Women’s rights activists in Tunisian led an historic march on Saturday to demand equal inheritance rights for both sexes in the North African country. Like other Arab countries, Tunisia’s inheritance law is based on Islamic jurisprudence, and specifies that female heirs must receive only half the amount that males are...
By Rupert Read This winter, now finally ending, has seen disturbing early signs of the Earth’s climate starting perhaps to go out of control. The fierce cold snap in the UK occurred because the Arctic’s normal weather came down here; meanwhile, the Arctic was off-the-scale warm. Such events concentrate the...
By Dr Roger Cottrell To listen to the selective media coverage and political sound bites regarding the poisoning, on March 4, in Salisbury, of Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, you might for a moment start to believe that Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Amber Rudd planned to...
As those of you who have followed by various blogs will know, I have long been on a quest for the perfect hairdressing experience. A friend in the industry, told me about The Chapel and how they are different, so I set out to see for myself, how different could...
Police are investigating letters which are being circulated instructing people to play a "punish a Muslim" game - including throwing ACID at them. Officers are probing the disgusting letter which has a 'points' system for carrying out disturbing acts. Police in Bradford have acknowledged they are investigating reports of letters...
By Rupert Read and Bennet Francis It’s time we faced up to reality: humanity is almost certainly going to have to learn to live in a world that has been radically damaged and transformed by human-triggered climate change. We are – virtually all of us, either softly or (less often)...
Religion, faith and culture are always hotly debated topics, no more so than when it comes to fostering Muslim children. But there is a problem - the number of Muslim children in need of foster care in England outnumbers the number of Muslim foster carers. Like all children, they have...
By Dr Roger Cottrell “But make no mistake, the sky will fall in” -Harry Perkins in “A Very British Coup,” Channel 4, 1988. A week is reputedly a long time in politics. Looking at the seven-day time span that began, on February 16, 2018, it at times seemed (for...
By Sammy Russell The EU released its draft exit treaty earlier this week, which formally spelled out the terms of Brexit and what it may mean in practice. It shows just how tricky preserving peace in Northern Ireland will be if the UK wants to stick to the red lines it...