Fascism
Letter From Tommy August 2019
Transcribed from Danny Tommo’s twitter feed, 2nd August. Well, here we are, it’s 5:30 PM, I wanted to wait until I had some updates before I put pen to paper. I’m receiving your emails [more…]
Islam
Arts
Guilty by Citation
“All the routines of daily life are affected. You choose between being spat on in public places or staying at home. You are completely exposed. It suddenly becomes quiet all around you. Friends you have [more…]
Arts
Authoritarianism
From Draft to Bookshop – A Journey
Almost two years ago this weekend my wife and I, rather nervously, drove into a small Devon village on our way to visit a family that I had only met through Going Postal but who [more…]
Arts
“Push-Back” isn’t Racism
Rule Britannia I had an urge to write something about “racism” and I want to reframe it to what it really is, “push-back”. “Push-back”, in my context, is where you’ve had enough of a behaviour [more…]
Arts
Freedom of Expression
Yesterday morning, on the way back from walking the dogs, my wife phoned me to pick up a copy of the Sunday Times. The edition we get here in France is a truncated version of [more…]
Arts
Halal and the European Union
For five years (2004-9) I sat on the European Parliamentary Consumer Affairs committee, a woeful experience indeed but with occasional flashes of unintended humour. One forlorn afternoon in Brussels we sat deliberating on European bottle [more…]
Arts
Halal, My Darlings!
But is it Kosher? I wrote a piece for Going Postal that compared the integration and assimilation of Muslims to that of The Jews. It was prefaced by an Imam who said that the treatment [more…]
Arts
Postcard From Rhas Al Khaima
A fellow Postalier, whose name escapes me (apologies), mentioned a couple of days ago that he was going to be attending a Muslim (Islamic) wedding. During a bit of banter he (or she) mentioned that [more…]