 0:03:21 | 0:03:27 | |
catalyst for the start of his
radicalisation. -- sex abuse in | 0:03:27 | 0:03:33 | |
Rochdale. His plan was to kill the
Labour Party leader at a | 0:03:33 | 0:03:39 | |
demonstration. The QC questioned,
were you hoping that you would have | 0:03:39 | 0:03:44 | |
an opportunity to attack Jeremy
Corbyn and kill him? | 0:03:44 | 0:03:50 | |
He could not get close to the
demonstration and drove around | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
London until he found another
target. This is the moment of | 0:04:03 | 0:04:08 | |
impact, when he drove into a crowd
near the Finsbury Park mosque. | 0:04:08 | 0:04:13 | |
Darren Osborne has been convicted of
murder and attempted murder. Nine | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
people were injured in the attack.
Seven months on it is worth noting | 0:04:17 | 0:04:23 | |
one other commonality between the
fanatics of so-called Islamic State | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
and the far right, in their goal of
turning Britain apart they have | 0:04:26 | 0:04:32 | |
failed. -- caring Britain apart. | 0:04:32 | 0:04:36 | |
As you heard there, police have
commented on the speed | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
at which Osborne was radicalised. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:40 | |
The court heard he had been seeking
out far-right material online | 0:04:40 | 0:04:43 | |
in the weeks before he carried
out his attack. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
Among the material he read and saved
were tweets from the man | 0:04:45 | 0:04:48 | |
known as Tommy Robinson -
the former leader of | 0:04:48 | 0:04:50 | |
the English Defence League. | 0:04:50 | 0:04:51 | |
I spoke to Robinson
earlier and I asked him | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
if he accepted any responsibility
for the radicalisation | 0:04:53 | 0:04:55 | |
of Darren Osborne. | 0:04:55 | 0:05:01 | |
No, of course I don't. I'm insulted
you asking me that. What I cannot | 0:05:01 | 0:05:06 | |
understand is the narrative in the
media this week, every headline has | 0:05:06 | 0:05:09 | |
a picture of me. I did not know this
man, I don't know this man, I did | 0:05:09 | 0:05:15 | |
not direct message him, which is a
lie that has been put out on social | 0:05:15 | 0:05:19 | |
media. Not the BBC. Yes, on the BBC.
All of the media said I said Tim | 0:05:19 | 0:05:26 | |
direct messages on Twitter. That is
a lie. -- sent him direct messages. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:35 | |
I work for a media company in
Canada. The problem I have is that | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
when we are talking about what has
radicalised this man, we had 512 | 0:05:39 | 0:05:44 | |
people injured and children blown to
pieces. 48 injured, nine murdered. | 0:05:44 | 0:05:49 | |
49 injured and eight people
murdered. We had all of this in a | 0:05:49 | 0:05:53 | |
five-week barrier. You'd think what
everybody is trying to do is to make | 0:05:53 | 0:05:56 | |
it to the Mac that he was invited to
a silent march. There is evidence he | 0:05:56 | 0:06:04 | |
was looking you up a lot on the
Internet. -- make it down to the | 0:06:04 | 0:06:10 | |
fact he was. You tweeted, where was
the day of rage after terrorist | 0:06:10 | 0:06:18 | |
attacks, all I saw was lighted
candles. Emerson bombed our kids, we | 0:06:18 | 0:06:21 | |
were told not to look back in anger.
-- a Muslim bombed. Will you put a | 0:06:21 | 0:06:29 | |
screen shot of that? You have taken
it out of context. After Grenfell | 0:06:29 | 0:06:34 | |
Tower happened far left
organisations had a day of rage | 0:06:34 | 0:06:38 | |
planned. They had leaflets for it.
You have that leaflet. But you have | 0:06:38 | 0:06:44 | |
purposely left it out of it and you
are making it sound like I said | 0:06:44 | 0:06:48 | |
that. I was showing the hypocrisy in
this country. Would you have done is | 0:06:48 | 0:06:55 | |
misrepresent the truth of the tweet.
On purpose. When a Muslim bombed our | 0:06:55 | 0:07:01 | |
kids we were told not to look back
in anger, what was the purpose of | 0:07:01 | 0:07:05 | |
that? That was on the dashboard of
Darren Osborne's van when he | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
attacked. He wrote the reasons why
he done this. Why aren't we talking | 0:07:09 | 0:07:15 | |
about that? I'll tell you why. He
obsessively look you up online. That | 0:07:15 | 0:07:21 | |
is all I am saying. He wrote
terrorists marched through our | 0:07:21 | 0:07:26 | |
country today. There was a march.
You are the BBC News. You didn't | 0:07:26 | 0:07:29 | |
report on that March. Do you accept
there is a lot of hate speech about | 0:07:29 | 0:07:37 | |
Chris you didn't report | 0:07:37 | 0:07:38 | |
Do you take any responsibility for
that being hate speech? Do you think | 0:07:42 | 0:07:47 | |
it is? I'm asking you. You have
Muslims in this country calling for | 0:07:47 | 0:07:53 | |
the death of homosexuals. That is
hate speech. Me saying don't look | 0:07:53 | 0:07:57 | |
back in anger is not hate speech.
