The wrong time to end the mask mandate
The Sun’s front page, 6th July 2021 Yesterday, the government announced that most if not all the current rules and restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of Coronavirus, including the requirement...
View ArticleRelaxing drivers’ hours is a bad idea
Last week the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, announced that the government were going to be temporarily relaxing the maximum daily driving hours for truck drivers in the UK by an hour. Normally...
View ArticleOn imposing medical treatment without consent
A girl receiving an oral polio vaccine in Egypt (source) The other day the Muslim scholar and blogger Musa Furber published a brief article on his blog answering claims from some Muslims that Muslim...
View ArticleWhat is and what isn’t eugenics?
A nurse receives a Covid-19 vaccination As more and more of the British population has received vaccination against Covid-19, it has been reported that most of the people who are still becoming very...
View ArticleWhy the Tories broke the Covid rules
Boris Johnson This past two weeks or more, the news here has been dominated by revelations about the behaviour of Boris Johnson and his friends during the two lockdowns in Spring 2020 and Winter 2021...
View ArticleRushdie, Khomeini and Muslims here and there
I was a child, and a long way from becoming Muslim, when the Rushdie affair happened. My mother was in college going through teacher training, and one of her college friends had a sister who was...
View ArticleShamima Begum, ‘grooming’ and responsibility
Shamima Begum Last week it was revealed (or rather, re-reported, as this matter had been known for some time) that the man who helped Shamima Begum and her two friends over the Turkish-Syrian border...
View ArticleBoris Johnson: goodbye, and good riddance
A Spectator front page from 2005, edited by Boris Johnson, prompted by riots in Europe prompted by police brutality in France Last weekend, the former prime minister Boris Johnson stepped down from...
View ArticleThe fork-tongued “devil dog” defenders
Kimbo (left) and his son Nico, who fatally attacked his owner’s four-year-old daughter Last weekend a video circulated of a terrier dog attacking people in a busy street in Birmingham, one of the...
View ArticleOn the Epstein conspiracy theories
Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York Since the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, there is a body of opinion that will not accept that his death was indeed suicide and that others must have been...
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