Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Islamophobia Watch – Documenting anti Muslim bigotry – Lynton Crosby told Boris Johnson not to waste his time chasing votes from ‘f***ing Muslims’ Lynton Crosby is the Australian electioneer who ran the campaign that saw...
Yet again, Casualty gets the medical facts wrong in one of their plotlines. This time the condition involved was Morquio syndrome (pronounced Morkio), a genetic disorder which results in dwarfism, spinal defects and visual...
Last Friday I wrote here about Simon Wessely, the psychiatric professor at King’s College Hospital in London who is notorious for promoting psychological theories about certain chronic illnesses, won an award for “courage” presented...
When I first got into blogging in 2004, one of the most prominent voices in the blogosphere (she was, and is, also a newspaper columnist) was Melanie Phillips, who by that time wrote for...
On Wednesday, Simon Wessely, notorious for promoting psychological theories about ME, was jointly awarded a new prize for courage in “standing up for science” by Sense About Science. Nature published the statement by the...
Nadine Dorries, the conservative (with a small ‘c’) Tory MP for Mid-Bedfordshire, has been suspended from her party (and likely faces de-selection in the run-up to the next general election) following her travel to...
Yesterday I took the plunge and installed Windows 8 on my laptop. I had hesitated to do this, because of various reports such as that the Desktop (that is, the running of the normal...
The past week or so I've been following a series of posts by the blogger "Anna Raccoon", who I earlier came across in her articles about the Court of Protection and her championing of...
I just attended a talk by Dr Leon Moosavi, who some readers may know from Facebook, on the experience of converts from different backgrounds after they enter Islam. He mentioned the concept of “white...
Shocking moment mother Amanda Lowe, 26, repeatedly stamps on man's head in racist attack | Mail Online A woman who took part with three men in a violent group attack on an Asian man,...
Government orders building standards review | Politics | The Guardian The government has ordered a review of building standards regulations, with a view to reducing the number of regulations, ostensibly to facilitate a revival...
Over the years that the Internet has existed as a mass medium (which is more or less my adult life — I first got online at university in 1995, before Google and just as...
This post is cross-posted to Same Difference, and you can comment there or here. Captchas are a method websites use to tell whether a visitor is a person or a computer. This is typically...
I spent the past two days upgrading my Android phone, a Samsung Galaxy S (model i9000) to the new version of Android. There have actually been several new versions since the last one Samsung...
We condemn Israel. So why the silence on Syria? | Jonathan Freedland | Comment is free | The Guardian This article appeared in the opinion section of yesterday’s Guardian and criticises the public and the...
How many Muslim women martyrs do we need before Muslim leaders speak out? – Telegraph Blogs Cristina Odone is asking why Muslims didn’t loudly condemn the shooting of Malala Yousufzaid in Swat, Pakistan, as...
On Tuesday the Home Secretary, Theresa May, announced that the computer hacker Gary McKinnon would not be extradited to the USA to face charges of hacking into NASA’s and the Pentagon’s computers before and...
This post is also published at Same Difference, and you can comment there or here. Back in August, a blog was set up titled “Dave on Wheels”, purportedly by a young disabled man called...
Mehdi Hasan, a former editor at the New Statesman who has since moved to the Huffington Post, had a largely very well-reasoned article published on the latter website about how being opposed to abortion...
Today the Daily Telegraph reported that the government were considering introducing a system of "smart cards" for benefit payments, which recipients will only be able to use to spend on "essentials" such as "food,...