Image from the really rather dreadful film “The Innocence Of Muslims” (the Centre Left ventures to opine that it is frankly more offensive to good taste than anything else) On Monday, the Telegraph reported an attendance of over ten thousand at a demonstration outside the UK headquarters of Google, over the controversial film “The Innocence of Muslims”.… Continue reading On Islam, free speech, and, er…demonstrating against Google?
Category: Islamism
The new Cold War warms up in Iran
One thing I sometimes forget is that people born before, say, 1980, didn’t really grow up, like I did, being aware of the constant background noise of the Cold War. That is, even for people in their early thirties, it’s as distant a memory as the Second World War was for my parents’ generation. For… Continue reading The new Cold War warms up in Iran
Labour and anti-semitism: a good start, but not enough
I know this happened a couple of weeks back now, but I just wanted to comment on Ed Miliband’s piece in the New Statesman, where he uses his Jewish heritage to try to rebuild bridges with London’s Jewish community after the disaster of Ken Livingstone’s relationship with them over recent years, which started to go… Continue reading Labour and anti-semitism: a good start, but not enough
So remind me again, why should Lord Ahmed be a Labour peer?
Last weekend, the world was shocked to learn that a Labour peer was allegedly calling for a bounty on the heads of Bush, Blair and Obama. “Allegedly”, because there was seemingly no independent confirmation by UK media of the story, which Ahmed vehemently denied. The Labour party, for once, reacted almost immediately in suspending the… Continue reading So remind me again, why should Lord Ahmed be a Labour peer?