Hijabi versus liberal Muslima
The other day Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, a popular Muslimah poet and blogger, drew my attention to an advertisement she'd seen in a mosque in Birmingham. It was from a BBC radio producer looking for "an...
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No, the Vegas shooter wasn’t a terrorist. Get over it.
Last week a white man shot dead 59 people who were attending a country music show in Las Vegas from the window of his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay hotel/casino. Already people have...
Labour, anti-Zionism and the past
The controversy over supposed anti-Semitism on the left of the Labour party continues, with the Times publishing an article (paywalled) the other day proclaiming that Jeremy Corbyn had been called upon to throw out...
On Stephen Kinnock and regulation of labour markets
Earlier today I saw a Twitter thread posted by the Labour MP Stephen Kinnock (son of Neil) who is a member of the Brexit select committee in Parliament (starting here, ending here, claiming among...
Review: TomTom Go Professional 6250
If you're a truck driver nowadays, you'll need a HGV-aware sat-nav (GPS unit). There are many stories about truck drivers getting their vehicles stuck down back alleys, teetering on the edges of cliffs or...
280-character Twitter just isn’t Twitter!
So, last night Twitter announced that they are trialling a new 280-letter Twitter format, and that certain people had been selected to try it out (I wasn't one of them). The company's blog post...
May’s speech rewrote history
So, last Friday Theresa May, the British prime minister, gave a speech in Florence (full text here) in which she told us what sort of Brexit she hoped she could achieve, notably rejecting both...
Who’s celebrating Uber’s eviction from London?
Earlier this week the minicab firm Uber, which allows people to hire cabs using an app which calculates the fare to their destination, lost its licence to operate in London and will have to...
Anti-Zionism versus Anti-Semitism
I'm a Muslim and an anti-Zionist. The latter means I support the right of the Palestinian Arabs to their country: all of it. Right now, part of it is a settler state that allows...
Justice for LB: Southern Health pleads guilty
In another chapter of the ongoing battle to bring to book those responsible for the death of Connor Sparrowhawk (known as Laughing Boy or LB) in a bath in an NHS learning disability facility...
Why ‘platooning’ is a bad thing
I'm a truck driver and for the most part I enjoy my job. I get to see different parts of the country every day and much of what I see apart from roads (and...
Persecution of the Rohingya is nothing new
The persecution of the Rohingya in Burma (Myanmar in the main native language) has picked up in the last few weeks, with obvious signs of genocide or as the UN has called it "classic...
Home schooling is vital
Hot on the heels of the Tower Hamlets Muslim foster care hoax, the Times today printed a story (behind firewall) claiming that home schooling was part of "a breeding ground for extremists and future...
Snooping round our door
Earlier today I heard an interview with Sir Martin Narey, a former director-general of the prisons service and later chief executive of the Natoinal Offender Management Service, then CEO of Barnardo's and more recently...
Why did they lie?
Earlier today I saw an article on Medium titled "Why did Andrew Norfolk lie?". Andrew Norfolk is the investigative reporter who wrote the story about the "Christian" girl being fostered with the Muslim foster...
So, it was all a lie
The truth about the young girl fostered with a Muslim family in east London that appeared in the Times on Monday was revealed yesterday in an anonymised court judgement (PDF). The Times' story was...
Shane Ridge case: Shurely shome mishtake
Update: The Home Office has apologised after it established that Shane Ridge was indeed automatically a British citizen. I've filed this under "Immigration" even though the 'immigrant' in question, Shane Ridge from Colne, Lancashire,...
Muslim foster story is naked hate
The Murdoch Times has a front-page story today exposing a 'scandal' in which a young "white, Christian" girl was placed by Tower Hamlets council's social services into the care of a Muslim foster family...
Review: The State
The State is Peter Kosminsky's four-part drama series on a group of young people from western Europe (the two central characters are British) who travel to Syria to join ISIS. It was shown on...
The authority fallacy and the “7-day NHS”
Earlier today, the health minister Jeremy Hunt posted some tweets claiming that Professor Stephen Hawking was wrong in his assessment of the data regarding the "weekend effect" (the notion that people admitted to hospital...