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…]
Islam
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…]
Authoritarianism
An Afternoon with Rev Peter Mullen
On 20 July, I caught the train down to Eastbourne to hear Rev Peter Mullen address the Freedom Association (TFA). If one or both names doesn’t mean much to you, a few words of introduction [more…]
Engineering
Medicine – Part Five
Something that many people do not realise is that cultures, technology, science and learning can go backwards as well as forwards. Just as you can have progression, you can also have regression. Although the way [more…]
Arts
A New Dark Age
Godfrey Bloom recently made an appearance on Infowars with Alex Jones where he stated we are heading into a new Dark Age. I don’t think he’s far off the mark at all. We’ve already had [more…]
Authoritarianism
Letter from Tommy
Tommy has had a lot of time to reflect on recent events and the massive rally organised by his friends on the 9th. Before being moved from Hull prison he wrote a letter to thank [more…]