Olympic Park: a sea of ugly
Yesterday I decided to have a walk through the Olympic Park, which opened a couple of weeks ago after having been closed since the end of the Olympics in 2012. I was excited that...
Category: Olympics 2012
Gold medals won’t cure cancer
As the British team in the London Olympics surpassed its previous gold medal record (its all-time record from 1908 is unbeaten, but that was when the rules were very different from now), politicians started...
The Olympics, Ramadan and racism
So, the Olympics has finally started. I had been planning an article last week about the chaos in the preparation for the Games, the security etc., and the traffic disruption that would result from...
Tablighis: engaging in Bradford, isolating in London – or is it just a misunderstanding?
Olympic mosque could create breeding ground for extremists, says senior Anglican - Telegraph This was in yesterday’s Telegraph, and it surprised me how many specific falsehoods and irrelevances could be crammed into one article....
Monbiot: getting into the Olympic spirit
London is getting into the Olympic spirit - by kicking out the Gypsies - Guardian Comment George Monbiot notes on the recent eviction of Gypsies and other Travellers from their sites in east London...
The mega mosque petition (updated)
Lately Jamal at Radical Muslim has been posting requests for people to sign a petition to the UK Prime Minister asking him to approve the construction of the Abbey Mills mosque. Several people have...
United bigots of the “mega-mosque” campaign
BC Radio last week broadcast a programme called Turning Right, which probed the British National Party’s lame attempts to hide the thuggish and criminal natures of a number of its major activists, including its leader, Nick Griffin. Griffin made little effort to conceal his real opinions, asserting that he now believed what he had to, because he would otherwise be extradited to France (“otherwise”, for example, includes maintaining his devotion to Holocaust denial). The programme also gave airtime to an outfit called the Christian People’s Alliance, which they claim drove down the BNP’s support in its white, working-class east London “heartland” by concentrating on local issues. However, the CPA and the BNP are on the same side on one issue: opposition to the so-called “mega mosque”, which is proposed for a site near to the main Olympic stadium. An examination of material issued by the CPA, however, reveals its reliance on misinformation and bigotry.
Olympics: the fake consultations
George Monbiot, in today’s Guardian, on the fake consultations which accompany the Olympic developments in east London: chiefly, the difficulties one had to go to in order to get copies of the plans, which...