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One man, no vote: British Muslims’ apathy
Below is a short extract of a letter written in 2002 by Tariq Modood, Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, a response to an academic paper written by Alison Shaw titled ‘Why might young British Muslims support the Taliban?‘. Both Shaw’s paper and Modood’s response appear in the Royal Anthropological […]
I spy with my many eyes…
April 15, 2013
Two years ago Goldsmiths’ student union was visited by two officials from the British government’s Prevent Strategy. One official was from the local council; the other from a local police station. EastLondonLines reported ‘[Officials] handed over a document with advice on how to spot a potentially vulnerable student. They were told to look out for […]
Posted in: Current Affairs
Liverpool: Around the World in 80 Words!
March 24, 2013
Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I used to write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I looked at a different part of the world and wrote 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post, however, it is Raja Farah […]
Posted in: Travel
Two wrongs don’t make a right: UKIP, the Tories and the future for British politics
March 22, 2013
Originally written by @HotterThanCurry with some input from me. Despite allegations of sleaze and impropriety, the Liberal Democrats won the Eastleigh by-election last month but with a reduced majority. UKIP upset the odds and came in a strong second and shifting the limelight firmly onto the awkward Conservatives who were beaten into an embarrassing third […]
Posted in: Current Affairs, Politics
Madrid: Around the World in 80 Words!
February 20, 2013
Around the World in 80 Words! is a feature I write for Dartford Living, a magazine based in Kent, UK. I look at a different part of the world and write 80 words (derived from the novel Around the World in Eighty Days) about it. In this post I write about Madrid: Spain’s capital dates […]
Posted in: Travel
Recharted Territory: Foreign Intervention in Mali
February 16, 2013
Mali is the latest stop on the western-led humanitarian intervention tour after notable stops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya amongst others. A liberal view will declare that democracy was exported to those countries benevolently by western states intervening, but a realist view, the view which governs the USA’s foreign policy (think ‘Neocons’), would suggest something […]
Posted in: Current Affairs
UEFA rewards apartheid state with football tournament
February 16, 2013
More than twenty years after the spectre of apartheid was finally ended in South Africa, the very same system of state-sanctioned discrimination is alive and well in Israel today. The ‘Apartheid State’ discriminates against Palestinians in every walk of life, including sport. The world of sport cannot be divorced from other aspects of life and […]
Posted in: Current Affairs, Sport
Who is abdelxyz?
April 17, 2013
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