The nightmare of upgrading Windows Vista
For years until last December, I avoided installing any version of Windows on my personal computers; I had a Mac, which I used for things like word processing, and a Linux-based PC which I...
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A state funeral for Thatcher?
It was reported today that the government had decided to honour Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister of the UK from 1979 to 1990, with a state funeral when she dies (she is 82 and...
Why be a citizen?
A Moroccan Muslim woman has been refused citizenship in France for wearing the so-called burka and supposedly living in "total submission to her male relatives". Her initial refusal was in 2005, but she has...
No dogging in Dubai
Last week, a woman and her husband were arrested for having sex on a beach in Dubai; this news made it to the front pages of at least one major British newspaper. The woman...
Rape campaigners oppose anonymous testimony
Further to Tuesday's post about the threat posed by anonymous court testimony, there is a letter in today's paper, in reply to the article I blogged, from two rape campaigners (Cristel Amiss of the...
Kavanagh ducks the questions
Technorati Tags: trevor kavanagh, peter oborne I know I'm a bit late on this, but a couple of the left-wing bloggers have responded to Trevor Kavanagh's idiotic response to the Dispatches documentary broadcast on...
Anonymous testimony: “a perjurer’s charter”
Geoffrey Robertson: There can be no fair trials with this perjurer's charter (from the Guardian today) Geoffrey Robertson QC (a senior British lawyer, with an interest in human rights and anti-censorship issues) on the...
Islamophobia: the acceptable prejudice
Peter Oborne, a contributor (or former contributor?) to the Spectator, has been writing at length recently on Islamophobia, which he says can be expressed acceptably nowadays in ways which would make a pariah of...
Disappointed with “Fallout” drama
Last Thursday, Channel 4 broadcast Fallout, a feature-length drama about a stabbing in London and its aftermath. Its star is Lennie James, who wrote an article for the Observer a couple of weeks ago...
Jill Saward: wrong then, wrong now
Among the people who have entered the forthcoming Haltemprice and Howden by-election, triggered by the resignation of David Davis to fight on a civil liberties platform is Jill Saward (campaign site here), who is...
One strike and you’re out: the case of Majid Ahmed
This morning, one of the topics on the Vanessa Feltz show was a young man named Majid Ahmed from Bradford, who had been offered a place at Imperial College, London, to study medicine. Three...
Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion exposed
Rolled-up Trousers: Centre for Social Cohesion Osama Saeed, who recently helped to establish the Scottish-Islamic Foundation, replies to accusations from the likes of the "Centre for Social Cohesion" that they are some sort of...
The Spectator prints my letter, with more twaddle from Roddle
The Spectator (with my letter!) The Spectator (a right-of-centre British political magazine, formerly edited by Boris Johnson) has printed a letter from me in the current edition, written in reply to Rod Liddle who...
Examining Hassan Butt
From Comment is Free, Inayat Bunglawala examines the case of Hassan Butt, the self-proclaimed ex-jihadist who tells Islam-bashers what they want to hear. He notes that, on his return from Pakistan, Butt attempted to...
Brief London driving moans
Why is it that the BBC London traffic news people cannot find any better ways of identifying the location of delays on the roads than a reference to a junction nobody who does not...
Return to openSUSE
Last week, I replaced the Linux distribution on my laptop’s hard drive; I had been using Fedora 9, and I replaced it with openSUSE version 11. SUSE was the first Linux distro I tried...
Confusion over handshake issue at Irish awards
On Sunday, the Sunday Times reported that a Somali Muslim man lost an award he had been due to receive at a ceremony last Thursday at the Africa Centre in Dublin, Ireland, because he...
Round-up: cheap labour for cheap clothes, Hassidic Jews in London
OK, so people are up in arms over some of Primark’s suppliers being found to use child labour in India. While I suppose Primark cancelling its orders from them shows that they care about...
Interview with ‘Shaikh’ Faisal
BBC NEWS | UK | Hate preacher ‘knew 7/7 bomber’ An interesting headline for an interview with “Shaikh” Abdullah Faisal, the extremist Wahhabi preacher who was jailed in the UK in 2003 for incitement...
Akinola barred from Jordan
Various newspapers, including today’s Guardian, have reported that Peter Akinola, an Anglican bishop in Nigeria who is a well-known “conservative” figure in the worldwide Anglican church, has been denied access (from Israel) to Jordan,...