Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
This morning I saw a Twitter thread (starts [here](https://twitter.com/joedgoldberg/status/960908837397155841), ends [here](https://twitter.com/joedgoldberg/status/960908890006319110)) from Haringey councillor Joe Goldberg, purporting to expose the middle-classness and inauthenticity of the pro-little-people and anti-establishment stance of the Guardian columnist Aditya...
So, Heathrow expansion is in the news again, with another round of consultations being by the government this week and a report, the [Airports National Policy Statement](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/10/24/heathrow-consultation-launched-mps-prepare-debate-impact-scheme/), being released which, according to the Daily...
Earlier this week the minicab firm Uber, which allows people to hire cabs using an app which calculates the fare to their destination, lost its licence to operate in London and will have to...
[London mayor Sadiq Khan issues £2.5m VW congestion charge call](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38043574) So, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, is demanding that Volkswagen pay up £2.5m to compensate the London taxpayer for a discount that drivers...
Last Wednesday, Ben Butler, a convicted armed robber and serially violent offender from Sutton in south London, was convicted of murdering his six-year-old daughter Ellie in 2013 and sentenced to life in prison, with...
As I write this, the first preference votes for the London mayoral election are counted and Sadiq Khan has won 44.2% of them (on a turnout of only 45.3%); second preferences are being counted,...
Yesterday I decided to have a walk through the Olympic Park, which opened a couple of weeks ago after having been closed since the end of the Olympics in 2012. I was excited that...
Last week I read that a Chinese businessman has presented plans to rebuild the old Crystal Palace on its old site at the top of Crystal Palace Park in south-east London. Ni Zhaoxing, chairman...
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...
Yesterday there was a report published by the Tory think-tank Policy Exchange (previously discussed here as a source of reports from spies in mosques) which proposed that councils should be forced to sell off...
The last four days, the UK has seen a whole lot of events related to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee (marking 60 years on the throne) and these included a flotilla on the Thames through...
Last night, we discovered that Boris Johnson, the Tory mayor of London elected in 2008, had been re-elected: he gained 44% of first-preference votes against Livingstone’s 40.3%; when second-preference votes were counted, his vote...
London is having its mayoral elections on 3rd May this year (most people know about the elections; the date hasn’t been so widely mentioned on the news) and the two main candidates are Ken...
OK, well I’m up London — right now, in the Apple Store in Covent Garden — where I had intented to take some pictures of the scenes surrounding the royal wedding. I wouldn’t have...
Earlier this week I heard on the news that the Royal Mail were closing down two of their big London sorting depots, namely Bow and Nine Elms. I’ve worked at Nine Elms and it...
As I start writing this entry, the western extension to the London congestion charge ceases. The charge is being suspended over Christmas and New Year, and will return after that in its original boundaries...
The X26 is the bus I’ve been commuting to work on most of this week. It has one main benefit, which is that it runs directly from New Malden, where I live, to Croydon,...
I’ve not always been a coffee drinker – I was first introduced to it by my Mum and it was an instant, and not sweet to my no doubt immature taste buds. I came...
The other day, just after I finished my post on the “communication shutdown” supposedly in aid of autism, the fire alarm went off in the Bentalls centre in Kingston where I had written it...
Yesterday a branch of Barclays bank was robbed near London. It happened in Ashford — not the one in Kent where the Eurostar trains stop, but the quiet suburban sprawl north of Staines which...