Why do you think that he obsessively | 0:07:57 | 0:08:03 | |
looked for you online? It is the
case that you were presenting in a | 0:08:03 | 0:08:09 | |
way that encouraged him to take
action against people. Absolutely | 0:08:09 | 0:08:17 | |
unbelievable you are saying that. 49
million people watched that video. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:23 | |
The reason why people were searching
for me is because I give them the | 0:08:23 | 0:08:26 | |
truth. Unlike you. | 0:08:26 | 0:08:32 | |
truth. Unlike you. Fact is, after he
attacked outside Finsbury Mosque. He | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
wrote a letter. In that letter he
quoted your tweet. No he didn't. It | 0:08:36 | 0:08:42 | |
was heard in court. For your
viewers, read what he said. He | 0:08:42 | 0:08:47 | |
quoted Sadiq Khan. He is a part and
parcel of living in a big city. He | 0:08:47 | 0:08:52 | |
quoted Jeremy Corbyn. He quoted you
in his letter. No, he didn't. We | 0:08:52 | 0:09:00 | |
were told not to look back in anger.
He said don't look back in anger. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:05 | |
The front page of the sun newspaper,
after the Manchester attack, was | 0:09:05 | 0:09:09 | |
don't look back in anger. He quoted
a national newspaper. Do you deny he | 0:09:09 | 0:09:15 | |
quoted you in anyway? He didn't
quote me. Why are you not looking at | 0:09:15 | 0:09:20 | |
the reasons. Why are you not looking
at the fact we have three massive | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
terrorist attacks. That is not what
this is about. This is the reason | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
why he has done it. It is about the
rise of far right mainstream. This | 0:09:27 | 0:09:36 | |
is unbelievable. He was radicalised
in four weeks. I'm embarrassed for | 0:09:36 | 0:09:43 | |
the BBC. We have three terrorist
attacks in quick succession. Rather | 0:09:43 | 0:09:46 | |
than talking about those and why he
reacted he told you why he reacted, | 0:09:46 | 0:09:51 | |
you want to put it on the fact that
I report the truth. Terrorist | 0:09:51 | 0:09:54 | |
attacks are appalling. You do not
think they are anything to do with | 0:09:54 | 0:09:59 | |
the reason why he done this? You
think it is because I said don't | 0:09:59 | 0:10:03 | |
look back in anger? I'm asking,
there are contributing factors, he | 0:10:03 | 0:10:09 | |
was radicalised online. His wife
said... The police said that he | 0:10:09 | 0:10:14 | |
obsessively looked at your, looked
for you online and quoted your | 0:10:14 | 0:10:19 | |
tweets. That's a fact. His wife said
he was radicalised after that BBC | 0:10:19 | 0:10:25 | |
documentary. Why don't you sit the
producer of that documentary down | 0:10:25 | 0:10:31 | |
and ask if he feels responsible? You
don't. Is what Darren Osborne did | 0:10:31 | 0:10:39 | |
appalling and reprehensible? Of
course, what sort of silly question | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
is that? He has knocked down in the
street. It also would the BBC is BBC | 0:10:42 | 0:10:47 | |
is doing is disgusting and
irresponsible as a media outlet. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:51 | |
Thanks very much. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:52 | |
Joining me now is Fiyaz Mughal,
who founded Measuring | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
Anti-Muslim Attacks -
a group which monitors anti-muslim | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
activity and supports
those affected by it. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:59 | |
Good evening. Do you think there is
growing concern about aggression on | 0:10:59 | 0:11:08 | |
the far right? Absolutely. Over the
last five years my group has been | 0:11:08 | 0:11:13 | |
clearly making the case that there
has been an enormous amount of | 0:11:13 | 0:11:17 | |
anti-Muslim hatred and anti-Muslim
material being pumped out by groups | 0:11:17 | 0:11:22 | |
and individuals, which has been on
the online space and easy to find. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
Much of this rhetoric, the issue of
calling Muslims generally | 0:11:25 | 0:11:29 | |
paedophiles, people who prey on
women, this generalisation, creates | 0:11:29 | 0:11:36 | |
mindsets which sadly we have seen
today to kill in our streets. When | 0:11:36 | 0:11:40 | |
these are put up online. And clearly
offensive. How quickly can you get | 0:11:40 | 0:11:46 | |
them down? We cannot get them down.
We've been having these discussions | 0:11:46 | 0:11:51 | |
with social media outlets for six
years. There is a lazy approach by | 0:11:51 | 0:11:57 | |
these agencies to remove materials.
