Category: Media

One of the things I like about going up town on Thursday, as I did for the rally this week, is that you get to read some of the magazines a day earlier than...

I can’t think of a better title for a post about the case of a young female teacher found guilty yesterday of seducing an even younger pupil at her school, but I thought it...

Earlier this year I bought the CD by Lynne Truss, Cutting a Dash, a BBC Radio 4 series on which Eats, Shoots and Leaves was based. The first episode was about the apostrophe, a...

Last week there was a demonstration outside the US embassy in London against the desecration of the Qur’an by American guards in the Guantánamo Bay concentration camp. The group was organised by Stop Political...

There was a bizarre article in the Guardian yesterday in which Peter Tatchell (a London-based gay activist) attempts to make a homosexual and a gay icon out of a great Muslim hero, Malcolm X....

Ginny yesterday linked to a plainly inauthentic story detailing the life of someone called “Ann” who made the mistake of marrying a rather nasty man from Syria. The story, Ann’s Story: My Life with...

I’m not sure how much my earlier blog entry on Aberystwyth has to do with this, but I’ve been getting a flurry of comments the last couple of days on my entry What’s Going...

Every so often I get suggestions that I attempt to refute bloggers and columnists who peddle an unbalanced view of Islam in their writings, and the name of Jamie Glazov has come up twice...

You never know what a Google news search may bring you up against. I went looking for news reports on the conviction of Ali al-Timimi on charges of encouraging Muslims in the USA to...

I got a message through a new Muslims’ mailing list I’m on about the Daily Mail’s call for stories about western women converting to Islam. The catch, according to my source, is that they...

I found (via Discarded Lies) an intriguing attack on my old university at Aberystwyth on Melanie Phillips’ website. For American readers, Melanie Phillips is a columnist who writes for the Daily Mail, but used...

I’m watching yet another of Channel 4’s epic Top 100 shows – in this case, 100 Greatest Kids’ TV Shows. This thing started at 8pm, when most kids go to bed given that tomorrow’s...

Those of you in the UK should read the lead article in this week’s New Statesman, which is a largely Labour-supporting political weekly. It’s by Cristina Odone, a regular contributor who was formerly deputy...

Jihad Watch has just posted a story from the AKI website (based in Italy), about Abdullah Faisal, the Jamaican ultra-Wahhabi preacher currently serving time in the UK for incitement to murder, urging the poorer...

I’m in the process of watching the BBC’s Crimewatch programme which appears every month. I couldn’t help noticing that the BBC’s presenters could not pronounce two Muslim names: Ahmadi and Ostadzadeh. The second, in...

Pearsell Helms slaps down a recent Mark Steyn diatribe cheering on the fall of the EU here: Cry of the Neocons: WE WANT EURABIA!

A letter in today’s Daily Telegraph, from Bob Hughes of Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Sir – Maxine Carr is being blamed for wasting taxpayers’ money over the preservation of her anonymity and safety (News, Feb 25)....

The BBC reports that a guy from Gloucester called Sajid Badat has been found guilty of conspiring to carry out a shoe-bomber type attack on a plane from Amsterdam to the USA. Let’s get...