Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Debunking of misleading geography in the media
Anyone who uses Facebook will have noticed a pattern recently: that their news feed has less of their friends’ posts and more adverts and clickbait from various ‘news’ sites. The clickbait is often poorly...
Over the years I’ve noticed that a standard tactic of the dishonest journalist or columnist in the age of the Internet is to rely on the geographical ignorance of your overseas audience, most of...
This letter appeared in yesterday’s *Daily Mail* in response to the article by David Goodhart about the Ahmadiyyah centre in Morden last Monday (see [earlier article](https://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2013/03/26/mertons-not-white-anymore-moans-former-liberal-in-the-daily-mail)). The letter starts off by stating that her...
In Nigel Farage’s local pub, there are no Ukip activists, ‘just friends’ | Politics | The Observer This “sketch” appears next to a large feature on UKIP and their plans to target northern England...