They say free speech means counter | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
speech will flood out the negative
messages. They give this grandiose | 0:12:01 | 0:12:05 | |
view which is unrealistic. There
is... If you want to call it on both | 0:12:05 | 0:12:11 | |
sides of this divide, and it's a
horrible thing to say, but it isn't | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
all one-way traffic. It isn't. Tommy
Robinson is a result of anti-Muslim | 0:12:15 | 0:12:20 | |
extremism. He promotes division in
this country. He has the gall to sit | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
here and says he has nothing to do
with issues is a problem. Where do | 0:12:24 | 0:12:32 | |
you see it? On the online space,
posters, do you hear it on the | 0:12:32 | 0:12:37 | |
streets? Where do you think it is
most pervasive? In the online space. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:42 | |
Less so on the streets. The EDL's
back has been broken. That was | 0:12:42 | 0:12:47 | |
evident in 2012 when they fractured
and fragmented 2013. The online | 0:12:47 | 0:12:53 | |
space is toxic. Social media
companies are not providing | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
resources for counter speech. And
they are not listening. If they do | 0:12:57 | 0:13:02 | |
not take off material that is
causing fractures in our community | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
then there needs to be some redress
and measure to make them change | 0:13:05 | 0:13:09 | |
their macro behaviour. Given that
you say it has been six years since | 0:13:09 | 0:13:13 | |
you have been trying to have some
degree of responsibility with online | 0:13:13 | 0:13:18 | |
providers. -- change their
behaviour. What else can you do to | 0:13:18 | 0:13:22 | |
alter the atmosphere? To alter it we
need positive messaging. We need | 0:13:22 | 0:13:28 | |
good role models. We need positive
images of Muslims playing a positive | 0:13:28 | 0:13:32 | |
role in our country consistently. We
need fewer voices and less oxygen | 0:13:32 | 0:13:37 | |
given to people like Robinson and
his ilk who pour out of these | 0:13:37 | 0:13:42 | |
messages and take no responsibility
for the fractures and divisions they | 0:13:42 | 0:13:45 | |
cause. Those fractions and deep --
fractures and deep divisions, you | 0:13:45 | 0:13:50 | |
get them from all sectors of
society. How do you count it from | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
not just the far right, but the far
left, and different religious | 0:13:54 | 0:13:58 | |
extremists? Lots of work has been
done on the Islamist side. We tackle | 0:13:58 | 0:14:03 | |
this issue daily. What we are saying
is that what people like Robinson | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
and the fractures he creates. Thanks
very much indeed. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:12 | |
Theresa May met China's President Xi
today on the latest | 0:14:12 | 0:14:14 | |
stage of her trip. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:15 | |
Certain corners of the UK were
celebrating after the Prime Minister | 0:14:15 | 0:14:18 | |
used the trip to secure the Scotch
whisky trademark for another decade. | 0:14:18 | 0:14:21 | |
But away from trade,
it's been a week of politics | 0:14:21 | 0:14:25 | |
dominated by Brexit. | 0:14:25 | 0:14:27 | |
Today, battle lines were drawn
between London and Brussels | 0:14:27 | 0:14:29 | |
when Mrs May announced she would be
tough on migrants entering Britain | 0:14:29 | 0:14:32 | |
during the transition period. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:33 | |
But, tonight, the battle was closer
to home, as a row exploded | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
with her government. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:36 | |
Our political editor
Nick Watt is here. | 0:14:36 | 0:14:43 | |
Yet another round. Interestingly a
story in the EFTA saying Theresa | 0:14:43 | 0:14:48 | |
May's advisers are looking into
whether the UK could work up a | 0:14:48 | 0:14:53 | |
customs deal with the European Union
that would cover goods -- financial | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
Times. Downing Street saying this is
not going on. I spoke to a Brexit | 0:14:57 | 0:15:06 | |
Minister, Brexit leading minister
who said if you do that it is not a | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
coherent trade policy because you
could not sign your own trade deals | 0:15:10 | 0:15:13 | |
and this plays into the row about
the customs union and the fear among | 0:15:13 | 0:15:19 | |
Brexiteers that civil servants are
skewing evidence and reports to walk | 0:15:19 | 0:15:25 | |
ministers towards one conclusion
which is we have to stay in the | 0:15:25 | 0:15:29 | |
customs union. Brexit Minister Steve
Baker appeared in the Commons to | 0:15:29 | 0:15:34 | |
give some support to that view and
around the time he was speaking, Sir | 0:15:34 | 0:15:41 | |
Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet
Secretary, popped up on Twitter and | 0:15:41 | 0:15:44 | |
looks like he was responding to
something Steve Baker said when he | 0:15:44 | 0:15:48 | |
said civil servants are always
wrong. He said... | 0:15:48 | 0:16:02 | |
Steve Baker apologised this evening
for his comments in the House of | 0:16:06 | 0:16:10 | |
Commons today and indicated he had
sort of misquoted Charles Grant, the | 0:16:10 | 0:16:15 | |
director of the Centre For European
Reform who he said had given the | 0:16:15 | 0:16:20 | |
impression civil servants were
skewing things in the direction of | 0:16:20 | 0:16:23 | |
the customs union. This is what we
think is going on but what else is | 0:16:23 | 0:16:30 | |
happening behind the scenes? There
is real concern among Brexit | 0:16:30 | 0:16:37 | |
backbenchers and leaning ministers
that that leaked a BuzzFeed that | 0:16:37 | 0:16:44 | |
says UK civil servants as every
option in Brexit makes us poor, they | 0:16:44 | 0:16:47 | |
have two fears, one Eurosceptic Tory
said the civil service out of | 0:16:47 | 0:16:55 | |
control and doing their own thing or
has Theresa May given the authority | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
to do this and not telling anyone,
and this is what the Eurosceptic | 0:16:58 | 0:17:04 | |
Tory said, if this is what the Prime
Minister is doing, this is how you | 0:17:04 | 0:17:08 | |
kick off a civil war in one easy
step. Thanks. | 0:17:08 | 0:17:13 | |
Today, Ofsted's Chief Inspector
threw her full weight behind | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
the head teacher of a predominantly
Muslim state primary school | 0:17:15 | 0:17:19 | |
in London who banned the hijab
for girls under the age of eight - | 0:17:19 | 0:17:22 | |
a move that resulted
in the resignation of the chair | 0:17:22 | 0:17:25 | |
of governors who had originally
supported the ban. | 0:17:25 | 0:17:26 | |
Today in a speech at a Church
of England conference, | 0:17:26 | 0:17:29 | |
Amanda Spielman said that schools
had to pursue "muscular liberalism," | 0:17:29 | 0:17:32 | |
and that inspectors
are increasingly brought | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
into contact with those
who want to actively pervert | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
the purpose of education. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:39 | |
Strong words - but strong words too
from the Muslim Council | 0:17:39 | 0:17:42 | |
of Great Britain who called the ban
"appalling" and discriminatory. | 0:17:42 | 0:17:45 | |
Here's our political
editor Nick Watt. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:51 | |
It is one of the great European
debates. Just where should religion | 0:17:51 | 0:17:56 | |
and fit in our public spaces? The
secular state of France has a simple | 0:17:56 | 0:18:04 | |
view. No religious symbols in any
area associated with the state. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:08 | |
Across the channel and on the other
side of the spectrum Britain has | 0:18:08 | 0:18:14 | |
traditionally allowed religion a
place at the heart of its public | 0:18:14 | 0:18:18 | |
sphere, generally on its terms.
