In praise of hypocrisy
This morning the Daily Mirror reported that the former Education Secretary, Ruth Kelly, had sent her dyslexic son to a special private school because she felt that the provision in her area, Tower Hamlets...
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“Ashley” and sterilising the severely disabled
I'm sure none of us has missed the story of "Ashley", the nine-year-old from Washington state whose parents subjected her to major surgery, removing her reproductive system and breast buds and giving her hormone...
Joe Queenan: the recurring white hope
From Friday's Guardian film/music review section, Joe Queenan on a recurring theme in Hollywood films prominently featuring Africa or black people generally: that "no matter how bleak the situation seems, they can always rely...
Secular fundamentalists “the new totalitarians”
Tobias Jones (of The Dark Heart of Italy fame) on militant atheists who behave like totalitarians, hiding among anti-sexists, anti-homophobes and anti-racists, but in reality seeking to erase religion totally from the Earth, starting...
Another false exposé by right-wing bloggers
Comment is free: Victim of the bloggers Brian Whitaker of how "patriotic" right-wing American bloggers saw a conspiracy where there was none, alleging that an Iraqi police captain, Jamil Hussain, was someone the Associated...
Is Ken really the man for this job?
In a couple of weeks' time there will be a conference in London, "A World Civilisation or a Clash of Civilisations", featuring a long list of speakers including Ken Livingstone (the mayor of London),...
Manzoor: “Brits should integrate with Muslim values”
Sarfraz Manzoor, a regular contributor to the Guardian and Observer on the so-called Muslim values which gives our community its supposed strength: Muslim parents also tend to be less interested in child-centred parenting and...
Foreign drivers and safety
This morning on Radio 5 Live, the BBC’s AM rolling news/discussion station, they were discussing the topic of whether immigration was good for “your wallet” or not, a somewhat inflammatory topic inspired by yet...
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,...
Pointless alliances with ignorant Americans
The other day Umar Lee posted his comments on the ignorance of provincial white Americans in response to the moronic remarks of the Congressman Virgil Goode, who wrote to his constituents in response to...
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...
Khadijah Atkinson’s alternative Christmas message
YouTube – Channel 4's alternative Christmas message This is the Alternative Christmas Message that Channel 4 broadcast after the earlier candidate, Khadija Ravat, pulled out after discovering that the community was opposed and that...
What’s wrong with hanging Saddam?
Yesterday Saddam Hussain’s automatic appeal against his death sentence was rejected, and it was announced that he has to be hanged within 30 days, and that it could happen much sooner. Today, he was...
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...
Reactions to the latest fake veil scandal
Comment is free: Lifting the veil Rajnaara Akhtar (chair of Protect Hijab) on the recent fake scandal involving the Somali who was involved in murdering the policewomen Sharon Beshenivsky and supposedly might have escaped...
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...
British immigration “infiltrated by Ugandan agent”
In reading various reports about the situation of people being refused asylum despite having been raped, tortured or having other strong claims, the name Uganda seems (with hindsight) to have turned up again and...