With friends like this …
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Jackson friend claims paternity “Mark Lester, a former child star and long-time friend of Michael Jackson, says he could be the father of one of the late pop star’s...
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British immigration separate mother and daughter for 7 years
Asylum seekers speak: 'Nothing can give us back the last seven years' — from today's Guardian This is the story of how a woman who had fled persecution, including rape, in Uganda after being...
BBC & Open Uni debunk ‘Muslim Demographics’
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Debunking a YouTube hit The BBC’s radio programme More or Less, produced in collaboration with the Open University, debunk the notorious “Muslim Demographics” video which has been a big...
Murdoch plans to charge for online content
The Guardian today reported that Rupert Murdoch is planning to make the websites for his Times and Sun newspapers, and no doubt his foreign titles as well, a paid-for resource rather than a free...
DNA casts doubt on Luke Mitchell’s guilt
Luke Mitchell is someone I didn't want to be guilty when I heard the case on the news at the time, but after the verdict and the sentence I had to concede. However, any...
Whole Foods UK ‘£36m in the red’
The Guardian reports today that the British operation of Whole Foods Market, which took over the old Fresh and Wild organic chain and opened up a huge supermarket in a former department store in...
“Birthers” can neither be ignored nor engaged
To engage the birther fantasists is futile; to dismiss them, reckless by Gary Younge in today’s Guardian They shouldn’t be engaged with, according to Gary Younge, because their claims are fantastic and have been...
Digital Niqabi on fitna and niqab
The sister known as Digital Nomad has posted two interesting entries recently, the most recent on this nonsense of condemning mobile phones as a cause of fitna and fornication. This is not just within...
BNP Islamophobia not just a PR stunt
Martin Sullivan at Islamophobia Watch on his ongoing debate with Edmund Standing, a contributor to Harry’s Place and author of a recent think tank report which plays up the BNP’s anti-Semitism and plays down...
Sterilisation: it wasn’t just the Nazis
Recently the papers and talk shows have been abuzz about a woman in her thirties who has had thirteen babies, all of whom have been taken away from her — most of them at...
Why illegal dumping is no joke
BBC News: Families win birth defect battle This is about a group of families who sued the local council in Corby, an old steel town in the east Midlands, for birth defects caused by...
Further evidence of Human Rights Commission incompetence
Moi Ali on the incompetence of the Equality and Human Rights Commission | Society | The Guardian This appeared on the front page of the Guardian Society supplement today, and was flagged up on...
“Comedy”: the new nasty
The Guardian has dedicated its G2 supplement today to comedy, and the lead feature is about the new tendency towards offensiveness in comedy. This includes jokes about Muslims (we're all queer), Chinese people, Gypsies,...
Boo hoo! Anti-Muslim social engineering rules hit white couple
BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | Enforced marriage law forces couple apart This is the story of a couple consisting of a British man and his Canadian bride, who married quite legally in...
Big Trev’s leadership pushes out equality staff
Perhaps to my discredit, I have not taken a great interest in the workings of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the successor to several official equality commissions set up to monitor various anti-discrimination...
TMI about Aleppo rape victim?
I’m sure many of you have heard the story of the young girl who suffered terrible injuries in a gang rape in Aleppo last month; you can read the story in English here. There...
US casino funds Israeli settlements
Gambling with peace: how US bingo dollars are funding Israeli settlements — The Guardian Revealing how money raised from a casino frequented mostly by Latinos in California is funding Jewish settlement expansion in the...
Debunking Eurabia myths
Dispelling the Myth of Eurabia — Newsweek.com This is the lead article from the current edition of Newsweek, in which scare stories about Europe being taken over by Muslims by means of immigration and...
How many Muslims has Wootton Bassett?
A guy called Shaaz Mahboob, one of the founder members of the so-called British Muslims for Secular Democracy (along with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Taj Hargey), has written a guest post on Pickled Politics accusing...
What’s the use of Twitter?
Last Wednesday, the Guardian had a feature from “inside Twitter HQ” based on interviews with the founders of the service. The article gave potted histories of the founders, two of whom were formerly involved...