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Disability & M.E.
- 25% ME Group
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- Dreams at Stake
- Flash Says
- FWD/Forward (defunct)
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- Same Difference
- Severe ME Book
- Site that Breathes, the
- Surviving Severe M.E.
- Tymes Trust
- Wheelie Catholic
- Where's the Benefit?
- WildKat blog
Islamic blogs: brothers
- Abdusalaam Al-Hindi
- Adnan Tariq
- AE (Abu Eesa)
- Ahmed’s World of Islam
- An American Muslim
- Avari
- Bin Gregory Productions
- Bradford Muslim
- Chill Yo Islam Yo
- Dr.M’s Analysis
- Dunner’s blog
- HAhmed.com
- Hamza Tzortzis's blog
- Haq Islam
- Irrelevant Opinions
- Madhab al-Irfy
- Manrilla Blog
- Mas’ud Blog
- Mind, Body, Soul
- Mr Moo
- Muhabbat-ud-Deen
- Mujahideen Ryder (defunct)
- Naeem’s blog
- Peace, bruv
- Rolled Up Trousers
- Seeker's Digest
- Shahada
- Yahya Birt
Islamic blogs: sisters
- A Nightingale
- Egyptian’s Wife
- Ginny's Thoughts and Things (Old)
- Happy Muslim Mama
- Hijabi Apprentice
- Ibnat al-Hidayah: Daughter of Guidance
- Ify Okoye (ex Muslim Apple)
- iMuslim.tv
- In the Shade of the Veil
- Inner Reflections Transcribed
- Islam, My Inspiration
- Jamerican Muslimah
- Margari Aziza
- Muslimness
- Nicole Cunningham
- Nzingha’s soapbox
- Obscure Sanctum
- Old Muslim Woman in the Shoe
- Online Rihla
- Organica
- Outlines (new)
- Pitter-patter of Seagulls' Feet
- Rickshaw Diaries
- Rolling Ruminations
- Scream-free Muslims
- Shalom 2 Salaam
- Spirit21
- Tasmiya
- Tears of Realisation
- The Scent
- Tradicionalista
- Tranquilart
- TwennyTwo
- Waqt Well Wasted
Islamic blogs: groups & issues
Islamic links: general
- Amal Press
- Dar al-Mustafa
- DeenPort
- DeenPort (mobile)
- European Institue of Human Sciences
- Guidance Media
- Hanbali Forum Files
- Hanbali Text Society
- Iqra Islamic Publications
- Kitaba – Islamic texts for the blind
- Lamppost Productions
- Mama List of Islamic Links
- Media Monitors Network (MMN)
- New Islamic Directions
- Pro Hijab
- Radical Middle Way
- Shaikh Muhammad IH Pirzada
- SoundVision
- SunniForum
- SunniPath
- The Cult
- ummahpulse.com – Home
Islamic links: converts
Media monitoring
Other blogs
- A Fistful of Euros
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- What You Can Get Away With
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Author Archives: Indigo Jo
Review: Stacey Dooley on Luton’s fanatics
BBC Three - My Hometown Fanatics: Stacey Dooley Investigates Stacey Dooley is presented as someone who was plucked from working as a shop assistant at a perfume counter at Luton airport to presenting an investigative programme, titled “Stacey Dooley Investigates”, … Continue reading
How do we “face up” to the left’s eugenic past?
