Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
An all-party group of MPs has said that the roll-out of so-called smart motorways, in particular the "all lane running" (ALR) arrangement in which the hard shoulder is permanently converted into a driving lane...
A 29-year-old man who attacked a young boy because he thought he had bumped into his child's buggy while running for a bus received a suspended sentence (twelve months, suspended for two years) at...
Earlier this week an article appeared on Unherd by Douglas Murray, titled "Why are Jewish people 'wandering' again?". It was an interview with a Jewish lawyer called Mark Lewis, who along with his partner...
Elaine McDonald was the lady at the centre of a notorious 2011 Supreme Court ruling (see earlier blog in which she challenged the decision of Kensington and Chelsea borough council to refuse her a...
There was an anecdote I forgot to insert into my previous entry about the stereotype of the "liberal elite". Back in the early 2000s I was working as a van driver for a major...
In an interview for today's Times, the Brexiteer Tory MP for Witham in Essex said that a government report, leaked to the Times, which said that the economic impact of a no-deal Brexit could...
‘Gaslighting’ is a term coined fairly recently to refer to a kind of behaviour displayed by abusive individuals (particularly domestic and intimate-partner abusers) in which they use tricks to cast doubt on their victim’s...
A favourite claim of the alt-right, populist right, whatever you want to call them, is that their liberal opponents (whether they be in the Labour party, the Lib Dems themselves, the pro-European wing of...
Today, the Daily Mail launched a campaign to recruit a "volunteer army" to "help" the NHS starting next Spring, in conjunction with a "new social movement called Helpforce". The roles that volunteers are expected...
This week a video was circulated on social media of a Syrian refugee boy, named Jamal, with his arm in a cast being attacked in a park in Huddersfield by a group of boys...
Last Friday a bill sponsored by Lord Berkeley, a Labour life peer (who was formerly a hereditary peer) to extend family law protection to girls deemed at risk of FGM, was derailed by Christopher...
In this morning's Guardian, there's an investigation into abuse in British care homes and the homes involved care for the three main groups of care home residents — the elderly, those with learning disabilities...
This morning the Today programme on Radio 4 covered the story of Gerard Batten, the new leader of UKIP, hiring Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the former leader of the English Defence League, anti-Muslim agitator and self-styled...
Earlier today I came across an article announcing some research that had been done about British workers and their access to toilet breaks, or lack thereof, published by the trade union Unite. Thousands of...
Last week, a draft agreement for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) was published; it was some 500 pages long and, as could have been predicted, really pleased nobody. It prompted two Cabinet...
I've been a fan of the BBC dramas Casualty and Holby City since the 1980s, although I only started watching them on a regular basis again more recently (Casualty was a fixture when I...
This morning on a truck drivers' group on Facebook, I saw a link to a report on the Hull Daily Mail website (not linked to the national Daily Mail) which claimed that the proposal...
Recently social media has been abuzz with comment on the new government housing 'tsar', Roger Scruton, previously best known as a philosopher and commentator for various magazines including the Spectator and New Statesman. His...
Last week it was announced that Donald Trump favoured ending the automatic American citizenship of anyone born in the USA, which a number of conservative politicians claimed was constitutional although it clearly violates the...
Last Saturday, a racist gunman attacked a synagogue near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and killed 11 worshippers, including four Holocaust survivors, a married couple and two disabled brothers in their fifties; also killed was a doctor...