Thank you very much, sir.

Unfortunately not, no. As Mr Desmond made clear -- the proprietor of the Express made clear in his own testimony here, he has withdrawn his newspapers from being allowed to be adjudicated by the Press Complaints Commission, which again strikes us as a most mystifying position for us to be in ...

Yes, you're quite right, sir. There was an update on a front-page story that appeared, so we hope the Inquiry will, again, look at ensuring that when retractions and apologies are made, they are in some way commensurate to the prominence given to the original story and the damage ...

Yes. A couple of points, Mr Jay. One is we would hope that if the Press Complaints Commission is going to replaced or reformed, attention will be given to the speed with which the body will deal with complaints. I mentioned earlier that we've been in negotiation with the ...

Yes. See, they were very keen to highlight the Muslim angle when they were arrested, but when they were released, no word mentioned that they were Muslim then.

Yes, yes, sir. There was no basis for the "it offends Muslims" headline.

If I can just point out to the Inquiry that this particular front page was subsequently used by the far right, the British National Party, on their placards. The actual front page of the Daily Express with ...

Yes. This was a headline in the Daily Express, a front-page story, actually, "Christmas is banned, it offends Muslims". I recall this story because it was one of the few times that I ever actually purchased the Daily Express, and I took this story home, I read it, and there ...

No. My apologies, sir.

Unfortunately not.

Well, this was astonishing, Mr Jay, because this was a front-page story and normally newspapers are quite careful about -- if there's an ongoing criminal case and there are allegations against individuals, they will put words in brackets or in speech marks to denote that this is what people are ...

Yes. "Extremist Islamist group" -- I fear we might not get very far with that. Melanie Phillips, she has a particular world view in which quite a few groups seem to fall into that category, so I don't think we're going to get very far with that one, but ...

Yes.

Yes, this was a complaint by Engage. The article actually mentioned Engage. It was an article by Melanie Phillips.

Yes. Lord Ahmed is a peer. He was involved in a car accident at the time, in December 2007.

A newspaper, in covering this case of the accident, referred to him as a "Muslim peer", and we wrote to the PCC because the PCC's code of practice says that ...

We can resend that to you, most probably.

Yes.

Yes, exactly. I spotted that as well. You're a good editor.

It yes, I saw that.

I believe in this case they did, sir. It is true that we've had an issue with third-party complaints in the past, but my understanding is that in recent years the PCC may have moved on a bit and may have been more willing to accept third-party complaints.

This was a piece in the Daily Star which claimed that the sale of poppies was banned in areas with large Muslim populations: Leeds, Bradford and elsewhere. We looked into this story -- it seemed incredible to us -- and very quickly found that they had no basis whatsoever. Just because poppies ...

Yes.

Yes, that's right. I remember about ten years ago the Sun printed a terrible headline, something about the "gay Mafia" -- I think it was referring to ministers that were in Tony Blair's government at the time who happened to be gay -- and the Sun faced criticism from all ...

I can fully accept that newspapers are there to report stories and if Muslims are involved in those stories, there will be facts about Muslims or the faith of Islam which they need to touch upon, especially in a time when we're facing a terror threat from Al Qaeda ...

That's right. We believe these headlines are -- we believe these headlines only serve to increase prejudice towards Muslims and they are designed to increase it, which is actually the more disturbing fact.

Yes. At Engage we believe that as a society in recent years we've moved away from overt racism. We recognise that racism is wrong, we recognise that stereotypes of people are generally wrong, you know, to propagate these. We recognise it's important to be generally polite in our ...

Yes, I do.

Sure. Engage was set up almost four years ago now and it's a Muslim advocacy organisation which seeks to encourage greater civic participation on the part of British Muslims in our democracy.

So we try -- during election time, we encourage voter registration drives, we encourage people to take an ...

Sure. My name is Inayat Bunglawala.