Online terrorism and stupidity
This morning they were talking on Today about the woman who called herself the “Lyrical Terrorist”, who wrote ghoulish poems about slicing people’s heads off and was convicted of possessing material “likely to be...
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Today programme embarrassment
Technorati Tags: gillian gibbons Last Thursday morning, Ed Husain and Massoud Shadjareh (of the Islamic Human Rights Commission) appeared on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 – you can download it until next...
Message in a gunboat (Sending in the SAS)
Technorati Tags: gillian gibbons In the further discussion of the Gillian Gibbons case on the radio this morning, the question of whether the teacher should be militarily rescued was discussed. Vanessa Feltz said she...
London’s where we do stuff, innit?
This week it’s appeared that serious consideration has been given to building a third runway, and a sixth terminal, at Heathrow Airport. The project will require the destruction of an entire suburban village, blight...
Insult, what insult?
Technorati Tags: gillian gibbons Just when the latest round of knock-ons from the Undercover Mosque hatchet job were starting to fade away, the story of the British teacher jailed in Sudan for a supposed...
Zimbabwe and racism
Yesterday I passed by the Zimbabwean embassy in the Strand, London, where there was a small group of protestors, black and white, who asked me to sign their petition, which I did. I struck...
Ofcom supports “Undercover Mosque”
Last Monday, the British media regulator Ofcom published a ruling that the Channel 4 documentary Undercover Mosque was not in breach of its code of conduct (PDF here; it’s on page 9). The complaints,...
So we lost
If anyone's not heard yet, the England team lost a football match against Croatia last week, which means England won't be in the Euro 2008 tournament next year. Boo hoo. The manager (Steve McClaren)...
Woman killed for rejecting proposal on chat show
Woman killed after rejecting TV marriage proposal – Guardian Unlimited This is a story about a woman who was murdered in Spain after rejecting a marriage proposal from her violent partner, delivered on a...
A “big gun” fires blanks for Amis
Today, the Guardian printed a defence of Martin Amis, in response to Ronan Bennett’s deconstruction of Amis’s anti-Muslim remarks in his interview with Ginny Dougary. Entitled Martin Amis is no racist, the article took up the bottom half of two pages, with the top half empty apart from the headline. It seemed that a big gun had to be brought in to defend Amis – someone of Amis’s own supposed stature – but the arguments were astoundingly flabby.
What came before “PC” policing?
This morning’s potboiler issue on the Vanessa Feltz show was that the Metropolitan Police had scrapped its mascot, a 9-foot-high figure of a Police Community Support Officer (the recently introduced police-lite) called Steve, because...
Martin Amis’s “adumbrations” deconstructed
Ronan Bennett on Martin Amis's threatening remarks about Muslims | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited Ronan Bennett takes apart the attacks made by Martin Amis on the Muslim community, including that in the Ginny...
NHS hymen repairs
The other day, Vanessa Feltz brought up the issue of the NHS offering hymen repairs to women of certain ethnic origins who need to appear to be virgins on their wedding night. Apparently, according...
Underwhelming St Pancras
This afternoon I had the opportunity to take a look at the new, redeveloped St Pancras station, which is now used for the Eurostar trains to Paris and Brussels (and a few other places,...
Panic stations at St Pancras
Comment is free: Panic stations Christian Wolmar (British railways commentator) on the ridiculous security arrangements at the new St Pancras railway station in London, the terminal for trains to Paris: St Pancras, which reopened...
Another girl victimised over religious dress
BBC NEWS: ‘Bangle’ pupil is excluded again This is a report about a Sikh girl, aged 14, who has been excluded from school in south Wales for insisting on wearing the kara, or bangle,...
NeO to Guiliani
muslimmatters.org » “NeO” to Giuliani — United Against a Presidential Nightmare At the request of Amad, and at the risk of getting a flood of “how dare this Limey stick his nose into American...
Shocking
BBC NEWS: Former head sentenced for cruelty This loathsome creature, who ran a dumping ground, I mean special school, for children with special needs in Norfolk – not a million miles from the place...
Sunday Spew on Abdul Bari: see the irony?
Islamophobia Watch – Home – Muslim brands Britain 'Nazi' – according to the Express Islamophobia Watch prints an extract from today's sanctimonious carping from the Sunday Express in reaction to the comments by the...
The Kesgrave Hall sex scandal
Every so often I do a Google search for the name of my old school, Kesgrave Hall. (Even before Google came online, I used to search for it using other search engines like Infoseek...