{"id":1641,"date":"2008-08-29T21:58:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/08\/29\/indigo_jo_on_the_radio"},"modified":"2025-10-09T18:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:23:29","slug":"indigo_jo_on_the_radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/08\/29\/indigo_jo_on_the_radio","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Jo on the radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got through to speak to Anne Diamond (sitting in for Vanessa Feltz who&#39;s off having her gall bladder removed) today!  The issue was a story picked out of the Daily Express (or Daily Spew as it&#39;s known in these parts) about Tower Hamlets council (Tower Hamlets is an area of east London with a heavy Muslim population) asking its councillors not to eat publically from next week onwards because a lot of their colleagues will be fasting (more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamophobia-watch.com\/islamophobia-watch\/2008\/8\/29\/muslim-council-chiefs-ban-tea-and-sandwiches-during-ramadan.html\">Islamophobia Watch<\/a>).  I think that this, in principle, is no big deal and quite a reasonable request, but obviously the Daily Spew thinks otherwise (how would they sell papers otherwise?).  I said pretty much what I&#39;ve said here, that the Spew has a history of stirring up hostility against Muslims with headlines like this one, and that as a driver I could not eat and drink while on the road or I could be fined for not driving with due care and attention.  You can hear it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/aod\/networks\/london\/aod.shtml?london\/vanessa_feltz_fri\">here<\/a> (about an hour and five minutes in; you need Real Player) until next Thursday; I intend to post a transcript of the conversation over the weekend <em>insha Allah<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got through to speak to Anne Diamond (sitting in for Vanessa Feltz who&#39;s off having her gall bladder removed) today! The issue was a story picked out of the Daily Express (or Daily&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[676],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-qt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41779,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/41779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}