Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Earlier today Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner who was choked to death by New York police for illegally selling cigarettes in 2014 (one of a series of unarmed Black Americans, mostly men,...
An online women's publication called "The Establishment" last year published an article attacking the editing of Anne Frank's diary by her father, Otto Frank, for publication in the 1940s after the death of the...
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...
It's long been a cliché that Prince William represents a "new generation" of British royalty who are unencumbered by the prejudices and stifling customs of their grandparents in particular — the ones who got...
Recently I've noticed a trend among Muslims in the online community of associating Muslims and Islam with 'brown-ness' and in opposition to 'whiteness' as well as the uncritical parroting of dogmas which are in...
The controversy over supposed anti-Semitism on the left of the Labour party continues, with the Times publishing an article (paywalled) the other day proclaiming that Jeremy Corbyn had been called upon to throw out...
Earlier today I saw a Twitter thread posted by the Labour MP Stephen Kinnock (son of Neil) who is a member of the Brexit select committee in Parliament (starting here, ending here, claiming among...
Over the weekend the so-called UK Independence Party published as part of its 2017 election manifesto an "integration agenda" which includes a ban on face coverings, which it describes as a "deliberate barrier to...
There's an article in today's Mail on Sunday by Dan Hodges, a Blairite columnist and former GMB union and Labour party staffer (and son of Glenda Jackson), proclaiming that anyone who remains a member...
Readers of a certain age will remember the character of Barry Kent from Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series of books about a young man growing up in the Midlands (of England) in the 1980s...
Yesterday Channel 4 News broadcast a conversation involving Jack Buckby, the "outreach officer" and former parliamentary candidate for 'Liberty GB', and Barbara Ntumy, deputy president of the London Metropolitan University students' union and a...
On Friday evening a well-known western Muslim scholar, in an interview with the British journalist Mehdi Hasan at the Reviving the Islamic Spirit (RIS) 2016 conference in Toronto, made some offensive and inaccurate remarks...
Let’s be clear – antismetism is a hate apart | Howard Jacobson | Opinion | The Guardian The above is in last Sunday's Observer, and is part of a genre of articles in which...
Today the government announced its preferred option for airport expansion in the south-east of England, and as had been expected, that was a third runway at Heathrow in west London. The other main option...
Last week I was working at a site just north of Heathrow airport, the quickest route to which is down the Heathrow spur and off at the bottom. On Friday morning I was returning...
Since I wrote my last piece on the left and claims of "anti-Semitism" against Labour students and the Left more generally, a spate of claims of anti-Semitism against various Labour politicians, two of them...
Recently accusations have started flying that the Left, including the Labour party, has a 'problem' with anti-Semitism and that Jeremy Corbyn, the party's leader, hasn't been doing enough to combat it. The accusations include...
Last Thursday Channel 4 broadcast a 65-minute-long discourse by Trevor Phillips, former head of the Commission for Racial Equality and then (after its amalgamation with all the other equality bodies) the Equality and Human...
A few people I know yesterday tweeted an article by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the mainstream media's favourite "Muslim" and authority on all things Asian, which claimed that "in-your-face racism" had returned and that she was...
Last week seven men from Oxford were found guilty of various sexual offences, including rape, for ‘grooming’ young girls and ultimately raping and allowing other men to rape them. Many of them were in...