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Muslim Council of Britain to Attend Holocaust Memorial Day

  • Posted by Martin Bright
  • 03 December 2007

The MCB has finally bowed to public pressure to do the decent thing

The Muslim Council of Britain has made the right decision to attend next year's Holocaust Memorial Day. The question now is whether its representatives will be welcome after boycotting the event for years. The best discussion, as is often the case, can be found on Pickled Politics.

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Martin Bright began his journalistic career writing in very simple English for a magazine aimed at French school children. This experience has informed his style ever since. He worked for the BBC World Service, and The Guardian before joining the Observer as Education Correspondent. He went on to become Home Affairs Editor before becoming the New Statesman's political editor in 2005.

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