Category: Media

George Monbiot has an article in today’s Guardian (link is now to his site) about why there might be suspicion about the British government’s recent moves to get involved in the Darfur situation –...

The British charity Childline, which runs a helpline for children in need, has reported a 42% increase in bullying-related calls this year over last. An increasing number are from children 11 years old or...

The latest edition of The Ecologist (no prizes for guessing what it’s about) has recently come out. It’s a special feature on supermarkets: How they drive local business out of business How other local...

Polly Toynbee, an anti-religious liberal who writes regularly in the Guardian, mentioned today that she had been labelled the “Most Islamophobic Media Personality” of 2004 by the Islamic Human Rights Commission. I had not...

There is a real blood-boiler in today’s Guardian, Women and Children First by Natasha Walter, in which she explains how the immigration services seem to be targeting women and children for deportation and abuse....

A lot of our ‘ulama’ say that TV is haraam for various reasons, and the harm exposure to it causes children is not in much doubt. I just found this interesting piece on why...

The Angry Arab has posted a review of Michael Moore’s new film on his blog here. (Hat tip: Saraji.)

Of late a number of websites have sprung up attacking a section of the British population they call “chavs”, which roughly equates to “white trash” (I’ve never heard black people being called this). I...

We all know Nick Cohen as the opponent of the anti-war marches, who constantly alleged that the Stop the War coalition was an alliance of Marxists and religious reactionaries. Today in the New Statesman...

There was an interesting piece in the most recent New Statesman, regarding the rise of the star journalist as politician – referring, of course, to the loathsome Robert Kilroy-Silk. (You may be able to...

Crossing Continents, a current affairs programme broadcast on Radio 4, is discussing (as I type!) the subject of training imams in Europe. The government of the Netherlands has recently passed laws demanding that foreign...

I’m not sure why I’ve held up posting on this issue for so long, but a few months ago the BBC ran a series of features on a girl from England who was tricked...

It seems that every time there is a debate about the right of Muslim girls to wear headscarves to school, a guy called Denis MacEoin from Newcastle on Tyne gets his two pennies or...

Much column inches were taken up today by the verdict on Francisco Arce Montes, concerning the dreadful murder of Caroline Dickinson, a 13-year-old schoolgirl who was on a school trip to Brittany. It turns...

William Dalrymple (of White Mughals fame) has contributed a piece to today’s Guardian, “Saudi Arabia created the monster now devouring it”. It gives the usual account of the fitna caused by Wahhabi missionaries, and...

I was thoroughly glad to find a piece in the Guardian which told us it was OK to be indifferent as to whether “our boys” win the European championship this month or not. ‘It’s...

I’ve got a rather uncared-for Miscarriages of Justice page which I may have transferred to Blogistan but the link on my home page still points to my old Geocities site. It gives details of...

Another week, another Respect-bashing piece from a centre-left journo in the British press. The usual culprits are Nick Cohen and David Aaronovitch. (You can read the latest Aaronovitch piece here at the Guardian’s site.)...

If you’ve been reading carefully you’ll have noticed that one of our “correspondents” has quoted a hadith to the effect that “religion is the way we conduct ourselves toward others …”. I didn’t realise...