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Sharia patrols stalk the streets of Llandudno

When I was a kid back in the 1950s our family regularly took our summer holidays in the North Wales…
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Posted on: 25th March 2018 Last updated on: 3rd April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Rationalising imperialism

Francis Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, Harper, 2004. Paperback, 338pp, £8.99. THE TITLE of…
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Posted on: 14th March 2018 Last updated on: 25th March 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Undercover: Book review

Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police, by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis, Faber & Faber 2013, 346pp, £12.99…
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Posted on: 13th March 2018 Last updated on: 13th March 2018 Written by: bobpitt

Abdulmutallab, al-Awlaki, the Finsbury Park Mosque and Andrew Gilligan

The Caldicott inquiry has now cleared University College London and the students’ union Islamic Society of playing any part in converting the…
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Posted on: 13th March 2018 Last updated on: 13th March 2018 Written by: bobpitt

Gilligan denies anti-Muslim backlash

The Sunday Telegraph of 2 June featured an article by Andrew Gilligan, “The truth about the ‘wave of attacks on…
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Posted on: 12th March 2018 Last updated on: 30th June 2021 Written by: bobpitt

The Right, the Left and ‘free expression’

On Saturday 25 March 2006 a campaign calling itself the “March for Free Expression” (MFE) held a widely publicised demonstration…
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Posted on: 1st March 2018 Last updated on: 19th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Dog whistle politics in Tower Hamlets

Contrary to the right-wing myth that it is being transformed into “Britain’s Islamic Republic”, the east London borough of Tower…
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Posted on: 28th February 2018 Last updated on: 29th March 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Tatchell, OutRage! and the Grand Mufti

Last month the notoriously homophobic mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, attended a mayoral summit meeting in London hosted by London’s…
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Posted on: 22nd February 2018 Last updated on: 29th March 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Maryam Namazie and her allies

This week Maryam Namazie of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran announced the publication of a new book, Enemies Not Allies: The Far-Right.…
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Posted on: 22nd February 2018 Last updated on: 29th March 2021 Written by: bobpitt

The unacceptable face of secularism

Will a UKIP-supporting ‘comedian’ who rants about ‘immigrant rapists’ get to be Secularist of the Year? The list of nominees for the…
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Posted on: 20th February 2018 Last updated on: 25th March 2021 Written by: bobpitt
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