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Baroness Warsi and Anjem Choudhary: takfir on demand

Lady Warsi: extremists forfeit their right to call themselves Muslim | Politics | The Guardian Baroness (Syeeda) Warsi recently said in an interview with the Guardian that Muslim extremists such as Anjem Choudhary, who led the group which was threatening … Continue reading

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“Big society” is just an empty slogan

BBC News - Big Society is my mission, says David Cameron David Cameron gave a speech today in which he claimed that, while reducing the budget deficit was his duty, his so-called Big Society was his “passion” and that one … Continue reading

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ME, mental health and victim blaming

Yesterday afternoon there was a debate on ME at Westminster Hall, an annex to the House of Commons, whose main participants were Ian Swales (Lib Dem, Redcar) and the Tory health minister Paul Burstow. Swales read out a letter from … Continue reading

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Celyn Vincent and the problem of invisibility

This morning the papers reported that Riven Vincent, the mother of a daughter named Celyn (pronounced Kellin, Welsh for holly — and some newspapers thought the public was too stupid to process that, so they just called her Holly) who … Continue reading

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A sad day for parliamentary democracy

Last night a set of “scandals” broke in which various senior Lib Dem politicians made statements which were not conducive to the love-in between their party and the Tories which has caused so much upset as they have ditched one … Continue reading

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Tory think tank compared to “madrasa”

Today the Guardian carried a front-page story about how various Tory MPs and activists are being given training by an offshoot of the party’s youth wing, Conservative Future, named the Young Britons’ Foundation ([1], [2]). The group’s leadership regards the … Continue reading

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The nasty party begins to re-emerge

In 2002 Teresa May, the chairwoman of the Tory party appointed by Iain Duncan Smith, told the party’s conference that people called her party the “nasty party” and that their base was too narrow as were their sympathies on occasion. … Continue reading

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Why Tories messed up in attack on Islamic school

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 … Continue reading

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Meet the Daily Mail’s new guest editor

Back in the 1990s, I was a big fan of the Liverpool-based TV soap Brookside (I got into it just as the body-under-the-patio story was hotting up and got out after the storylines got too sensationalised and silly), and one … Continue reading

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Provincial Tory attacks free speech

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Move ‘em down south? Hardly

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Response to Sayeeda Warsi on the BNP

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Doreen Lawrence condemns Johnson for mayor

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“Cultural separatism” and the Islamic studies conference

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Wheatcroft on Tory neo-cons

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Racist or not, Mr Security had to go

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Provincial Tories reject Asian City worker

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Francis Maude in Emel magazine

Francis Maude, chairman of the Conservative Party, has a column in the latest edition of emel magazine (June 2006, issue 21, not online yet but available in Borders), entitled A Party for All People. The article discusses at length the party’s recent drive to recruit more female and ethnic minority candidates, including Muslims. Continue reading

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Conservative Home on the A-list

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On Chishti defection and Sands sacking

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