Close to one of England's grandest | 0:18:18 | 0:18:24 | |
cathedral is the Chief Inspector of
Schools declared neither view is | 0:18:24 | 0:18:28 | |
right today. Amanda Spielman hailed
the role of faith schools at a | 0:18:28 | 0:18:33 | |
tolerant society but told her
audience in London that those values | 0:18:33 | 0:18:39 | |
of respect and tolerance cannot be
used to place all belief beyond | 0:18:39 | 0:18:43 | |
criticism. Ofsted inspectors are
increasingly brought into contact | 0:18:43 | 0:18:50 | |
with those who want to actively
perverts the purpose of education | 0:18:50 | 0:18:55 | |
under the pretext of religious
belief they use education | 0:18:55 | 0:19:00 | |
institutions to narrow young
people'shorizons, and in the worst | 0:19:00 | 0:19:07 | |
cases to indoctrinate impressionable
minds with extremist ideology. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:19 | |
She added... The chief Inspector's
mornings were mainly aimed at | 0:19:19 | 0:19:24 | |
Islamic extremists although she has
concerns about intolerance in other | 0:19:24 | 0:19:28 | |
faiths. In her mind she believes it
is important to tackle extremist | 0:19:28 | 0:19:33 | |
ideology as well as extremist
violence. She has some sympathy for | 0:19:33 | 0:19:38 | |
Michael Gove's phrase about the
importance of draining the swamp and | 0:19:38 | 0:19:43 | |
not just beating back the crocodiles
that come close to the boat. The | 0:19:43 | 0:19:48 | |
former Education Secretary was
speaking in 2014 at the height of a | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
dispute with the Home Office in the
wake of the so-called Trojan horse | 0:19:52 | 0:19:58 | |
row about extremism in Birmingham
schools. Today Amanda Spielman | 0:19:58 | 0:20:03 | |
praised a London headteacher who try
to stop young girls from wearing the | 0:20:03 | 0:20:08 | |
hijab and she spoke of reticence
among some church schools to | 0:20:08 | 0:20:13 | |
challenge fundamentalist practices,
as she cited a Tower Hamlets school | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
that lost its outstanding rating in
2014 after failing to respond | 0:20:17 | 0:20:24 | |
adequately to warnings about
extremism. It means by making sure | 0:20:24 | 0:20:29 | |
being anxious to do the right thing
we do not do the wrong thing. We | 0:20:29 | 0:20:33 | |
have to make sure we have tolerance
and respect for all faiths in | 0:20:33 | 0:20:38 | |
schools but we can accidentally go
so far we find ourselves bringing | 0:20:38 | 0:20:44 | |
community tensions into schools. She
is recklessly playing divide and | 0:20:44 | 0:20:49 | |
rule politics with different faiths.
There are big questions. Also, it is | 0:20:49 | 0:20:54 | |
not just the divide and rule but the
singling out and demonisation of | 0:20:54 | 0:21:02 | |
Muslim communities that most of
third sector organisations are | 0:21:02 | 0:21:08 | |
uncomfortable with. Younger children
of all faiths and none will be | 0:21:08 | 0:21:13 | |
skipping, walking or dragging their
feet to school in the morning. | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
Little do they know they lie at the
heart of a passionate debate about | 0:21:16 | 0:21:21 | |
the values of their country. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:22 | |
Amanda Speilman is with me now. | 0:21:22 | 0:21:28 | |
Can I quote something from your
speech today, you said Ofsted | 0:21:28 | 0:21:34 | |
inspectors of increasingly brought
into contact with those who actively | 0:21:34 | 0:21:39 | |
perverts the purpose of education.
What do you mean? There are schools | 0:21:39 | 0:21:44 | |
in the state sector and independent
schools, where we find | 0:21:44 | 0:21:49 | |
unsatisfactory things being taught.
