Category: Politics

I wasn’t able to blog the last few days, because of long work hours and being too tired yesterday (after a run to Milton Keynes on Friday evening, not getting back until after 11pm,...

I’ve just come back from a Respect rally at Friends’ House (a Quaker building) near Euston station in Central London. The speakers were George Galloway (of course), Yvonne Ridley, Anas Altikriti, Anjum Mirza of...

In response to the allegations of “kufr akbar” against anyone voting in the coming elections, I found two pages containing the opinions of various Islamic scholars on voting at the IACN web site in...

I wondered how long it would take before someone said that Ronnie Reagan wasn’t the great statesman some sections of the media have made him out to be since he finally snuffed it last...

Recently we all got a pamphlet through our door entitled London’s Elections – The Candidates with the manifestos of all the people putting themselves forward to be our mayor on June 10th. The candidates...

It’s 10 days to go until the election insha Allah, and today I went to two separate Respect engagements – a stall they were running in Kingston Green Fair which was here in Kingston...

Now that Michael Moore and his film have won the Palme D’Or in Cannes, I thought it was time to posit this possibility. We hear quite often that Kerry’s main draw is that he...

Today I was out in Kingston town centre again handing out the new newspaper-style election leaflets for the Respect Coalition. I had to wear a ‘jacket’ consisting of two of their “Bliar, Bliar, Iraq’s...

CNN reports that a former intelligence official has alleged that the recent abuse scandal in Abu Ghuraib prison was in fact the result of Donald Rumsfeld’s policy – not of the antics of a...

A couple of useful articles on the dangerously authoritarian tendencies of our current Home Secretary, David Blunkett: Now Blunkett plans to jail friends of terrorist suspects – Blunkett plans to jail people for merely...

This is an article by Gilad Atzmon, an Israeli dissident living in London. Here’s his website. (Thanks to J. Muhsin Kilby for the info.)

I just found this rather interesting article by George Monbiot about conflicts of interest in the debate over the safety of the MMR vaccine. Andrew Wakefield, who published a paper alleging links between the...

I just got forwarded an exceptionally dumb 419 invitation through a mailing list I’m on, in which someone claiming to be Dr Mitchell Obi of some Nigerian financial organisation appeals for someone to do...

It seems the Spanish – who, it must be remembered, did not want to get involved in Iraq to begin with – have had their fears confirmed by last week’s bombings in Madrid, and...

At the moment it is not certain that the bombings in Madrid, which has killed nearly 200 people at the time of this writing, was the work of Al-Qa’ida. It has been said that...

Here’s a piece from British IT site The Register about how a California judge has given the green light to Diebold – the company that’s committed to delivering Ohio’s votes to the President! http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/35664.html...

Today the Observer reveals that kids in schools are to be taught atheism, which, they say, should be welcomed, “for the move accepts a simple fact of modern life: that ours has become a...

Yet another British institution is found to be institutionally racist – and this time it’s the mental health system, which really shouldn’t surprise anyone. See BBC report but it’s all over the national British...