Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Last week Professor Stephen Hawking pulled out of a conference in Israel, reportedly as part of an academic boycott of Israeli institutions on the grounds of it operating an Apartheid-type regime against its Palestinian...
"I'm not a 'person with a disablity', I'm a disabled person" (from xojane by Lisa Egan) Recently I've noticed that a number of blogs by disabled people in the UK insist on referring to...
I received a letter today from the Attorney General’s office, in response to an open letter I had sent (which many readers of this blog had signed) regarding the sentence of Jordan Sheard, who...
This post is part of Blogging Against Disabilism Day 2013 Rosa Monckton, as I have written on this page before, is an extremely privileged lady. I do not mean privilege as in white or,...
Recently there has been a major outbreak of measles in South Wales, thought to be largely the result of large numbers of parents not getting their children vaccinated during the MMR scare of 1998....
Margaret Jean "Jenny" Hatch is an American woman, aged 29, with Down's syndrome. Until early last year, she lived independently in Newport News, Virginia, and had been working in her friends' store. She had...
Now that I've got your attention … There's currently a measles outbreak in South Wales, the reason for which is that a lot of parents didn't vaccinate their children with the MMR vaccine during...
Open letter to Keir Starmer regarding Jordan Sheard (public) – Google Drive The above is an editable open letter — it is editable so that you can add your name to the bottom of...
Jessica Taylor has severe ME, and has been bedridden for seven years. She has previously made another video, “The World of One Room”, in which she describes how the disease has affected her life:...
This cartoon accompanies a Daily Mail piece which was published today, alleging that people are rushing to claim Disability Living Allowance in the last weeks before it is phased out. Bernadette Meaden has a...
The story of Oscar Pistorius's shooting of his girlfriend has been going on for a week and a half now, and last Friday, after a four-day bail hearing, he was released on bail of...
The Asperkid’s (Secret) Book of Social Rules: The Handbook of Not-So-Obvious Social Guidelines for Tweens and Teens with Asperger Syndrome – book information – Jessica Kingsley Publishers I recently came across the above title...
Newsflash! Claire Khaw Arrested, Apparently For Blog Post Accusing Jessica Thom Of Putting On Tourettes « Same Difference Claire Khaw is the blogger best known for getting onto various radio talk-shows and online forums...
In the current New Year honours, Professor Simon Wessely has received a knighthood and will henceforth be known as Professor Sir Simon Wessely. In this he joins the company of Roy Meadow, the doctor...
Christians have no right to refuse to work on Sundays, rules judge – Telegraph This is the latest appeal in the case of Celestine Mba, a former carer for children with learning disabilities in...
The problem with privilege-checking by Tom Midlane (from the New Statesman website) I had this article tweeted at me earlier this week and the accompanying comment read "Privilege is a myth. Guess before you...
This past week I heard some very happy news from the family of Ayn van Dyk, the young autistic Canadian girl who was seized from her home by social workers in British Columbia after...
Last Wednesday the secretary of state for health, Jeremy Hunt, made a speech at the King’s Fund on “the quality of care”, in which he alleged, among other things, that there had been a...
Yet again, Casualty gets the medical facts wrong in one of their plotlines. This time the condition involved was Morquio syndrome (pronounced Morkio), a genetic disorder which results in dwarfism, spinal defects and visual...
Last Friday I wrote here about Simon Wessely, the psychiatric professor at King’s College Hospital in London who is notorious for promoting psychological theories about certain chronic illnesses, won an award for “courage” presented...