Category: Media

Last week Yvonne Ridley wrote an article in the Observer about the hostile reaction her headscarf has caused when going about her business in London, including jibes about bombs and “Chechen black widows”, and...

I am just about getting sick to the back teeth of our moronic Home Secretary David Blunkett (Plonkett) and the liberties people allow him to take just because he’s blind (and let’s face it,...

The BBC has been much criticised in recent months for airing a series of scare stories about “what might happen” in a number of given situations. There was a gridlock story, I think, and...

The Ecologist is probably the best environmental magazine here in the UK – it’s got hard-hitting and relevant news about the environmental situation without too much of the quasi-spiritual stuff you find in certain...

I’m sure a lot of you have heard that the UK may be about to pass a law intended to ban “incitement to religious hatred”, which plugs a loophole in the existing law on...

There is a story just posted to BewleyUpdates, from Asians in Media (space it differently and it could say Asian Sin Media!) about the Sun newspaper’s newest columnist – one Anila Baig, a hijab-wearing...

Jon Gaunt's show this morning demonstrated how much respect has gone out of our society and how anti-intellectualism has come into fasion – perhaps not to the same extent as in the USA, but...

There is an article in today’s Guardian by the Lebanese-Australian novelist Nada Jarrar, about the phenomenon of horror stories about the life of Muslim women being published in the west, with particular focus on...

Gary Younge, in the Guardian today, has an opinion piece on the tendency of the liberal left to criticise religious people, as in America, while overlooking their own fundamentalism in opposition to religion. Towards...

I was listening to Radio 4’s Feedback programme this afternoon, and there was a feature on the response to a piece on the BBC’s From Our Own Correspondent programme. The piece, Yasser Arafat’s unrelenting...

Jon Gaunt, BBC London‘s notorious morning talk show presenter, had a feature today about two issues affecting Muslims in the UK. One was about a shopping centre in Birmingham supposedly banning Santa Claus in...

There was an article in yesterday’s Times (a Murdoch-owned London broadsheet) urging Americans to reject “this failed statesman” GW Bush. You can find it here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-1334479,00.html (Hat tip: Bushflash who reproduced the article in...

Yesterday Jon Gaunt was discussing the subject of a six-year-old girl who was pulled out of school by her mother because a teacher dragged her half-naked into assembly in front of a mixed audience...

I wrote a letter to the Sunday Telegraph after they printed a reply to Randhir Singh Bains’ letter about the privileges we supposedly enjoy. The letter they printed was about the “animal cruelty” (i.e....

The Guardian today reveals that more than one in four students admit to sleeping during lecture times, 63% have sent text messages, and 25% were dissatisfied with the standard of teaching, according to an...

A report from today’s Guardian, on how the Russian media, much of it owned by establishment figures who are trying to curry favour with Putin’s gang. The author of this report was the victim...

I don’t know how many of my readers regularly read Townhall.com, a site by the Heritage Foundation which contains an archive of articles by various right-wing columnists. Dennis Prager is one of them. The...

The September/October 2004 edition of Mother Jones has hit the shelves of Borders here in the UK (I don’t know how many other outlets stock it), and on page 50 there’s a story by...