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Disability & M.E.
- 25% ME Group
- Bad Cripple
- Blogeration
- Broken of Britain, the
- Carer Watch
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- Dreams at Stake
- Flash Says
- FWD/Forward (defunct)
- Invest in ME
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- ME Community Trust
- NICE Guidelines blog
- Not Done Living
- Osler's Web
- Rellacafa
- 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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- Chicken Yoghurt
- Comment Is Free @ The Guardian
- Crooked Timber
- Exploring the World Through the Web
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- Lenin’s Tomb
- Londonist
- Not Otherwise Specified
- Pickled Politics
- Rachel from North London
- Tsuredzuregusa
- What You Can Get Away With
Tech links
Category Archives: Civil liberties
Young adult marriage visa ban: unjust, now unlawful
Supreme Court overturns non-EU young spouses ban (from BBC News) The UK Supreme Court has ruled that a government ban on British citizens bringing spouses under the age of 21 from outside the EU to live in the UK, introduced … Continue reading
Facebook troll jailed — why can’t people be adults?
BBC News - Reading man jailed for dead girl 'trolling' insults A man has been jailed for 18 weeks for posting insulting messages on Facebook pages dedicated to young people who had died, in one case a 15-year-old girl who … Continue reading
Why I support banning the EDL’s march
Of late I’ve seen a number of tweets and blog articles questioning why some “good liberals” suddenly go hard-line when it comes to allowing the English Defence League to have their marches, and start supporting banning them, particularly the one … Continue reading
The perils of hosting political content in the UK
Atos moves to shut down criticism | Tentacles of doom (also see Carer Watch) The above article is about how ATOS, the French company hired by the British government to conduct disability assessments, has used legal threats to get a … Continue reading
Trafalgar into Tahrir?
Anti-cuts campaigners plan to turn Trafalgar Square into Tahrir Square | World news | guardian.co.uk I am planning to attend the march organised by the Trades Union Congress this coming Saturday (26th March), but I am very uneasy about the … Continue reading
Busybodies and common sense
BBC News - Should a teenager be left to babysit a toddler? Lately I’ve seen a few stories about parents receiving cautions or fines for “child neglect” which consisted of leaving a young child in the company of an older … Continue reading
White guy threatens to bomb airport, gets slap on wrist, much whingeing ensues
Last week a guy called Paul Chambers was fined a total of £1,000 (all but £385 of which was either costs or a “victim surcharge”) for posting a tweet threatening to blow up an airport. The guy was delayed at … Continue reading
To extradite a bed-ridden woman
Earlier today I read that a woman from mid-Wales who is bed-ridden with fibromyalgia and also suffers from Crohn’s disease, epilepsy and depression has been refused an appeal in the High Court against extradition to the USA on charges of … Continue reading
Terrorism and privacy
So, once again a terrorist associated with al-Qa’ida has nearly taken out an aeroplane, and governments are scrabbling around trying to find ways to prevent that exact type of attack from ever happening again. This time, we are being threatened … Continue reading
Henry Porter: from war to police state
Out of Afghanistan, into a police state | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Kim Howells had an article published in the Guardian today, in which he recommends that British forces are pulled out of Afghanistan and that … Continue reading
Control orders: try them or release them
Bring these men to trial — or revoke their control orders, from today’s Guardian Afua Hirsch (the Guardian’s legal correspondent) on the recent change of mind regarding a British-Libyan man who had been under a banning order based on evidence … Continue reading
I’m a photographer, not a terrorist (or a ‘nonce’)
BBC Viewfinder: I’m a photographer… This is all about the problems some photographers have been having taking pictures in ‘sensitive’ locations, particularly in London; these places have also included shopping centres, many of them privately owned even though they appear … Continue reading
Gary McKinnon and the Daily Mail crusade
The Daily Mail has recently been running a campaign over several issues to stop the British computer hacker, Gary McKinnon, from being extradited to the USA to face charges over cracking American military and NASA computers. It has printed heartstring-tugging … Continue reading