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...Murdoch can somehow figure out how to make money while other news companies wither in advertising-only models, he could have a little monopoly. "Murdoch has always been a huge gambler, but a calculated gambler," says Roy Greenslade, who worked for Murdoch for several years in Britain and is now a media columnist. "And he's always had a desire for a monopoly." Greenslade, for the record, thinks Murdoch is barking up the wrong tree...
Faith schools across Britain are holding their breath and waiting to see if they will need to change their admissions procedures after Europe's largest Jewish school was last week given the right to appeal a court decision saying its entry policy was racist...
...June, the British High Court of Appeals exposed a rift within Britain's Jewish community when it ruled that the admissions policy run by JFS School in North London was in breach of the Race Relations Act. The school's admissions policy, which insists that a pupil's mother must be Jewish, whether by birth or conversion, came under scrutiny in 2007 after the school refused to admit a 12-year-old boy on the grounds that his mother had converted to Judaism from Catholicism through the progressive Judaism movement, which is not recognized by the orthodox United Synagogue, Britain...
...originally called the Jewish Free School) was at first found to be exempt from race-relations laws. But when the case was taken to appeal, judges ruled that the school was violating the law created in 1976 to end racial discrimination in the U.K. The decision rocked Britain's faith schools and sparked a debate over the basis of religious identity as Britain's Jewish community found itself asking, What or who defines someone...
...also learned to turn attacks against it to its advantage. Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission is currently investigating complaints that the BNP is breaching the law because it admits only "indigenous Caucasians" as members and employees. Griffin defines that group as "of English, Irish, Scottish or Welsh descent, or closely related, assimilated European peoples" but can only name one nonwhite Briton - a mixed-race comedian called Charlie Williams - whose British roots go far enough back that the BNP would consider him for membership. Williams died in 2006. But while the EHRC has a statutory duty to follow...