Indigo Jo on February 9th, 2010

Last Thursday BBC Radio 4 broadcast a Report programme in which they attempted to “investigate” the links between British university Islamic societies (or ISocs) with terrorism, on the basis that Umar Farouk Abdulmuttalib, who attempted to blow up a plane near Detroit last Christmas, had been president of the ISoc at University College London. […]

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Indigo Jo on December 16th, 2009

Today, the British Supreme Court ruled that the policy of the Jews’ Free School (or JFS) of taking converts to Judaism only when they had been through one denomination’s conversion ritual rather than another was racially discriminatory. The problem was that the school accepted that people who could trace their Jewish ancestry through the […]

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Indigo Jo on November 27th, 2009

Why Conservatives failed the test on Islamic schools - Education News, Education - The Independent

It appears that the Tories overlooked a number of things while criticising state funding for two schools supposedly linked to Hizb-ut-Tahrir in Slough and north London:

The most obvious mistake was the allegation that they appeared not to have been […]

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Indigo Jo on November 23rd, 2009

Most UK crime caused by people with childhood behavioural problems, study says | Society | The Guardian

I was quite worried when I saw this headline, and was reassured to read on and find that it was all about early intervention to make sure that children who were continually behaving badly were led back to the […]

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Indigo Jo on September 22nd, 2009

School teacher Helen Goddard jailed for 15 months for lesbian affair with teenage pupil | Mail Online

A judge yesterday jailed a (now former) music teacher for fifteen months for carrying on a lesbian affair with a 15-year-old pupil at a posh girls’ private school in London. The affair involved stays at the teacher’s house […]

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Indigo Jo on August 23rd, 2009

I’ve had a camcorder since last Christmas, which I used to shoot footage of the Palestine rally in January. I had intended to use it to do video blogs and perhaps interviews, but haven’t got round to it until now. Well, last week I posted a 20-minute video blog (in three sections as […]

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Indigo Jo on August 19th, 2009

Comprehensive defends new school uniform costing nearly £100 | Education | The Guardian

On the subject of Portsmouth, one imagines that you will not find much overlap between the riders on the new London-to-Portsmouth Greyhound I mentioned in my last entry and the clientele at this state comprehensive school in the outlying Hampshire town of Waterlooville. […]

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Indigo Jo on June 2nd, 2009

I’ve not long finished watching a BBC Storyville documentary (see it on iPlayer here) on the scientist D. Carleton Gajdusek (pronounced Guy-du-shek), who won a Nobel prize for work on prion diseases (such as the notorious mad cow disease) who was later convicted of molesting young boys. Gajdusek imported dozens of boys from various […]

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Indigo Jo on May 26th, 2009

Why are the authorities refusing to fund France’s oldest Muslim school, now facing bankruptcy? | Education | The Guardian

Today’s Guardian Education supplement on how bigots in a north Paris education authority are using bureaucratic methods to deny a Muslim school funding, forcing it to the verge of bankruptcy. Despite the supposedly strict separation of […]

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