October 2009

I'm off to hear my hubby Tom's orchestra, the LPO, play a programme full of delicious Russian stuff tonight. We may have doubts about the 'Russian School', as per last month's print

Last Sunday, the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) revealed the relationship between the London Mayor's office and Mohamed Ali Harrath, who the Times exposed last year as being the subject of an

On Saturday 31 October, Islam4UK plans to hold a procession called "March for Sharia" starting at 1pm. They intend to march past the Houses of Parliament where their members will call for

I'm pasting the details of a press release from British Muslims for Secular Democracy below. I've been speaking with their vice-chair, Shaaz Mahboob, in the last few days and am hugely impressed

The Community Security Trust, which works to protect Britain's Jews from fascism in all its forms, has a very good guide to how the BNP uses media friendly language to cover up

Back from France to discover some news that might, um, set the musical world on fire: new research shows that 'Für Elise' may not have been composed by Beethoven, or at least

The Shadow Home Secretary has recently promised that a Conservative government will crack down on all types of extremists, including the ‘non-violent' ones. At the Tory conference yesterday he made two specific

Is it just me or has the whole world gone mad? Yesterday the Spittoon revealed that Inayat Bunglawala - the Mr Bean of modern Islamism - wrote an article promoting gay rights

A new message from Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban, recently surfaced marking the Islamic festival of Eid which passed just over two weeks ago. His verbose letter offers the usual ramblings

Robert Saviano has a poignant article in today's Times about the persecution of Italian journalists, which ties in with Maria Delius's piece in this month's Standpoint.