Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Yesterday Theo Bertram, a former advisor to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, posted a tweet thread (starts here, ends here) on his work as part of Labour's research team during the 2005 general election...
Last week the issue of postal voting reform in the UK was in the news again, after a judge who had found six Labour councillors in Birmingham guilty of postal voting fraud in 2005,...
As expected, the blogosphere is up in arms about George Galloway’s winning the Bethnal Green & Bow seat. I’ve made it clear in the past that I don’t think he’s a good MP or...
It’s been a hectic couple of days; I voted on the way to a job which came up late; another job came up for today in the middle of that job which itself finished...
There’s a whole load of new reports about possible election fraud: In Bethnal Green and Bow, the Guardian reports that dozens of electors are registered at properties in Brick Lane which are in fact...
Brother Atif Imtiaz at Bradford Muslim reported a few days ago that one of the elders in Birmingham whose name appeared at the bottom of a letter in the Guardian on 12th April telling...
I had prepared an article on yesterday’s fiasco at Central Mosque in London in which, it seems, former members of al-Muhajiroun disrupted a presentation by the Muslim Council of Britain and assaulted Iqbal Sacranie....
On my trip up to London yesterday, I picked up a copy of the Camden New Journal which is one of those papers you find in boxes free for anyone to take. It also...
I just saw the Tories’ party election broadcast for the first time, and I was unimpressed, to say the least. Actually, immigration didn’t play as much of a part in it as it did...