An Ahmadiyyah geography lesson
This letter appeared in yesterday's Daily Mail in response to the article by David Goodhart about the Ahmadiyyah centre in Morden last Monday (see earlier article). The letter starts off by stating that her...
Category: Racism
“Merton’s not white anymore”, moans former liberal in the Daily Mail
A mega mosque in a suburb that was 90 per cent white 30 years ago and the polite apartheid dividing Britain | Mail Online Barely a month ago I responded to an article in...
Because nobody gets raped in England, do they?
BBC News – Barbados rapes: MP warns travellers island is 'unsafe' Stephen McPartland, Tory MP for Stevenage, has been putting pressure on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to declare that Barbados is “not a...
Acton’s not white anymore, moans Salisbury Reviewer
‘I feel like a stranger where I live’ – Telegraph This article appeared in today’s Telegraph and I had the ‘pleasure’ of seeing the print edition which has several stock images which are not...
What’s this? Hope Not Hate endorsing racism?
Hope Not Hate has reproduced an article by Shiraz Maher from the Spectator, titled “Few would shed tears if Britain barred Anjem Choudary from returning”. Choudary is currently in Pakistan attending a conference of...
What does it take to get locked up in Britain?
Shocking moment mother Amanda Lowe, 26, repeatedly stamps on man's head in racist attack | Mail Online A woman who took part with three men in a violent group attack on an Asian man,...
What’s wrong with the Green Mile?
Last night it was announced that the actor Michael Clarke Duncan, best known for playing John Coffey in the 1999 film The Green Mile, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name,...
The Olympics, Ramadan and racism
So, the Olympics has finally started. I had been planning an article last week about the chaos in the preparation for the Games, the security etc., and the traffic disruption that would result from...
Online bullies’ abuse is censorship, not free speech
Back in the days when Usenet was the main place online for discussion (if not the only), before web forums and blogs had been heard of (or at least, were anything like as sophisticated...
Trayvon Martin and rad-fem bigotry
Name the Problem « You think I just don't understand, but I don't believe you. (also here) I don’t normally follow American (or any other) radical feminist blogs, but I saw this when a...
Thusha Kamaleswaran, disability and anti-Black hostility
Last Monday, three men were found guilty of a shooting in south London that left a 5-year-old girl of Tamil origin, Thusha Kamaleswaran, paralysed from the chest down, and injured an Asian man, Roshan...
Review: Keith Allen meets Nick Griffin
Keith Allen Meets Nick Griffin – 4oD – Channel 4 Keith Allen has previously done a programme in which he interviewed what he called “the God Hates Fags sect in Topeka, Kansas”, and whose...
Review: Stacey Dooley on Luton’s fanatics
BBC Three – My Hometown Fanatics: Stacey Dooley Investigates Stacey Dooley is presented as someone who was plucked from working as a shop assistant at a perfume counter at Luton airport to presenting an...
Another pioneer for the Tory workfare scheme
There is a long article in today’s Guardian about the racism facing the Roma population in Hungary, which has faced acute discrimination since (at least) the end of Communism, particularly in the education system...
Nobody ever knows the heart of anyone else
The hearts of white people, part II « Abagond I saw this post after a friend on a social networking site posted a link to it. The author, who claims his blog is a...
Why we protect vulnerable prisoners
Yesterday the two men convicted of murdering the black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, when they were teenagers were jailed “at Her Majesty’s pleasure” (effectively a life sentence), one for a minimum of fourteen years and...
Is there money to burn in Basildon?
BBC iPlayer: The Big Gypsy Eviction This programme was on BBC1 last night (you can watch it until next Thursday, if you are in the UK) and is the result of six years of...
Attraction doesn’t depend on surveys
I heard the discussion on the Vanessa Feltz show this morning about the recent “study” done by an evolutionary psychologist, named Satoshi Kanazawa, who is based at the London School of Economics, which purports...
Minorities may die in Midsomer Massacres
The BBC doesn’t have a monopoly on ridiculous plotlines in its drama, despite the recent trends of Casualty, Holby City and EastEnders (not to mention the sappy ridiculousness of the school drama series, Waterloo...
How not to teach kids about the slave trade
Womanist Musings: When Is A Child Too Young to Learn About the Middle Passage? This story is about an incident in which two supply teachers decided to show a film called The Middle Passage,...