It is important to reflect on the recent incident in Golders Green, which has left the Jewish community in a state of shock and despair at what has been recognised as an acute act of antisemitism. When random Jewish community members are targeted on the streets of Golders Green for no other reason than that…… Continue reading The Messy Truth of Golders Green: Antisemitism, Mental Health, and the Politics of the Easy Narrative
Author: prof.t.abbas
Birmingham at 101 seats: the end of a single-party city
On 7 May 2026, Birmingham goes to the polls with all 101 council seats in play, and the PollCheck projection points to a near-certain change of control. The model puts Labour on 10 seats, Conservatives on 23, Liberal Democrats on 13, Greens on 16, Reform on 20, and Others on 19, with 51 seats required…… Continue reading Birmingham at 101 seats: the end of a single-party city
The “Open-Shut” Case: How to Blockade a Blockade to Un-Blockade a Non-Blockade
Welcome to the 2026 Edition of Geopolitics for the Severely Concussed. If you’ve been following the news regarding the Strait of Hormuz, you might be feeling a bit of lightheadedness. Don’t worry; that’s just your brain’s natural defence mechanism trying to shut down before it has to process the tactical “genius” currently emanating from the…… Continue reading The “Open-Shut” Case: How to Blockade a Blockade to Un-Blockade a Non-Blockade
Square Zero: Anxiety, Geopolitics, and the Weight of Constant Crisis
I am in one of those really weird moments when one suddenly thinks it’s all going to go really bad, but actually, how much worse can it get? A bit of good political news I’ve heard today is that Hungary is about to elect a centre-right prime minister, shifting the current landscape dominated by Viktor…… Continue reading Square Zero: Anxiety, Geopolitics, and the Weight of Constant Crisis
Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud (So I Don’t Have To): An Establishment General’s Verdict on the Middle East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPt47bhsVy8 I am writing today simply to summarize and amplify the astonishing, unvarnished insights of a man who possesses the kind of unimpeachable establishment credentials that I do not. Major General Charlie Herbert is not a brown Muslim activist. He is a retired senior officer who spent 34 years in the British Army, rising from…… Continue reading Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud (So I Don’t Have To): An Establishment General’s Verdict on the Middle East
The Unamused Critic Converted: On Riz Ahmed’s Meta-Cinematic Bait
I wasn’t quite sure what to make of Bait, the new Amazon Prime six-part series written and produced by Riz Ahmed. I was watching, thinking clearly there’s a great deal of fuss about it, so it’s either really useful and interesting and artistically well put, or people are praising it because of the Riz Ahmed…… Continue reading The Unamused Critic Converted: On Riz Ahmed’s Meta-Cinematic Bait
Branding Birmingham: The Audacity of the Demographic Dividend
We are no longer bankrupt. We are no longer apologising. We are the youngest, most diverse, most audacious city in Europe. It is time we started acting like it.
The Caliphate of Croydon: How Britain’s Bourgeoisie Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Halal Apocalypse
A dispatch from the frontlines of the Great Replacement, where every suburban cul-de-sac is a potential emirate and white women live in fear of being force-fed baklava It is 6:45 AM on a Tuesday morning in Royal Tunbridge Wells, and Margaret Whitmore-Smythe has not slept. She stands at her bay window, clutching her Yorkshire Tea,…… Continue reading The Caliphate of Croydon: How Britain’s Bourgeoisie Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Halal Apocalypse
The Geopolitics of Prayer: When Public Worship Becomes an “Act of Domination”
In the lexicon of contemporary political discourse, certain phrases reveal more about the speaker than the subject. When Nick Timothy, the Conservative Party’s shadow justice secretary, described Muslim prayer in Trafalgar Square as an “act of domination”, he inadvertently exposed the architecture of a deeper pathology. Writing on X regarding the Open Iftar event hosted…… Continue reading The Geopolitics of Prayer: When Public Worship Becomes an “Act of Domination”
The “Muslim Threat” Video: How Numbers Lie
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VatuEcSKn4U You’ve probably seen the video or presentation slides. Confident framing, a stark green background declaring “Official UK Government data”, and a simple, dangerous message: Muslims are a burden and a threat. It feels convincing because it borrows the credibility of the Office for National Statistics. But here’s how the presentation actually manipulates you. The…… Continue reading The “Muslim Threat” Video: How Numbers Lie