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Burqa ban wrong
What is a burqa? The name varies according to country, custom, and time: burqa, niqab, veil, chadari, abaya: effectively it is a one-person mobile tent with either an opening for the eyes or a lighter...
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Nelson Mandela is dead
Born in 1918 in Mvezo, grew up in Qunu, small villages on the East Cape of South Africa. Named Rolihlahla Mandela, baptised Nelson by a Methodist teacher: went to Fort Hare University (from which he...
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Question Time Johannesburg
This week, for the very first time in its 34-year history, BBC Question Time is going to be televised outside the UK, in Johannesburg. [Correction: not only not the first time it's been televised...
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Neither cure nor endure
Back when we first evolved into naked apes, skin tone for human beings was normally high in melanin. Low-melanin skin (“white”) is a genetic freak that may have provided some advantage for living in...
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Creeping fascism
The population of the UK is about 63 million, and fewer than 5% of the population are Muslim. (In Scotland, 1.4%.) Muslims are slightly more likely to express pride in being British than non-Muslims;...
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The racism of the respectable
Please sign this petition, on the Downing Street site from Leyla Hussein, Daughters of Eve, and Efua Dorkenoo OBE, Equality Now: Over 66,000 women in the UK have already undergone female genital...
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Immigrants are not the problem
Cheap-work conservatives don’t like human rights: for the principle of human rights, universal and indivisible, stands against the cheap-work conservative need to exploit, use, and abuse everyone less...
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Good Fortune
John Fortune died on 31st December. I probably first saw him as Major Saunders in Yes Minister in 1982: he and his partner John Bird doing their unscripted – but terribly well-researched – double-talk...
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UKIP: gamechanger?
Last night the political reporter for the Nottingham Post tweeted: So Labour win in Clifton North by election, and Lib Dems beaten by Bus Pass Elvis party… pic.twitter.com/xpoS9WvsSV — Alexander...
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Hieroglyph in White
This is what Egyptians looked like three thousand years ago: This is what Egyptians look like today: This is what Egyptians look like in Hieroglyph, Fox’s action-adventure series set in Egypt, dynasty...
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When Prime Ministers Make Promises
On 14th April 2011, David Cameron made a promise: So, taking all this into account, I believe controlling immigration and bringing it down is of vital importance to the future of our country. That’s...
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What is an extremist?
To David Cameron and his crew of cheap-work conservatives, an extremist is a Muslim. David Cameron promised us a crack-down on extremism as early as 13th May: “For too long, we have been a passively...
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Smearing by Mensch, 1
Last Friday night, Louise Mensch – former Tory MP, former novelist, currently a columnist for Rupert Murdoch (she took the trouble to praise Murdoch highly when she was an MP and the Murdochs were...
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A week makes
EU Referendum Results Map A week ago, the exit polls made it look like the UK electorate had instigated the worst political crisis in the UK outside wartime. By Friday, the counted votes had removed...
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Tory lies, anti-Semitism, the Labour Party, Israel, and Palestine
There are two general things happening through this election. One of them is that the Conservatives keep getting caught doing very public, very stupidly bad, disinformation actions. During the BBC...
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Who’s not happy Trump is gone?
This was first posted on Facebook on 21st January 2021, with support from my Ko-Fi network. In conversation with a friend on the phone the other night, I noted that even though 70 million Americans...
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The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
This was first posted on Facebook on 16th March 2021, with support from my Ko-Fi network. I listened to the Second Reading debate on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill on Monday evening and...
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