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Telegraph readers aghast at US email snoop demand

Telegraph Comment: Sinister security Surprisingly hostile response from the London Telegraph's "Digital Democrats" to the news of a deal between the US Homeland Security department and un-named Brussels Bureaucrats. Admittedly this comes from Europe,...

419 scammers using Yahoo Messenger

Has anyone else had 419 scammers try to chat them up using Yahoo (or any other) Messenger? Just now I had some idiot pretending to be one “Dr Lawson Koffi”, whose supposed position of...

Britain: the cost of separation

From today's Guardian: Scots and English would pay dearly for ending the union This article expresses a number of my own concerns about the prospect of Scotland becoming independent from the UK, or rather,...

Nazir-Ali jumps in on veil

Sunday Telegraph: Ban veils in public, says Asian bishop The Anglican Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali (son of a convert to Catholicism from Islam) jumps in on the latest bogus veil controversy by calling...

Unhappy Christmas

BBC NEWS: "I'm a risk to myself at Christmas" This article addresses the thing I hate most about Christmas – the fact that the whole country goes into shutdown mode, with no public transport...

Hindu bigots desecrate Muslim scholar’s grave

The Grave of Hakimul Ummah Desecrated – Contemplating Chishti Some disturbing reports from the Pakistani press about the desecration, suspected to be by fanatical Hindus in northern India, of the grave of Maulana Ashraf...

Borat’s Kazakh is actually Hebrew

Guardian Film: Secret of Borat's fluent Kazakh – it's Hebrew From the Guardian website: not only is the "Kazakh" spoken by Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat actually Hebrew, but the film is full of...

Letter to the BBC about Vanessa Feltz

This is a letter I wrote to David Robey, the managing editor of BBC London, about the Vanessa Feltz show last Monday, in which she recycled a story from the Daily Star about a...

No ‘Somali Taliban’

Did anyone see the Channel 4 documentary on the Islamists' takeover of southern Somalia yesterday evening (Unreported World, 7:30pm)? The documentary made repeated comparisons to the Taliban and alleged that the Islamic Courts Union...

Alice Walker and her views on Muslim women

Guardian Unlimited: No retreat Sara Wajid interviews the novelist Alice Walker, best known for writing The Color Purple and – uh, not much else. They discuss the recent elections, 9/11 and the reaction to...

Feltz pinches story from the Star

This morning, Vanessa Feltz took her BBC London radio show to a new low by recycling a story from the Black Hole, otherwise known as the Daily Star, about non-Muslims supposedly being banned from...

Pinochet: goodbye and good riddance

It was with some delight that I read the news this evening that General Pinochet had died. It cheered me up somewhat since I've been feeling rather depressed this week. I don't have any...