Eugenics: the skeleton that rattles loudest in the left’s closet | Jonathan Freedland | Comment is free | The Guardian The article is about the enthusiasm of pre-war centre-left intellectuals for eugenics, the movement which aimed, as he puts it, … Continue reading
Chris Brown and other misogynistic musical mediocrities
Last Sunday night, the R&B singer Chris Brown performed at the Grammy award ceremonies, having apparently been given an exemption from the terms of his five-year probation to appear. Brown is probably better known for beating up his then-girlfriend, fellow … Continue reading
George Carey only defends Old England
Recently there were two court cases which further established the secularism of the British state, despite its nominal Christian character: one involved an atheist councillor in Bideford, Devon, who resigned from a council after they refused to end their Christian … Continue reading
RIP trolling isn’t the worst kind
On Tuesday night, the BBC broadcast two programmes about online bullying, one of them specifically dedicated to the phenomenon of “RIP trolling”, meaning the phenomenon of mindless idiots posting insulting messages, videos and doctored images on Facebook memorials to deceased … Continue reading
Welfare Reform Bill and the Royal Assent petition
Recently someone put up a petition online calling on the Queen to refuse Royal Assent to the impending Welfare Reform Bill (i.e. to veto it), to which Sue Marsh, co-author of the Spartacus Report, drew my attention. The UK is, … Continue reading
Social-worker bashers’ wilful blindness
On Monday night, BBC2 broadcast a documentary titled Protecting Our Children, the first of a series of three programmes which follows a social worker in Bristol as they deal with one of their child protection cases. The social worker featured … Continue reading
“One Born Every Minute”: learning disabilities, babies and marriage
One Born Every Minute is a series on Channel 4 (UK) which features women giving birth, and the nurses and midwives who attend to them. They feature two women (or couples, if the man is around) every week, and last … Continue reading
Another pioneer for the Tory workfare scheme
There is a long article in today’s Guardian about the racism facing the Roma population in Hungary, which has faced acute discrimination since (at least) the end of Communism, particularly in the education system in which their children are often … Continue reading
“If Rod Liddle really wants M.E., he can have mine”
Yesterday, Rod Liddle had a venomous article printed in the Sun newspaper on page 13, which suggested that he might like to become disabled so that he could claim money off the state and use disabled parking places (“you park … Continue reading
Holby City’s ridiculous bone marrow transplant story
Last night BBC1’s Holby City aired a quite ridiculous storyline in which a 16-year-old girl with the skin condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) received a bone-marrow transplant from her sister, which is supposed to cure the condition. I had always thought … Continue reading
Minimum wage undermined by fake self-employment
Self-employed business opportunity? No thanks | John Harris | Comment is free | The Guardian This article exposes something I have had personal experience of in the past year, which is proper jobs (usually minimum wage jobs) being replaced by … Continue reading
PIP won’t cut the disability budget
Last Tuesday, BBC 5 Live’s morning discussion presenter Victoria Derbyshire hosted an interview with Maria Miller, the minister responsible for disabled people in the UK, and various disability activists including Kaliya Franklin of Spartacus Report fame, and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, … Continue reading
Are Muslim women being left up on the shelf?
Why British Muslim women struggle to find a marriage partner | Syma Mohammed | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Syma Mohammed is claiming that Muslim women find it significantly more difficult than men to find a partner, as evidenced (she … Continue reading
Retail “work experience” is nothing of the kind
Why the government was wrong to make me work in Poundland for free | Cait Reilly | Comment is free | The Guardian Cait Reilly is currently suing the government after the DWP forced her to leave a voluntary work … Continue reading
Just published: Kaliya Franklin interview transcript
I have just published a transcript of an interview Kaliya Franklin, one of the major authors of the “Spartacus” report I blogged about here, that she gave to Resonance FM which was broadcast yesterday (Friday) afternoon. I did the transcript … Continue reading
What I really wanted from T-Mobile
The other day I finally got round to changing my T-Mobile tariff from a £25/mo tariff which covers the cost of a phone, to a £10/mo SIM-only tariff (which was reduced to half that for the first nine months, which … Continue reading
The Mail, Gerada and the alternative to DLA
Recently a group of people with various disabilities and chronic illnesses (some of them in very precarious health, two of them having been admitted to hospital in the last few days and two others narrowly avoiding it) compiled a report, … Continue reading
Nobody ever knows the heart of anyone else
The hearts of white people, part II « Abagond I saw this post after a friend on a social networking site posted a link to it. The author, who claims his blog is a means of practising his writing by … Continue reading
Why we protect vulnerable prisoners
Yesterday the two men convicted of murdering the black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, when they were teenagers were jailed “at Her Majesty’s pleasure” (effectively a life sentence), one for a minimum of fourteen years and the other for a minimum of … Continue reading
