It is the morning after the day before, and I am still numb. The death of Jason Arday will be remembered as one of the worst episodes of racism in the British press. He was found at his home in south London on Friday afternoon. He was forty-one. The police have said only that the…… Continue reading The Cost of Racist Media Harassment: Jason Arday, Racism and the Violence of the British Press
Author: prof.t.abbas
The uses of Jason Arday
Essay · Race, universities and the public sphere The uses of Jason Arday A national press campaign about scholarly rigour is resting on a self-published, machine-generated blog post. The campaign defending him is resting on a claim the evidence will not carry. Both have made one man stand in for an argument he never agreed…… Continue reading The uses of Jason Arday
The Pen and the Poison
Satire, Cynicism, and the Lasting Legacy of Rod Liddle’s Islamophobia Rod Liddle has died at 66. The tributes call him brilliant, provocative, inimitable. They are silent on the twenty years he spent making British Muslims the punchline — and on the industry that decided this was a style, not a record. Rod Liddle died on…… Continue reading The Pen and the Poison
Mosque Security in Britain Must Be About Trust, Not Just Protection
At a time when mosques in Britain are reportedly attacked, vandalised, or physically damaged every few days, the question of mosque safety is no longer peripheral. It sits at the centre of British Muslim life, shaping how people worship, travel, organise, and imagine their place in society. This essay reflects on the National Emergency Conference…… Continue reading Mosque Security in Britain Must Be About Trust, Not Just Protection
The Algorithm of Apocalypse
The Algorithm of Apocalypse Essay · Geopolitics & History The Long View The comfortable myth & the harder reading The Algorithm of Apocalypse Why the viral “planetary renewal” trend is a comforting fantasy laid over a brutal geopolitical reality — and why genuine civilisational renewal has never once arrived quietly. Long read · 9 min…… Continue reading The Algorithm of Apocalypse
The Odyssey — A Review
Christopher Nolan turning his hand to Homer’s Odyssey was always going to be an event. Here is one of the founding texts of the Western canon in the hands of arguably the most ambitious filmmaker working today, and I went in with high expectations — tempered by a degree of trepidation as to whether a…… Continue reading The Odyssey — A Review
The Zionist Label and the Two Failures of Recognition: Muslim–Jewish Relations After 7 October
There is a figure who has become almost invisible in the polarised argument that has followed 7 October 2023: the Jew who is attached to Israel, calls themselves a Zionist, and is at the same time anguished, critical, and sometimes ashamed about what has been done in Gaza. This person exists in very large numbers.…… Continue reading The Zionist Label and the Two Failures of Recognition: Muslim–Jewish Relations After 7 October
Reading the Tables, Not the Headlines: What Britain Under Strain Leaves Out
The UK Extremism and Democratic Resilience Centre has launched with an inaugural report, Britain Under Strain, authored by Dame Sara Khan and Dr Matthew Godwin. It arrives with the grammar of alarm already fixed: a broken social contract, a collapsed cordon sanitaire, the mainstreaming of extremism, and a nation whose foundational bargain is failing. Much…… Continue reading Reading the Tables, Not the Headlines: What Britain Under Strain Leaves Out
Farage, Farage, Farage
Infamy, infamy, they have it infamy! Nigel Farage has resigned his Clacton seat, explicitly citing ongoing parliamentary standards probes into his failure to declare a £5 million crypto gift and related funding questions. His resignation has triggered a by-election, although the deeper question is whether he ultimately intends to contest it or use the moment…… Continue reading Farage, Farage, Farage
The Silence That Spoke Volumes: How Foreign Policy, Not Domestic Policy, Brought Down Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer’s resignation as Prime Minister and Labour leader on 22 June 2026 was delivered with characteristic composure outside 10 Downing Street. In a speech that ran to just under fifteen minutes, he catalogued his domestic achievements: a stronger economy, falling NHS waiting lists, improved workers’ and renters’ rights, and half a million children lifted…… Continue reading The Silence That Spoke Volumes: How Foreign Policy, Not Domestic Policy, Brought Down Keir Starmer