Who are you sticking it to?
Earlier today I saw a comment on Astrid van Woerkom’s blog in response to a criticism of the “communication shutdown” wheeze from various autism chairites. There has been much criticism of the scheme here...
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The NHS versus American insurance-based healthcare
Six-month delay by NHS cost woman a cancer lifeline | Mail Online This got flagged up on Facebook today, and the person who posted it also linked an article about boys getting inappropriately medicated...
Labour and free speech
The Labour Party in the UK has rules that state that any member who stands in an election against the labour candidate, or who openly supports a candidate opposing a Labour candidate, is automatically...
Why didn’t they use the fire doors?
The other day, just after I finished my post on the “communication shutdown” supposedly in aid of autism, the fire alarm went off in the Bentalls centre in Kingston where I had written it...
Odone report on assisted suicide
New Report: Assisted Suicide – how the chattering classes have got it wrong The Centre for Policy Studies (which is, as I understand it, a traditionally Tory-aligned think tank) has published a report by...
Communication shutdown for autism a bad idea
I saw this "Communication Shutdown" event through a critical article highlighted on FWD/Forward — a scheme to raise awareness of autism by "shutting down" social networks for a day (1st November): WHAT IS COMMUNICATION...
“Too stupid” family reunited in Ireland
Joyfully kissing her beautiful baby boy – the girl branded too stupid to be a wife or mother | Mail Online I've been following this story on and off since I first heard of...
Another victim of the “foreign criminals” media scandal
It was reported in the Guardian today that a story released by the Home Office and G4S (formerly Group 4 Security, a contractor which handles deportations of failed immigrants to the UK) about how...
WordPress v Drupal
The other day I saw a post on my WordPress admin screen entitled WordPress and Drupal: Convergence? which presented a slideshow of why WordPress was supposedly going to overtake Drupal. I use WordPress for...
Niqab experiments: don’t do it!
Someone asked on DeenPort earlier today for advice to give to a female Christian friend who wants to do an experiment by wearing niqaab, the face-covering worn by some Muslim women, for a day....
What makes a cult?
Recently there has been some discussion on DeenPort on what constitutes a cult, and when a religion becomes a cult. Someone offered the definition that, among Muslims, when one is in a particular group...
Cameron won’t speak to me, Murray whines
Blackballed by Cameron | The Spectator Some years ago Douglas Murray gave a speech in the Netherlands in which he called for sweeping restrictions on Muslims, among them an end to immigration from Muslim...
When is an apology meaningful?
Earlier today I took part in a Facebook discussion about "apologies", in the context of the British government's decision to prohibit blood donations from people who had, or ever had, M.E., in which someone...
Who’s radicalising who?
Today it was revealed that a report commissioned by University College London, the college where Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to bomb a plane from Amsterdam to the USA last December, concluded that he...
The problem of convert disillusionment
Note: I wrote most of this last week, before the sister who posts here as Africana revealed her suspicions about “sock-puppets” (people pretending to be other people as well as themselves) at the ex-Muslim...
Park51 turning into Abbey Mills re-run
I haven’t commented on the Park51 affair yet — the 13-storey mosque and community centre that some group wants to put up in Lower Manhattan — mainly because other Muslims (and others) have said...
On Virginia Ironside, suffering and pillows
This morning, I witnessed an extraordinary exchange on the BBC morning discussion programme, Sunday Morning Live (in the UK, you can watch it on iPlayer here), a somewhat cheaply produced affair in which various...
Rape is not funny. Yes, even when it’s George Michael. (updated)
A couple of hours ago I went downstairs to chat to my sis who is visiting with her little girl, and one of the new generation of comedy shows, Mock the Week, was on....
Get your halal veal at Wembley Stadium
Britain goes halal (…but nobody tells public) | Mail Online The front page of today’s Mail on Sunday was dominated by the above story: the revelation that a number of entertainment venues, such as...
Sweden: exposing Sharia and rape myths
Swedish elections: The impact of immigration | World news | The Guardian This is an article about the rise of the “Sweden Democrats”, a far-right party which has been increasing its share of the...