I have talked before about the kinds | 0:21:49 | 0:21:53 | |
of books, not just in libraries but
being taught from, encouraging | 0:21:53 | 0:21:59 | |
husbands to beat their wives. Those
things are simply not compatible. | 0:21:59 | 0:22:04 | |
They are presumably a minority of
schools? Quite a small minority but | 0:22:04 | 0:22:11 | |
we are also coming across evidence
there are tensions in communities, | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
often between different parts of the
same | 0:22:14 | 0:22:22 | |
same faith, for example, tensions
between those Muslims who like very | 0:22:23 | 0:22:29 | |
young girls to wear their hijab and
those who do not and we see the | 0:22:29 | 0:22:33 | |
tensions imported into schools so
part of our responsibility is to | 0:22:33 | 0:22:37 | |
make sure all children have the
right educational experience. You | 0:22:37 | 0:22:42 | |
make it clear we are not just
talking about the Muslim faith but | 0:22:42 | 0:22:47 | |
unfortunately, are there more issues
there than for example in Anglican | 0:22:47 | 0:22:52 | |
schools, civic schools? It is very
hard, I do not have numbers but we | 0:22:52 | 0:23:01 | |
see it in schools of all faiths.
There are fantastic schools of every | 0:23:01 | 0:23:06 | |
faith and no face and there are
schools that cause concern in every | 0:23:06 | 0:23:10 | |
quarter. We can turn to the primary
school in new in east London. You | 0:23:10 | 0:23:16 | |
talk about what is happening and the
response to the hijab ban as a | 0:23:16 | 0:23:23 | |
matter of regret and what you said
in your speech today was this school | 0:23:23 | 0:23:29 | |
introduced a ban on young girls
under eight wearing the hijab and | 0:23:29 | 0:23:34 | |
you strongly supported the
headteacher in her freedom to do | 0:23:34 | 0:23:37 | |
that. This is the kind of thing I
was warning about last year, which | 0:23:37 | 0:23:44 | |
got attention at the time. It was
represented as being Islamophobic | 0:23:44 | 0:23:50 | |
but it is not. This is concern about
bringing adult pressures and | 0:23:50 | 0:23:55 | |
disagreements to bear on young
children in primary schools. I'm | 0:23:55 | 0:23:59 | |
interested because this new primary
School is outstanding academically | 0:23:59 | 0:24:04 | |
and presuming it had an outstanding
report before you brought inspectors | 0:24:04 | 0:24:10 | |
in yesterday and has achieved a lot.
If that is the case, why do you | 0:24:10 | 0:24:15 | |
think you have to step in and say
what this teacher is doing is | 0:24:15 | 0:24:19 | |
correct if the school is thriving?
We look not just at educational | 0:24:19 | 0:24:24 | |
outcome, we have to look at the
personal development and welfare of | 0:24:24 | 0:24:27 | |
children and if we see things that
suggest any kind of bullying, that | 0:24:27 | 0:24:33 | |
is what inspectors look at. They
talk to children and get a sense of | 0:24:33 | 0:24:39 | |
whether the culture, pressures in
the school are as they should be. I | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
suppose you could say that if you
have said in a major speech you back | 0:24:42 | 0:24:48 | |
the teacher because wearing the
hijab for | 0:24:48 | 0:24:55 | |
hijab for under eightis wrong for
the school, is this something you | 0:24:55 | 0:24:59 | |
think you could say wearing the
hijab after puberty is right. I | 0:24:59 | 0:25:05 | |
think I support the idea that no
child under eight should wear the | 0:25:05 | 0:25:09 | |
hijab, or is it simply this school?
The point is that the headteacher | 0:25:09 | 0:25:15 | |
made a decision. On what basis? On
the basis it is the responsibility | 0:25:15 | 0:25:21 | |
of the head to set uniform policy.
What was her reason for not allowing | 0:25:21 | 0:25:26 | |
kids under eight to wear the hijab?
