The Spectator prints my letter, with more twaddle from Roddle
The Spectator (with my letter!) The Spectator (a right-of-centre British political magazine, formerly edited by Boris Johnson) has printed a letter from me in the current edition, written in reply to...
View ArticleWhy the US election is everyone’s business
Jonathan Freedland: McCain or Obama? The US election result will have a huge impact on us | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Or, to use the actual headline, “This pansy-ass limey Brit won’t butt out —...
View ArticleThe importance of religious over ethnic solidarity
Last week, the New Statesman printed a letter from Randhir Singh Bains of Essex, whose letters commonly appear in the centre-left press in the UK, about the history of inter-Asian solidarity in the UK:...
View ArticleWomen respond to Melville
Following my rant about Kate Melville’s letter in last Saturday’s Guardian, two women (one Muslim, one probably not) respond in today’s paper: Kate Melville weeps for the hijab- and niqab-wearing...
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An Ahmadiyyah geography lesson
This letter appeared in yesterday’s Daily Mail in response to the article by David Goodhart about the Ahmadiyyah centre in Morden last Monday (see earlier article). The letter starts off by stating...
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Letter to the Guardian on Niqaab
I wrote this letter last Thursday after seeing a series of very hostile letters in the Guardian following Kira Cochrane’s article in which she interviewed women who wear the niqaab (who had been...
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Muslim women don’t owe solidarity to bigots
This morning I was listening to Vanessa Feltz’s phone-in show in London which is every weekday from 9am to noon. I tuned in just before 10am at which point I was heading out on the M3 towards Andover,...
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“My parents say I’m ugly…”
Annalisa Barbieri There is a letter in the weekend section of today’s Guardian from a teenage girl to an advice columnist called Annalisa Barbieri, who answers a question each week about difficulties...
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Who is the philistine here?
The former Pimlico comprehensive school during demolition There’s a letter in today’s Guardian in response to a debate about the virtues of Pimlico comprehensive school, a concrete-and-glass building...
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Dump him!
Dump him. https://t.co/3UW28e4Lbv— Karen Ingala Smith (@K_IngalaSmith) February 25, 2019 Pamela Stephenson Connolly This is about a letter to Pamela Stephenson Connolly, the Guardian’s agony aunt for...
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