Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
In the two weeks since the 7th October Hamas raid in southern Israel, the government of Israel has launched a bombing campaign against Gaza (supposedly against Hamas, but targeting civilian buildings including hospitals and...
Today it was reported that four of the UK’s most senior lawyers had complained to Ofcom, the British media regulator, had breached its code of impartiality by refusing to use the word ‘terrorist’ in...
This morning I heard a shocking racist rant from an Israeli whose family were (allegedly) among those taken hostage by Hamas in last week’s raid on communities in the Gaza border region, on the...
It’s party conference season and last week it was the Tory party’s turn, and this is likely to be their last before the next general election. Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, unveiled a sharp...
Last week or the week before, a meme went around claiming that women don’t realise how often men think of the Roman empire, which must be at least once a day, and various people...
Last week and the week before, there was another wave of news stories, as we have come to expect in early September, of children being punished in one way or another, usually by being...
Last weekend a video circulated of a terrier dog attacking people in a busy street in Birmingham, one of the victims being a young girl. The dog was initially believed to be an American...
The other day I watched a YouTube video by a sister called Aisha Murray, who wears the niqaab, lives in Scotland and has made videos for BBC social media as well as her own...
Last week Matt Goodwin published an article on his Substack (most of it paid-for, which I refuse to do, but you can read the first few paragraphs free) claiming that the controversy over the...
The other day I was working for a printing company delivering their products in north London, and I pulled over on a road outside Enfield and took a fifteen-minute break to drink my coffee....
In the wake of yesterday’s court ruling that the extension of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to the outer suburbs can go ahead in the face of opposition from Conservative-controlled outer London borough...
This documentary by the comedian Rosie Jones, about the online abuse and trolling she received a lot of on account of her disability, has been the subject of a lot of debate in the...
Yesterday three by-elections were held to replace three Tory MPs, including the former prime minister Boris Johnson, who resigned last month for reasons including the ‘partygate’ scandal (involving politicians who held parties while everyone...
It has been announced that a plan to convert part of the Trocadero in Piccadilly, London, into a mosque has been approved by the council. The mosque is being proposed and funded by the...
Recently there have been a series of controversial cases in Scotland, where men have had their sentences for extremely violent crimes reduced because they were under 25 when they committed the acts on the...
Today Instagram, a division of Meta which also owns Facebook and WhatsApp, launched their social media app, Threads. This has been marketed as a “Twitter killer” for several weeks as Elon Musk continues to...
Yesterday (Saturday) I saw, on the front page of the BBC’s News app, an article by Laura Kuenssberg titled “Like it or hate it, the NHS is here to stay”. Kuenssberg is a BBC...
Last weekend, the former prime minister Boris Johnson stepped down from parliament in anticipation of a committee report that was expected to find that he had misled parliament over his activities during the Covid...
Today (Monday), a woman in Stoke-on-Trent in England was sentenced to 28 months’ imprisonment for aborting her pregnancy at between 32 and 34 weeks. She did this by deceiving a major abortion provider, the...
Last week the BBC’s File on 4 ran a feature on affirmative action, the American academic policy of taking aspects of an applicant’s background, including their race, into account when awarding university places. This...