Okay, so Brown still faces a rough ride with the Lords, but political expediency and naked Machiavellian practices is the form of common order in the UK, so don’t hold your breath.  Having a 42 day pre-detention (internment) charge won’t look that bad when, in a year or so, they start discussing 90 days. We [...]

The organiser of the ‘Last round on the underground!’ protest apparently regrets launching the Facebook based campaign due to his reputation being tarnished by a few drunken louts that ruined the peaceful ‘protest’. Well lets be honest, it wasn’t really organised to protest Boris J’s sincere, yet naïve and far from encompassing, efforts to curb [...]

Believe it or not for some people in Britain, life without alcohol would almost be like life without oxygen. The beverage has a fundamental role in peoples’ lives for socialising, the opportunity to unwind, celebrating and ultimately happiness. It’s a pillar by which people come together and enhance their lives and perpetuate the culture of [...]

Holland may probably be one of the more unlikely destinations that you would find Muslims travelling to these days; more commonly noted for weekend visits by rabble rousing university students to the Coffeeshops of Amsterdam. To be honest, some might describe my trip as odd. If I didn’t go to get stoned or at least savour the brazenly open red light districts, what did I do?

Phone tapping, spying, kidnappings, interrogation, torture. Realities that my old history teacher completely dismissed. She was horrified that Muslim students should fabricate elaborate conspiracy theories, suspect governments of such crimes and was concerned that they failed to show the smallest amount of patriotism to “˜this great country.’ I can only hope she [...]

The Iraqis went to the polls to elect their new government yesterday and this has been hailed as a great success by the West. The elections, according to international observers, apparently met “global standards” and voters were not put off by the threat of violence.
Just last week a poll was released indicating that Iraqis had [...]