In a similar story, a Muslim police worker has been awarded compensation after colleagues accused him of being a terrorist sympathiser. Notice that The Telegraph reporter, Richard Edwards, decides to inject a totally unrelated fact — that this Muslim police worker was given close to £14,000 compensation, whic hsi more than was given to one of the families of the victims of the July 7 terrorist attacks. What does the decision of an employment tribunal have to do with the awards issued by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA)?  And what does it have to do within the context of this story? If the article had been some kind of analysis about awards issued by employment tribunals and the CICA, it may have made some kind of sense (though only if there was an analysis of cases similar to those involving the Muslim police worker, i.e. cases brought on a religious or racial basis). But here it seems Richard Edwards had decided that some vague reference to Muslims and terrorism was enough to make some point (a stab at ‘political correctness’, ‘multiculturalism’, ‘liberalism’, etc.) by invoking the payout awarded to one of the the families of the July 7 terrorist bombings.

Another Asian (Muslim) police officer who was suing the Metropolitan Police Service for racial discrimination has lost his case.

Related: The Met’s race troubles.

Bottom line: save your money.

A man set up a stall in a busy South Oxhey shopping parade, shouted that all Muslims were terrorists and called for their execution, a court has heard.

The Met is already being sued by another officer, Shabbir Hussain, on similar grounds.

The Guardian has some background on the Met’s troubled race relations.

The Independent claims Hastings, which has a large number of foreign students, has an “inordinately high number of race-related attacks” (although no source is cited). Recording ‘race crimes’ will always be difficult.

• Christian Science Monitor, “Sudanese: ‘What Arab-African rift?’”: In Sudan’s Arab north, Arabs marry, go to school, and work side by side with Africans from Darfur. The divide portrayed in the West means little to people here.

• The Economist, “Lifting the veil”: A witness and victim of the conflict in Darfur finds a voice