That is before puberty and there is | 0:25:26 | 0:25:34 | |
no religious requirement, it is a
cultural preference. So that school | 0:25:34 | 0:25:41 | |
is one thing, and another another
thing. Taking a position on this, | 0:25:41 | 0:25:48 | |
are you stepping into an area where
actually you would rather was | 0:25:48 | 0:25:53 | |
devolved to headteachers in the
first place? This is our concern. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:57 | |
When we see a school is being
bullied. The school took the | 0:25:57 | 0:26:02 | |
decision some months ago. The policy
has been running for a while but | 0:26:02 | 0:26:07 | |
when it attracted media attention
great pressure was brought to bear, | 0:26:07 | 0:26:12 | |
not in the immediate community. You
put inspectors in yesterday. I | 0:26:12 | 0:26:16 | |
wonder if the outcome could be
anti-theft local to a lot of Muslims | 0:26:16 | 0:26:20 | |
who would say we would rather we
have this policy. You could conflate | 0:26:20 | 0:26:29 | |
what could be seen as conservatism
with extremism. On the contrary. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:34 | |
There are different issues. It is so
important that schools... Schools | 0:26:34 | 0:26:46 | |
have a responsibility to promote
cohesion in a diverse world. They | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
can never give every parent exactly
what they want but they have to take | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
sensible decisions for the benefit
of all children. I am concerned when | 0:26:53 | 0:26:57 | |
I see the schools losing authority
to take the right decisions. We have | 0:26:57 | 0:27:02 | |
a new Education Secretary. I wonder
if you would like to see that | 0:27:02 | 0:27:08 | |
Education Secretary press ahead with
a revived grammar School programme | 0:27:08 | 0:27:11 | |
given it was in the Conservative
manifesto. That is something that | 0:27:11 | 0:27:15 | |
was in the manifesto. It is not
something I have taken a position | 0:27:15 | 0:27:19 | |
on. My job is to inspect schools. Do
you think the addition of grammar | 0:27:19 | 0:27:25 | |
schools would be valuable? That is
not something I have expressed an | 0:27:25 | 0:27:29 | |
opinion on before and I'm not going
to now. We can discuss this further. | 0:27:29 | 0:27:34 | |
I'm joined here in the studio
by Gita Sahgal, founder | 0:27:34 | 0:27:42 | |
of the center for Secular Space
and Sajid Gulzar - | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
chief executive and executive head
of Prince Albert Community Trust, | 0:27:44 | 0:27:47 | |
which currently runs three
schools in Birmingham. | 0:27:47 | 0:27:49 | |
Good evening. What message do you
think Amanda Spielman is giving by | 0:27:49 | 0:28:02 | |
backing new? I think any school
needs to be free to set its own | 0:28:02 | 0:28:06 | |
uniform policy. There is no
requirement for Muslim girls of the | 0:28:06 | 0:28:13 | |
age of eight and below to wear the
hijab, but equally, I am not sure | 0:28:13 | 0:28:19 | |
how the banning of the hijab fits in
with the British value of mutual | 0:28:19 | 0:28:23 | |
respect and tolerance for all
faiths. In your school, would girls | 0:28:23 | 0:28:29 | |
of any age be allowed to wear the
hijab, would anyone who wants to | 0:28:29 | 0:28:35 | |
wear something of a religious nature
a cross or what ever, be allowed to | 0:28:35 | 0:28:41 | |
wear ripped? Within reason. We have
many Muslim girls who wear the hijab | 0:28:41 | 0:28:45 | |
and many who do not. In my almost 20
years in education I have not come | 0:28:45 | 0:28:54 | |
across any community tensions
between those who do or do not. We | 0:28:54 | 0:28:57 | |
have families where you might have
sisters who send their children to | 0:28:57 | 0:29:02 | |
the school, one wearing the hijab,
one not. It has never been a | 0:29:02 | 0:29:07 | |
problem.
Do you think mutual tolerance, | 0:29:07 | 0:29:15 | |
allowing people to wear what they
wish and when, is a good thing for | 0:29:15 | 0:29:20 | |
British society? I think we are
confusing the issue of growing | 0:29:20 | 0:29:27 | |
fundamentalism with tolerance.
Amanda Spielman, when she gave the | 0:29:27 | 0:29:31 | |
speech in front of the Church of
England audience in considered | 0:29:31 | 0:29:35 | |
words, did suggest faith schools are
not talking to each other | 0:29:35 | 0:29:40 | |
necessarily, the church is not
sufficiently challenging | 0:29:40 | 0:29:45 | |
fundamentalists in their midst and
that the church is hindering the | 0:29:45 | 0:29:49 | |
registration of the inspection of
unregistered schools. So this | 0:29:49 | 0:29:53 | |
problem is wider than that of
Muslims. When we look at the issue | 0:29:53 | 0:29:58 | |
of tolerance, we cannot narrow it to
the issue of the hijab. I think the | 0:29:58 | 0:30:03 | |
promotion of the hijab, and this has
not just happened because of | 0:30:03 | 0:30:08 | |
individual choices, there has been a
policy led by the Muslim Council of | 0:30:08 | 0:30:12 | |
Britain to promote the hijab in
mainstream schools. Many schools | 0:30:12 | 0:30:17 | |
have adopted it as a policy when it
has been completely unrecognised in | 0:30:17 | 0:30:22 | |
traditional Muslim culture. | 0:30:22 | 0:30:28 | |
traditional Muslim culture. Are you
talking about freedom to choose? | 0:30:28 | 0:30:30 | |
There is a freedom to choose, and
often within families girls dress | 0:30:30 | 0:30:37 | |
differently. There may be a
difference in families. What we are | 0:30:37 | 0:30:41 | |
seeing in the promotion of very
young children, not only wearing the | 0:30:41 | 0:30:46 | |
hijab, but the promotion of fasting.
St school under fire, the school in | 0:30:46 | 0:30:52 | |
Newham, they had not banned fasting.
