“Never such depravity”
Hind Rajab, the six-year-old girl murdered by the Israelis who also murdered the two paramedics sent to her rescue. (Source: Ehab Hamada, Instagram) Last week I listened to the BBC’s File on 4...
View ArticleBrianna Ghey and stable-door logic
Brianna Ghey. (Image source: TikTok.) A few years ago I wrote an article on what I called “stable-door logic”: the tendency, after a disaster or atrocity, to look for ways to make sure that said...
View ArticleRochdale and Rishi Sunak’s hunt for ‘extremists’
Galloway: “the best cars are to be found here in Rochdale”. (Source: George Galloway, X.) Last week a by-election in Rochdale saw the former Labour MP and more recently former leader of the Respect...
View ArticleSeething with anger
A demonstration in London against the Gaza genocide in November 2023. (Taken by me.) Since Brexit, there has been a particular theory about why people voted the way they did: that it wasn’t about...
View ArticleIt’s Islamophobia, thank you
Demonstrators in London, Nov 2023 Over the past week, some of the same politicians and think-tankers who couldn’t hide their resentment at George Galloway winning a by-election and were accusing...
View ArticleEarl Spencer and early boarding
Last Sunday the Mail printed extracts from a new book by Earl (Charles) Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, on his time at a private boarding school in England called Maidwell School (the...
View ArticleWomen need the mosque
The Namazgah mosque in Tirana, Albania The issue of women’s access to the mosque and the inadequate space for women in many mosques in the UK has been a thorny issue in the community for decades, way...
View ArticleDesperate Tories, shameless lies
Sadiq Khan Today the Tories published on their Twitter/X account a video claiming that Sadiq Khan’s London was the model for how the country would be governed if Labour were to win the forthcoming...
View ArticleSo much for “war on the NIMBYs”
The proposed new block of flats in Riddlesdown Road, Purley (source: Polaris Passivhaus) Last week Chris Philp, the Tory MP for Croydon South, a wealthy district on the southern edge of London where...
View ArticleBrighton Hill: £20million well spent (at least partly)
The Brighton Hill Roundabout. (Source: Auto Shenanigans) Today I saw a video by a couple of guys who make YouTube videos about roads, accusing Hampshire county council in south-eastern England of...
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