Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
An investigation by the Sunday Telegraph (free registration may be required) reveals that the notoriously anti-Islamic British National Party (commonly called British Nazi Party, or as Amir Brooks memorably called them, Bigots with No...
It seems there’s been yet another spurious anti-Semitism row in the UK after Gypsy leaders accused Michael Howard (the right-wing opposition leader who, along with the Murdoch gutter rag The Sun – AKA The...
Michael Howard looks like he’s in trouble, because he told the parents of a toddler who died after being shot with an air gun that he opposes banning them. Now, I really do want...
Tesco is the biggest of the UK’s supermarket chains by a long way, and besides its big superstores both in town centres and outside, it also runs stores at Esso petrol stations and has...
This morning they were talking on the Jon Gaunt show about the issue of black boys and the problems they face, and present, in British schools. The whole thing was touched off by Trevor...
The Independent is reporting today that the Government intends to establish “prestigious” new boarding schools for troubled teenagers as part of plans to renovate run-down inner-city areas. A senior government advisor says that “at...
The most recent edition of the Spectator (a British political magazine, edited by the Tory MP Boris Johnson) protests against the one-sided extradition agreement passed in 2003. In this case, it’s three bankers who’ve...
I’ve put this entry under the Politics header as I’ve got no intention of dedicating a whole category (not that it would use up much space) to the saga of Prince Charles’ allegedly impending...
With that flying pig poster barely out of people’s minds, it seems that someone else has made the mistake of “crossing” a certain ethno-religious community. The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, got into a...
A few depressing news stories today leave me wondering for how long this country will still be worth living in. This morning, they were discussing on the Jon Gaunt show a proposal to limit...
The Independent is reporting that Robert Kilroy-Silk is, in reality, not the leader of Slurritas despite being its “star” and founder: “The fact that Kilroy quit UKIP so very acrimoniously because they refused to...
Last week Labour issued a poster with the heads of Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin (in case nobody knew or cared, they’re Jewish) superimposed on winged pigs, next to the slogan “The day the...
For anyone who’s heard all the speculation about Robert Kilroy-Silk’s new party, called “Veritas” (Latin for truth), but missed the actual launch … I thought I’d present a link to a rundown on Kilroy’s...
Has anyone seen the Labour Party’s new election poster, with its pictures of two flying pigs, with the faces of Michael Howard and his shadow chancellor (i.e. opposition economic spokesman) Oliver Letwin superimposed on...
I am expecting this to be a long entry. The papers today have been full of reports of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the Nazi camp in southern...
I got this report off an email list I subscribe to; this is really the sort of thing which makes me angry – a family is being split up because the husband’s asylum claim...
Much as I thoroughly detest the Tories and everything they stand for, I have to admire the recent move (so far only in the Daily Telegraph, a noted Tory paper) towards calling for better...
A few days ago I posted an entry on Yusuf al-Qaradawi, whose meeting with the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, and subsequent defence of it, has produced an awful lot of controversy. I reject...
I was rather sickened to read that Mark Thatcher got a suspended sentence and a fine (yes, a six-figure one, but all the same …) for involvement in trying to start off a military...
George Monbiot has a piece in today’s Guardian (which may shortly appear at his website) regarding the Great Skye Toll Bridge Rip-off in which a bridge was built linking mainland Scotland with the Isle...