Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Today the Guardian published an interview with Britain's "most senior Muslim police officer", Scotland Yard commander Mak Chishty, head of community engagement for the Metropolitan police, in which he claimed that earlier and more...
Israel has many injustices. But it is not an apartheid state | Benjamin Pogrund | Comment is free | The Guardian This bit of self-serving liberal Zionist guff was in yesterday's Guardian — actually,...
So, in today's Telegraph there's an interview with Prince Harry (right), who is set to leave the Army next month after ten years of service, in which he calls for the return of National...
As anyone who reads the news will know, last Thursday there was a general election here and on Friday morning we learned that the Tories had gained an absolute majority of the seats, which...
Today the Sun put that picture of Ed Miliband trying to eat a bacon butty and getting it all down his shirt, suggesting that if he can't even eat without making a mess, he'll...
Earlier today I left a message on the local Lib Dem constituency office’s answerphone, as our MP, who is defending his seat, is the Lib Dem Energy secretary Edward Davey. I asked him what...
This post is part of Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015. Phill Wills, the father of Josh Wills, an autistic boy from Cornwall who has been in a hospital unit in Birmingham since 2012 and...
As I think I've said here in the past, I live in a Lib Dem constituency — specifically, Ed Davey's constituency, Kingston and Surbiton, a constituency where the only main challenger is a Tory...
Last week the former Prime Minister, John Major (right), popped up to have a go at the Scottish National Party, which opinion polls suggest is likely to get a majority of the seats in...
Yesterday the Sun published an article by Katie Hopkins, former Apprentice contestant and professional loudmouth and bigot, suggesting that we "use gunships" to tackle the problem of migrants coming across the Mediterranean in unsafe...
Patriarchy is killing our planet – women alone can save her – The Ecologist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, an investigative journalist best known for work on Muslim civil rights and terrorism, wrote the above article...
In today's Daily Mail there is a report that Maajid Nawaz, the founder of the so-called counter-extremist Muslim organisation Quilliam and Liberal Democrat candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn in the forthcoming election, was filmed...
Tonight at midnight, the speed limits for trucks on roads in England and Wales go up by 10mph: the maximum speed on single-carriageway roads to 50mph, and on dual carriageways to 60mph (in practice,...
Last night there was a big debate featuring the leaders of the seven major political parties in next month's elections (Labour, Tories, Lib Dems, Greens, UKIP, Plaid Cymru and the SNP). I was driving,...
Last week a GermanWings airliner was crashed into a moutainside in south-western France, killing everyone on board. The evidence seems to suggest that the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, crashed it deliberately, and investigations have turned...
Last Saturday, the Guardian published a long-winded screed by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (or Alibi-Brain as we call her) claiming that "the veil" as worn by Muslim women constitutes a "rejection of progressive values". It's basically...
Last Thursday Channel 4 broadcast a 65-minute-long discourse by Trevor Phillips, former head of the Commission for Racial Equality and then (after its amalgamation with all the other equality bodies) the Equality and Human...
'Power users' need to shut up (from OSNews) This article links to one at iMore, in which someone who calls himself a 'power user' but says he hates the term, tells 'spec monkeys' to...
I don't know what sort of dignity these people have, because a lot of them are just thugs who got where they are by killing people and kicking people's heads in. It's more apt...
A Twitter friend just flagged up this story from a Canadian newspaper. It's about a Muslim family who are Canadian citizens being barred from boarding a flight to Florida so they could go to...