Children were fainting in school, | 0:30:52 | 0:31:01 | |
sometimes staff were, that is a
health and safety issue. We don't | 0:31:01 | 0:31:06 | |
have any proof for that. -- the
school under fire, the school in | 0:31:06 | 0:31:12 | |
Newham. I don't think he was lying
when he made that claim. Are there | 0:31:12 | 0:31:19 | |
certain things within your school
that you say are not acceptable? | 0:31:19 | 0:31:23 | |
Would fasting be acceptable? Are
there other things that you say, | 0:31:23 | 0:31:28 | |
this is the curriculum, this is the
way I run my school, this is what I | 0:31:28 | 0:31:32 | |
do? The point is one of dialogue and
working with the community you | 0:31:32 | 0:31:37 | |
serve, regardless of what faith
background, or cultural persuasion | 0:31:37 | 0:31:44 | |
that community is. We take a stance
on fasting. We strongly discourage | 0:31:44 | 0:31:49 | |
children to fast, particularly if it
is very long, which it has been in | 0:31:49 | 0:31:54 | |
recent years. We have asked the
imams to come in and discuss it with | 0:31:54 | 0:32:03 | |
the parents. When there is
discussion it is OK. The discussion | 0:32:03 | 0:32:08 | |
of the hijab, that is certainly
outside my experience of being a | 0:32:08 | 0:32:12 | |
head teacher responsible for several
schools in Birmingham. It is not | 0:32:12 | 0:32:16 | |
something I have come across in
Birmingham. I do not know of any | 0:32:16 | 0:32:20 | |
promotion of the hijab in that
respect at all. The | 0:32:20 | 0:32:33 | |
respect at all. The trust, the one
that was responsible for the mixed | 0:32:33 | 0:32:37 | |
sex school, it was a body that
actually wrote regulations for it. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:51 | |
It is only fair to put it to you.
What you say about that? That's | 0:32:51 | 0:33:00 | |
right. I didn't catch your name. You
absolutely use your role as they | 0:33:00 | 0:33:06 | |
head to decide what is and isn't
acceptable. And to set boundaries. | 0:33:06 | 0:33:10 | |
You discourage fasting. That's your
responsibility as they head to make | 0:33:10 | 0:33:18 | |
those decisions. Are the decisions
of head teachers being eroded? That | 0:33:18 | 0:33:23 | |
is what we saw at Saint Stephens. A
policy which had been put in place | 0:33:23 | 0:33:28 | |
for some months. Not liked by all
parents but accepted. Outside groups | 0:33:28 | 0:33:33 | |
came in and put pressure on the
school to reverse the policy. They | 0:33:33 | 0:33:36 | |
were not part of the school
community. Will you be on their | 0:33:36 | 0:33:43 | |
macro case? Are you going to follow
this through to get a good | 0:33:43 | 0:33:48 | |
atmosphere in the school? -- will
you be on their case? All we can do | 0:33:48 | 0:33:52 | |
is report on what we find. That is
why we visited the school, so that | 0:33:52 | 0:33:58 | |
we can report. Thanks very much
indeed. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:00 | |
Should young women be employed
in the service of a sport | 0:34:00 | 0:34:03 | |
to promote and enhance
the atmosphere around | 0:34:03 | 0:34:05 | |
certain sportsmen? | 0:34:05 | 0:34:06 | |
Until recently the answer was yes -
for Formula One and darts amongst | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
others. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:12 | |
But the mood has changed in light
of the me too campaign | 0:34:12 | 0:34:15 | |
and the Presidents Club. | 0:34:15 | 0:34:16 | |
Such is the furore around
yesterday's announcement that F1's | 0:34:16 | 0:34:20 | |
"grid girls" will go,
and this debate has gained currency | 0:34:20 | 0:34:23 | |
in a whole host of sports
and encompasses everything | 0:34:23 | 0:34:25 | |
from banner waving to
counting out the rounds | 0:34:25 | 0:34:27 | |
in boxing, to cheerleading. | 0:34:27 | 0:34:29 | |
So what next? | 0:34:29 | 0:34:30 | |
I'm joined in the studio
by former Formula 1 | 0:34:30 | 0:34:32 | |
journalist Beverley Turner. | 0:34:32 | 0:34:33 | |
And in Glasgow by Victoria Obahor,
who works in the boxing | 0:34:33 | 0:34:36 | |
world as a "ring girl"
and is worried her job might | 0:34:36 | 0:34:39 | |
be under threat. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:43 | |
Good evening. Victoria, do you think
boxing is about to ban ring girls? I | 0:34:43 | 0:34:52 | |
hope not. The opinions of people
saying it should be banned is | 0:34:52 | 0:34:59 | |
diabolical. It is absurd. What do
you do as a ring girl? I scored the | 0:34:59 | 0:35:08 | |
boxes into the ring. I tell the
audience what the next round is... | 0:35:08 | 0:35:14 | |
It is fun, it is part of the show,
exciting, glamorous. -- I escort the | 0:35:14 | 0:35:21 | |
boxs into the ring. Do you think it
is part of the entertainment? Yes. | 0:35:21 | 0:35:27 | |
This is somebody earning a living,
doing what she wants to do. Why do | 0:35:27 | 0:35:33 | |
you have such a problem with that?
It is not that I necessarily have a | 0:35:33 | 0:35:38 | |
problem with it. We must remember
that the girls in Formula 1 have not | 0:35:38 | 0:35:42 | |
been banned. The Formula 1
organisation has decided that that | 0:35:42 | 0:35:46 | |
image of women as the | 0:35:46 | 0:35:55 | |
image of women as the totty no
longer represents the brand. And | 0:35:55 | 0:35:56 | |
quite right. Long gone are the days
of the women being the icing. It | 0:35:56 | 0:36:03 | |
sends a powerful message to the next
generation. But these are women who | 0:36:03 | 0:36:07 | |
are earning a living, doing what
they enjoy coming you might say the | 0:36:07 | 0:36:11 | |
same of any other entertainer. It is
an entertainment business. And in | 0:36:11 | 0:36:16 | |
entertainment no job is secure. This
isn't about feminism, taking these | 0:36:16 | 0:36:19 | |
women's jobs away from them. It is!
