Since early morning, my family and I have been living in a state of total psychological collapse. Today we learned that our homes, our land, and our entire neighborhood, every house belonging to our family and our neighbors, have been completely erased. Bulldozed. Flattened into

Cringe-worthy - so patronising and demeaning.

Today's unsurprising discovery on X: a careful attempt to defend Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab brings the Islamophobes rushing to mock and condemn, in a revealing display of prejudice and willful ignorance. Just to be clear, a hijab is a head scarf, that's all.

I came back today. I thought I had known despair before, but what I saw today is beyond despair. It is not grief, nor horror, nor pain. It is something colder, a stillness where even God seems to have withdrawn His hand. The sky was impossibly blue. The kind of blue that mocks

Im doing Thought for the Day - BBC Radio 4 Today. Sorrow, desolation and the yearning for peace.

Here's the link to my Thought for the Day yesterday, in which I quote from Dr. Ezzideen's harrowing description of his return to his demolished home and neighbourhood in Gaza, and the struggle that traumatised Israeli hostages face after their return home. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0m….

“In circumstances where there was silencing, it seems to me that universities have a duty to provide a space for rational discussion… and they absolutely failed that test.” CAF Advisory Board member, Prof Alice Sullivan, speaking on our second panel, “Censorship in the

Time to share something beautiful - especially for those who use “medieval” as a synonym for “barbaric”.

Interesting survey results. Note the disparity between 91% who think ⁦BBC⁩ should be independent of the govt of the day, and 43% who think it actually is. Govt and the BBC must take this on board. 93% think it should pursue the truth with no agenda. bbc.co.uk/ourbbcourfutur…

Sometimes cartoonists are the best truth-tellers. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The only common denominator among grooming gangs and rapists isn’t religion, race or class: it’s sex. They’re all men even when women collude. But Ghislaine Maxwell became the scapegoat while powerful professors, politicians and princes walked free. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o…

The papacy is becoming the world’s voice of conscience.

I’ve just finished this chillingly prescient novel and can’t recommend it too highly. I read it on Kindle then bought the paperback because some books are worth keeping - and ⁦Persephone Books⁩ are beautifully produced. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

If a small-town Imam had dismissed extremist hate speech by young Muslims with these words, it would have created a hysterical outburst of Islamophobia. But the Catholic VP of the US got away with saying it about extremist white Republicans: politi.co/4h9dJAK via POLITICO

The police have informed my lawyers that I face no further action in respect of the arrest at Heathrow in September. After a successful hearing to get my bail conditions lifted (one which the police officer in charge of the case didn't even bother to attend) the Crown

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“There was a war being fought.” It is not war when one of the world’s most powerful military states reduces the lives and homes of its unarmed, defenceless neighbours to rubble and ruin.

This. When sex and gender are no longer distinguishable, all the playful and creative beauty of gender fluidity is frozen in the embittered grievances and oppressive stereotypes of identity politics.