Women in burqas? No, ban men in suits…
Boris Johnson has outraged right-minded people with his attack on Muslim women comparing them to letterboxes and bank robbers if they wear traditional garments. In spite of the obvious racism […]
Tag Archives: islamophobia
Breaking: Tory Muslim peer hammers party chair over Islamophobia hypocrisy
Tory peer Sayeeda Warsi has gone public on Twitter with a scathing put-down of her party Chair Brandon Lewis after he made a self-satisfied comment on the release of the […]
Javid open to libel action for Corbyn tweet
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has opened himself to libel action by a tweet – to a now-deactivated account – clearly implying that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn teaches or misleads people […]
Bannon’s revealing off-mic outburst
Hard-right former Trump aide Steve Bannon has been interviewed a number of times this weekend by friendly faces such as his old pal Nigel Farage. But his composure cracked when […]
Tory chair’s 24hr u-turn – from zero tolerance of Islamophobia to claiming it’s just ‘playing politics’
On Friday, Tory chair Brandon Lewis wrote an article for the Conservative Home website in which he claimed that he and the party had adopted a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to […]
Innocuous 20-word email that signals an earthquake in heart of right-wing Labour
Yesterday afternoon, a short email was sent in the Black Country. Excluding the subject line and signature, it consisted of twenty words. To anyone who didn’t know its significance, it […]
Imagine #Gassama killed people instead – would his religion remain unmentioned?
Malian Mamoudou Gassama has been widely and rightly praised for his heroic intervention to save a child dangling from a fourth-floor balcony. But the mainstream media coverage has had troubling […]
Video: senior Tory says they listen to Muslim Council. So when is islamophobia inquiry?
Last week’s local election results saw Labour make significant net gains against the Tories – and an unseemly scramble by the Tory party to scrape any piece of ‘good’ news […]
Why did a SKWAWKBOX email re anti-racism make 41 MPs and 3 Peers run to the HuffPost?
It’s amazing what a simple email can do sometimes. Just ask the Tories, whose connections to Cambridge Analytica and their behaviour in outing a gay Muslim man for political purposes […]
Cabinet minister Javid tweets hate-mail ‘sent to him’ that was sent to a family last week
Sajid Javid is the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) and, as such, has direct governmental responsibility for community cohesion in the UK. On Thursday, Mr […]