Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Since the terrorist attack on Indian tourists in Kashmir this week, in which two of the attackers were reported to be Pakistanis (which according to the Hindu nationalist/fascist government in India implicates the whole...
Last week a Muslim primary school in Ilford and a mosque also in east London received threatening letters. The letter sent to the school is addressed “Dear pedophiles” (sic) and signed “your terrorist friend”;...
The term Islamophobia was popularised, as I recall, in the 1990s to refer to hostility to Muslims in the European context. The logic behind it seems to be that people were hostile to Muslims...
Last week the Labour leader Keir Starmer, who polls suggest is now likely to easily win any general election held in the next couple of years (and one is due no later than December...
In the most recent local elections in the UK, Labour gained a couple of flagship councils from the Tories but lost two councils it had held for some years to the Tories, namely Croydon in the south and Harrow in the north-west.