Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Yesterday Channel 4 News broadcast a conversation involving Jack Buckby, the "outreach officer" and former parliamentary candidate for 'Liberty GB', and Barbara Ntumy, deputy president of the London Metropolitan University students' union and a...
Today three members of the notorious 'grooming gangs' who raped and sexually abused girls in the Rochdale area lost an appeal against deportation to Pakistan. Two of the men, who were jailed in 2012,...
The speaker of the Commons, John Bercow, has made himself unpopular (again) with a number of Tory MPs for announcing that he will not allow Donald Trump to address the Commons if and when...
In yesterday's Observer, there is a piece by one John Daniel Davidson, identified as "a senior correspondent for the Federalist" who lives in Austin, Texas, defending Donald Trump from claims that he is a...
So, in the last few weeks Jeremy Corbyn has shown his true Euro-Sceptic colours, issuing a three-line whip to order his MPs to vote in favour of the government's bill to trigger Article 50...
The other day I came across a discussion on the forum MumsNet about a boy at primary school who had been, for the umpteenth time, given a trivial role in his school play while...
Last Friday an inquest jury gave its verdict in the case of Dean Saunders, who killed himself in Chelmsford Prison in January 2016 having been remanded there having injured his father who tried to...
A couple of days ago there was a demonstration in Dublin to pressure the government there to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CRPD), which Ireland has signed but...
'Wheelchair v buggy': Disabled man wins Supreme Court case — BBC News Today the Supreme Court gave its ruling on whether FirstBus, a major provider of bus services throughout the UK, discriminated against a...
Stonehenge Tunnel plan finalised by government — BBC News So, the government have finally agreed on plans to build a tunnel to the south of the ancient stone circle, Stonehenge, outside Amesbury in Wiltshire....
Last week Jill Saward (pronounced Say-ward), best known for having been the victim of the notorious "Ealing Vicarage" rape attack in 1986 in which she was raped and subjected to other sexual assaults and...
In today's Guardian, there is a piece by Giles Fraser about what might be the significance of the book Watership Down, whose author Richard Adams died earlier this week. Focusing on the part of...
On Friday evening a well-known western Muslim scholar, in an interview with the British journalist Mehdi Hasan at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) 2016 conference in Toronto, made some offensive and inaccurate remarks...
Update 26th Dec: Cyanogen, Inc. turned off CyanogenMod's web servers yesterday, likely in response to a final blog post from the team. The download site remains up until the end of the month. As...
Brandon Reid is a 16-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome whose family home is in Sheffield. He was in the news in November when a local paper and then the Daily Mail reported that the...
On Monday evening, someone hijacked a 40-tonne Scania articulated lorry, murdered the driver, and then drove it into the Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people. Police arrested a suspect, an asylum seeker from Pakistan,...
Why Sleaford matters more than Richmond – CapX Last week there were two by-elections in the UK triggered by resignations of MPs. One was in Richmond Park, in which Zac Goldsmith had resigned from...
Today the Home Secretary announced that she intends to proscribe the Far Right group National Action, which she describes as "a racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic organisation". An organisation can be proscribed if the home...
Update 12th December: The Disability Hate Crime Network has written to the Attorney General to seek a review of James Wheatley's sentence. Last week in Newcastle, a man who had imprisoned and tortured to...
Recently the idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) has gained a lot of traction in Left circles in the UK, with calls for Jeremy Corbyn to adopt it and try and make it...