Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Why are so many left-wing progressives silent about Islam’s totalitarian tendencies? by Julie Bindel (free registration required) This article is on Unherd, a right-leaning opinion site edited by Tim Montgomerie (founder of ConservativeHome), and...
Some friends of mine have been sharing a Labour election video on Facebook. The 15-second video claims that the next Labour government will make bus travel free for under-25s in England before telling people,...
The other day I watched a repeat of an episode of the BBC series DIY SOS: The Big Build. It's where the BBC get some architects, designers and local builders and other workers and...
Yesterday I came across a blog post by Nora Mulready, one of the most sanctimonious anti-Corbyn agitators among the centre-Left, welcoming the announcement of a "new party" in last Sunday's Observer — which, as...
According to a report in today's Observer (effectively the Guardian on Sunday), a group of "entrepreneurs, philanthropists and donors" have been developing plans for a new centrist party for about a year. The foundation,...
The other day I watched a repeat of an episode of the BBC series DIY SOS: The Big Build. It's where the BBC get some architects, designers and local builders and other workers and...
Earlier today I saw a tweet by Shaun King, an American race activist, about Egyptian media coverage and popular interest in American police shootings and resulting protests: I am in Egypt. The murder of...
Last Friday Nick Cohen posted a series of tweets about what he described as the tendency of Labour Remainers to "snuggle down in the soft warm bed of conspiracy theory" in explaining why the...
Today the transport secretary, Chris Grayling, called for an investigation into what he called "exploitative" fuel prices at motorway service stations, which are typically 20p per litre above prices elsewhere (and the gap between...
The controversy that started last week when someone dug up a five-year-old Facebook comment by Jeremy Corbyn on a picture of an anti-Semitic mural by an obscure London artist has not gone away. What...
Today, the Hampshire based NHS trust Southern Health was fined nearly £2,000,000 for health and safety breaches in regard to the preventable deaths of two patients: Connor Sparrowhawk, the "Laughing Boy" of the Justice...
This week someone dug up a Facebook post from October 2012 by a muralist called "Mear One" which shows a mural of a bunch of bearded figures (which he explains as representing Jewish bankers)...
Since the scandal broke about Facebook data being leaked to Cambridge Analytica, a New York-based political consultancy which served the Trump and Brexit campaigns and used the data to channel propaganda to susceptible voters,...
Footage has emerged of a group of trans activists, all women, one of them perhaps trans, protesting at a Bectu union picket line outside a cinema in Brixton (where there is a long-running pay...
Last week the British prime minister, Theresa May, took most of the action she had promised to do after the Russian government did not answer for the attempted murder of a former spy and...
Last week a half-hour feature by Nick Cohen of the Observer on the supposed "silence of the liberals" on the 'plight' of liberal Muslims in the UK who are, he alleges, facing death threats...
The other day on Twitter someone retweeted a Qadiani (a member of the so-called Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam) repeating a much-rehearsed claim: that according to a newspaper report at the time, 72 sects of...
Last August there was a three-vehicle crash on the M1 outside Milton Keynes in which eight people were killed, all of them in a minibus which was crushed when a moving truck from behind...
With every week that passes, new disadvantages to this country from Brexit become clear: yesterday it was revealed that Theresa May had confirmed that the UK would not be part of the EU's Digital...
As a Muslim I have much experience of being lectured about 'unity' by certain people and most of it has come from people primarily responsible for causing the division. For example, almost every Ramadan...