To some extent but it is about the | 0:36:19 | 0:36:26 | |
owners of Formula 1 who are
conspicuous by their macro -- by | 0:36:26 | 0:36:34 | |
their absence in this debate. Bernie
Ecclestone said it was a ridiculous | 0:36:34 | 0:36:38 | |
thing. That might be a generational
thing. The conversation started with | 0:36:38 | 0:36:44 | |
Formula 1. What do you think of the
idea that there will be no more | 0:36:44 | 0:36:48 | |
great girls? I think it is a shame.
-- no more grid girls. I think it is | 0:36:48 | 0:36:58 | |
political correctness gone mad. Have
you ever had inappropriate behaviour | 0:36:58 | 0:37:02 | |
towards you or any of the other
women who work with you? None | 0:37:02 | 0:37:06 | |
whatsoever. It is fun. Everybody is
there for a good show that the | 0:37:06 | 0:37:13 | |
boxers put on and ourselves walking
in the ring. We are not doing any | 0:37:13 | 0:37:17 | |
harm to anybody. People have their
opinions, but it's me, it's my | 0:37:17 | 0:37:21 | |
income, and I love doing it and I
want to keep doing it. Do you get | 0:37:21 | 0:37:30 | |
power from doing it? Feminists say
that it is degrading. It isn't. I | 0:37:30 | 0:37:35 | |
have worked hard for the way I look,
my body, and if I want to express | 0:37:35 | 0:37:41 | |
myself in that way then fair enough.
She's right, isn't she? I don't | 0:37:41 | 0:37:46 | |
think so. I'm not saying that she
couldn't do any other job. I'm quite | 0:37:46 | 0:37:52 | |
surprised by the outpouring of
sympathy from a lot of middle-aged | 0:37:52 | 0:37:55 | |
men who have clearly been worried
about the long-term career prospects | 0:37:55 | 0:37:59 | |
of these girls. Strangely they are
not interested in the long term | 0:37:59 | 0:38:04 | |
career prospects of female drivers,
of which there are none. But there | 0:38:04 | 0:38:13 | |
are female boxers. You are saying
women shouldn't be there for the | 0:38:13 | 0:38:18 | |
entertainment purposes of
essentially a male sport. NFL is | 0:38:18 | 0:38:22 | |
about to kick off. All of the
adverts have the cheerleaders. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:27 | |
Cheerleaders are completely
different. Why? Beer athletic, | 0:38:27 | 0:38:32 | |
gymnasts. You and I couldn't do what
they do. You and I could hold a | 0:38:32 | 0:38:40 | |
number up in a boxing ring. -- they
are athletic. What you think about | 0:38:40 | 0:38:45 | |
that? That's ridiculous. We are all
doing a job. Whether we are athletic | 0:38:45 | 0:38:52 | |
or not. I'm doing a job as well as
them. I do not get your views on | 0:38:52 | 0:38:57 | |
that at all. Do you think male
attitudes are changing? Men are now | 0:38:57 | 0:39:05 | |
saying for themselves, actually,
this is not to do with the sport any | 0:39:05 | 0:39:09 | |
more, maybe they have daughters,
sisters... It is totally that. We | 0:39:09 | 0:39:17 | |
have so many images of women in the
palms of our hand. You no longer | 0:39:17 | 0:39:21 | |
have to go to a Formula 1 race to
get a glimpse of a woman on the | 0:39:21 | 0:39:25 | |
tarmac. Those days are gone. I'm
asking... Women are patronising | 0:39:25 | 0:39:34 | |
other women about the decisions and
choices they make. It's not about | 0:39:34 | 0:39:38 | |
patronising other women. I want my
daughters and my son to grow up with | 0:39:38 | 0:39:42 | |
a very good view of what it is to be
a woman. I don't want them to grow | 0:39:42 | 0:39:46 | |
up thinking we only judge women by
what they look like. In Formula 1 | 0:39:46 | 0:39:50 | |
and boxing, the women... What do you
think? That's my prerogative. You | 0:39:50 | 0:39:57 | |
don't want your children, for
instance your daughter, to do that | 0:39:57 | 0:40:00 | |
then that is up to you. But my
mother is proud of me when I go up | 0:40:00 | 0:40:05 | |
there. Thank you both very much. On
the front pages, Theresa May and the | 0:40:05 | 0:40:13 | |
Chinese president. | 0:40:13 | 0:40:19 | |
Cut pay-outs for blunders or the NHS
will go bust on the front of the | 0:40:19 | 0:40:25 | |
Daily Telegraph. And ministers
watering down EU migrant plan in the | 0:40:25 | 0:40:29 | |
Telegraph. In the Guardian, Labour
plan to force cheap sale of land to | 0:40:29 | 0:40:33 | |
the state. And a review of far right
attack after the verdict. That is | 0:40:33 | 0:40:43 | |
all. Goodbye. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:48 |