Green light for gridlock
Today the government gave its backing to plans to expand Heathrow airport in west London by building an extra runway to the north-west of the existing site, with all the necessary access roads and...
Category: Politics
Why is Quilliam pamphleteering about FGM?
Last week Quilliam, the self-styled counter-extremism think-tank set up by former member of Hizb-ut-Tahreer Maajid Nawaz, released a pamphlet on FGM written by one Muna Adil, complete with a foreword by Ayaan Hirsi Ali,...
The mystery of Ruth Wilson
Recently a half-hour film featuring Martin Bright, the former New Statesman, Spectator and Jewish Chronicle contributor, and a retired Northern Irish cop named Liam McAuley, was published on YouTube about the disappearance of a...
No, this treatment won’t save Demi’s life
This morning I came across an appeal to raise money to help an 11-year-old British girl, Demi Knight, to receive 'treatment' for her cancer in Houston, Texas, from a guy called Stanyslaw Burzynski at...
The Wadsworth affair and the “anti-Semitic trope” gambit
So, today a Labour and Momentum activist (and film-maker and co-founder of the campaign for justice for Stephen Lawrence) named Marc Wadsworth was expelled from the party by the National Constitutional Committee (NCC) for...
Has the “Human Rights movement” failed?
How the Human Rights movement failed (from the New York Times) In this article, Yale law and history professor Samuel Moyn argues that the backsliding of various countries such as the Philippines and Hungary,...
The Lib Dems’ despicable bargain
I sometimes regret the fact that I still live in a fairly affluent part of outer London which has been, for most of the past generation, a Lib Dem stronghold, particularly when I see...
About those free rides …
Some friends of mine have been sharing a Labour election video on Facebook. The 15-second video claims that the next Labour government will make bus travel free for under-25s in England before telling people,...
Keeping Corbyn out is not enough
Yesterday I came across a blog post by Nora Mulready, one of the most sanctimonious anti-Corbyn agitators among the centre-Left, welcoming the announcement of a "new party" in last Sunday's Observer — which, as...
Centrists must learn that it’s not 1997 anymore
According to a report in today's Observer (effectively the Guardian on Sunday), a group of "entrepreneurs, philanthropists and donors" have been developing plans for a new centrist party for about a year. The foundation,...
How (not) to argue with Brexiteers
Last Friday Nick Cohen posted a series of tweets about what he described as the tendency of Labour Remainers to "snuggle down in the soft warm bed of conspiracy theory" in explaining why the...
‘Sloven Health’ fined £2m
Today, the Hampshire based NHS trust Southern Health was fined nearly £2,000,000 for health and safety breaches in regard to the preventable deaths of two patients: Connor Sparrowhawk, the "Laughing Boy" of the Justice...
Thinking of becoming a Tory?
This week someone dug up a Facebook post from October 2012 by a muralist called "Mear One" which shows a mural of a bunch of bearded figures (which he explains as representing Jewish bankers)...
Enough of the naivety about Putin
Last week the British prime minister, Theresa May, took most of the action she had promised to do after the Russian government did not answer for the attempted murder of a former spy and...
Corbyn stands no chance without a second referendum
With every week that passes, new disadvantages to this country from Brexit become clear: yesterday it was revealed that Theresa May had confirmed that the UK would not be part of the EU's Digital...
Unite, but follow me
As a Muslim I have much experience of being lectured about 'unity' by certain people and most of it has come from people primarily responsible for causing the division. For example, almost every Ramadan...
Mental health campaigner Claire Greaves dies in Cygnet unit
I learned this morning that Claire Greaves, a mental health blogger and campaigner who has worked with Mind, Fixers and eating disorder charity Beat until she was moved to a secure unit in 2016,...
Woman’s Place: Is the tail wagging the dog?
Last night I went to a public meeting organised by a group called A Woman's Place UK (@Womans_Place_UK on Twitter), ostensibly to discuss the potential impact on proposed changes to the Gender Recognition Act...
Bawa-Garba supporters must stop attacking parents
In a previous post I expressed the opinion that the erasure of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba (right) from the medical register was a miscarriage of justice and that a medical practitioners' tribunal should not be...
Review: Dispatches, “Inside the Priory”
This documentary on Channel 4 last night (19th Feb) exposed abusive practices, short staff, over-reliance on temporary staff (including the undercover reporter for this programme) and poor safety at a hospital unit, The Dene...