Who gets believed?
Recently a lot of people have been retweeting a tweet by one Amanda Brown Lierman, "political & Organizing Director for @theDemocrats" (not sure if she means the whole party or a local branch of...
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Teenage boys do know rape is wrong
In the debate over whether the conservative American judge Bret Kavanaugh is fit to serve as a Supreme Court judge, an accusation has emerged that when in high school, he held down and groped...
What is a garment of liberty, really?
A couple of years ago there was a sketch on a Canadian comedy show (starts at 01:26), the Baroness Von Sketch Show, in which a woman walks into a clothing store and tries on...
On mental health care and staying connected
A few years ago I wrote a post on here (The Importance of Staying Connected) about how the Internet had changed from being a niche service which few people outside academia had access to,...
Why Muslims should protest public insults to the Prophet
Geert Wilders (or Geert Hitlers as I call him), a far-right Dutch opposition politician, has cancelled an event he had been planning (or claimed to have been planning) this coming November, a contest for...
Why “Jewish fears”, even if genuine, are misplaced
Last week I saw two blog articles published by self-described left-wing Zionists, one of whom I know through disability activist circles, about why they are concerned about the "rising tide" of anti-Semitism in the...
Muslimander TV: Are Asian lads lost, or is Mehreen Baig?
Lost Boys? What's Going Wrong for Asian Men (BBC iPlayer, available in UK only until about 12th September) Last Sunday there was an hour-long programme on BBC2 purported to be about the problems facing...
Why did I just lose 25 followers?
The other day I logged onto an unfollower tracker and discovered that I'd lost 19 followers, which is rather unusual (I often lose a few over the average week, often suspended accounts — which...
Who wears the burqa?
In an earlier entry I discussed the unhelpful 'defence' of niqaab that only a few thousand women wear the garment. However, a side argument is that only a few hundred wear the burqa, the...
Rex Bob Lowenstein would make a bad politician
As I mentioned two posts back about the niqaab controversy, Boris Johnson found an ally in the former (and possibly future) UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who made a comment on BBC London radio to...
Another lesson in diplomacy
As Muslims face the consequences of Britain's one-time "top diplomat" insulting an ethnic minority (and, by extension, the women of a number of the countries where Britain could do with having friendly relations) and...
Niqaab row brings out the ‘Muslimanders’
Two days after the controversy over Boris Johnson comparing Muslim women who wear the niqaab to letterboxes and bank-robbers became big news, the party is facing calls to demand an apology from him (which...
Boris Johnson’s latest insult (and the Muslims who unwittingly side with him)
Yesterday, in one of Boris Johnson's new columns for the Telegraph (which you may recall the paper made a big announcement of after he resigned as foreign secretary), he registered his half-hearted opposition to...
Corbyn and Anti-Semitism versus Brexit
The Labour anti-Semitism crisis has not disappeared from the headlines after yet another week. It is noticeable now that the issue has moved on from any specific incident of anti-Semitism by any Labour politician...
Why don’t they call it rape?
Yesterday some of the papers reported that, according to a report by the charity Save the Children, child migrants mostly from sub-Saharan Africa were "being sexually exploited" or in earlier versions "selling sex" in...
Does polygamy cause violence?
A few months ago The Economist put out a video on its Facebook page which tried to make the case that polygamy made a society more violent and prone to civil war. I noticed...
Existential threat? What?
In the latest chapter of the Labour anti-Semitism row, three British Jewish newspapers have published a similar front page and editorial condemning the Labour leadership for refusing their demand to adopt an international definition...
Labour and the IHRA: Listening does not mean submitting
This past week, the Labour Party's National Executive Committee adopted a modified version of a definition of anti-Semitism proposed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, modified in the sense that four 'specific' examples of...
No “vive la France” from me, sorry
Yesterday, France won the World Cup and the day before, England lost the third-place play-off match to Belgium after losing a semi-final to Croatia last Wednesday. I had not been following the matches all...
Racism, not fascism
As the depredations of Donald Trump's immigration forces continue in the USA and his visit to the UK is supported by nakedly mendacious propaganda in the Daily Mail (see right), it is fashionable to...