Dump him!
This is about a letter to Pamela Stephenson Connolly, the Guardian’s agony aunt for all things sexual. The letter is from a 27-year-old woman who had developed an eating disorder as a result of...
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Who is the philistine here?
There’s a letter in today’s Guardian in response to a debate about the virtues of Pimlico comprehensive school, a concrete-and-glass building designed by the architectural team at the then Greater London Council which was...
“My parents say I’m ugly…”
There is a letter in the weekend section of today’s Guardian from a teenage girl to an advice columnist called Annalisa Barbieri, who answers a question each week about difficulties with family relations. This...
Muslim women don’t owe solidarity to bigots
This morning I was listening to Vanessa Feltz’s phone-in show in London which is every weekday from 9am to noon. I tuned in just before 10am at which point I was heading out on...
Letter to the Guardian on Niqaab
I wrote this letter last Thursday after seeing a series of very hostile letters in the *Guardian* following Kira Cochrane’s article in which she interviewed women who wear the *niqaab* (who had been conspicuously...
An Ahmadiyyah geography lesson
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...
Women respond to Melville
Following my [rant](https://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/04/05/is_the_hijab_just_a_waste_of_t) about Kate Melville’s [letter](http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/04/hijab-niqab-islam-muslims) in last Saturday’s Guardian, two women (one Muslim, one probably not) [respond](http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/07/letters-hijab-islam-women) in today’s paper: >Kate Melville weeps for the hijab- and niqab-wearing Muslim women who have...
The importance of religious over ethnic solidarity
Last week, the New Statesman printed a letter from Randhir Singh Bains of Essex, whose letters commonly appear in the centre-left press in the UK, about the history of inter-Asian solidarity in the UK:...
Why the US election is everyone’s business
Jonathan Freedland: McCain or Obama? The US election result will have a huge impact on us | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Or, to use the actual headline, “This pansy-ass limey Brit won’t butt...
The Spectator prints my letter, with more twaddle from Roddle
The Spectator (with my letter!) The Spectator (a right-of-centre British political magazine, formerly edited by Boris Johnson) has printed a letter from me in the current edition, written in reply to Rod Liddle who...
More on silly 9/11 conspiracy theories
As an example of the sort of silly conspiracy-mongering George Monbiot was talking about in his article in the Guardian on Tuesday (which I linked), here is a reply to it (third letter down),...
Busybodies on niqab (2)
It’s still open season on niqabis, as the *Independent* prints four letters in response to Deborah Borr’s attack on them in Saturday’s edition. The letters can be read [here](http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article1169713.ece) in the left-hand column (not...
Another busybody article about hijab
A woman called Deborah Orr (or should that be Deborah Borr) wrote an article for today’s (Saturday’s) *Independent* attacking Muslim women who cover their faces ([1], [2]), alleging that face coverings are “are physical...
Anti-EU party lunacy
A short letter in today’s Sunday Telegraph wonders why Kilroy gave his party (of which we haven’t heard much since it was founded; wonder why?) a Latin name, Veritas (meaning Truth in English or...
Randhir’s at it again
Randhir Singh Bains of Gants Hill has got yet another letter in the Sunday Telegraph today (registration may be needed – it’s free). (Bains, as I’ve pointed out before, is a frequent writer of...