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ISLAMOPHOBIA TO BE CRIMINALISED IN THE UK?

12/02/2018

The Muslim Council and other Muslim organisations are urging Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and all other party leaders to adopt a newly proposed working definition of Islamophobia in an attempt to put pressure on the Home Office to follow suit. The definition was set out in a report published by a cross-party group of MPs in November 2018, and says: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” I take issue with both

NEO-LIBERALISM and LONELINESS

11/30/2018

In October (2018) the UK’s Tory government launched a strategy that the Prime Minister described as “a mission to end loneliness in our lifetimes.” Quite how any government believes that – without fundamentally reforming the entire neo-liberal foundations of society – it can make one iota of difference in the growing prevalence of social isolation that is such a feature of life for so many in Britain, escapes my comprehension. Loneliness – social isolation; alienation from society - is an

LATHA NAOMH ANNDRA SONA DHUIBH !

11/30/2018

(Photo by the Blogger: Ben Nevis) Aside from Scottish inventors and scientists introducing to the World products as diverse as antibiotics and the vacuum flask (to whose inventor, Sir James Dewar, I am related), Scottish engineers built by far the majority of the World's railways and locomotives, along with much of the World's shipping and the most iconic of the great steamers and ocean liners of the 20th century. The democratic accountability practiced within the Church of Scotland

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Robert Dewar

ISLAMOPHOBIA TO BE CRIMINALISED IN THE UK?

NEO-LIBERALISM and LONELINESS

LATHA NAOMH ANNDRA SONA DHUIBH !