Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Dr Rob, an American primary care doctor (or GP), recently published a “letter to patients with chonic disease”, quite an interesting article in which he informs them that doctors are actually scared of them...
This didn’t quite come too late for yesterday’s entry on niqaab, but that was dragging on too long and I had an appointment this morning that I should have been preparing for while I...
This morning Vanessa Feltz, the host of the BBC London morning phone-in show, had among her topics the question of whether the so-called burqa should be banned (you can listen to it, if you’re...
Last week I heard an awful lot of nonsense in the media about why there were so many people willing to sing the praises of the murderer Raoul Moat, who killed his ex-girlfriend’s partner...
Yesterday Jon Gaunt, the talk show host who used to run the morning show on BBC London, lost an attempt to appeal against a censure by Ofcom, the British broadcast media regulator, against his...
Last week it was reported that the coalition government is to go ahead with plans to change the law to give men accused of rape the right to anonymity up to the point where...
ButYouDontLookSick.com is a website by a woman with lupus (she wrote the Spoon Theory I referred to in a previous post). In her biography, she says that, despite suffering a wide range of symptoms...
For anyone reading this now: DeenPort is being moved to a new server, which is why you may not be able to access it. I have found it works on some mobile networks, but...
I refuse to call them 7/7. The first time I saw that was on the front page of the Times the next day. It seemed quite clear to me that this was their way...
I have two Dell computers (one laptop, one desktop) and they both have Windows Vista and Linux (currently, the latest version of Ubuntu) installed on them. I use Ubuntu the vast majority of the...
A few months ago I read a book called Living Dolls by Natasha Walter, who argued that the "new feminism" she thought was emerging in the 1990s had given way to a culture in...
Lost Voices is published by Invest in ME, a British charity which concentrates on promoting research into the causes of, and a possible cure for, the debilitating neurological disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME); they have...
I was just listening to the BBC London station (94.9FM) and the top story in their news bulletins at the moment seems to be the fact that some Muslim parents are withdrawing their children...
Yesterday a branch of Barclays bank was robbed near London. It happened in Ashford — not the one in Kent where the Eurostar trains stop, but the quiet suburban sprawl north of Staines which...
Scott Rosenberg: WordPress – A Key Link in Blogging’s Evolutionary Chain « WordPress.tv This is a 55-minute video about the history of blogging and how websites developed into blogs, which I found linked off...
Just over a week ago, the team behind the blog FWD/Forward decided to hold a "blogswarm" dedicated to busting myths about Helen Keller and demonstrating that there was more to her than the "water...
Yesterday, the Guardian printed previously unseen pictures of Aung San Suu Kyi, the one-time Burmese democracy leader, at various points both in Asia in her youth and in the UK as a married woman,...
This morning, I heard an interview with the woman who had stood to be mayor of Newham, the east London borough, in the most recent local elections (the same day as the general election)....
The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips | Digested read | Books | The Guardian This is a pretty hilarious parody of Melanie Phillips's latest book, The World Turned Upside Down. The Guardian's...
Last week a number of newspapers reported that scientists were "on track to establish the genetic triggers for autism, paving the way for earlier diagnosis of children who could be at risk of developing...