The riding list
All twelve of the firefighters who were working in my husband’s firehouse died on 9/11. The “riding list,” handwritten in chalk, listing all the men who were on duty that day, still hangs on the...
View ArticleMahsa Amini was beaten to death by the Iranian hijab police. Guess what...
Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish woman, was arrested by the morality police for having an improperly adjusted hijab. Witnesses say that she was beaten in the police van. Her relatives published...
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View Article“Islamophobia from the likes of Boris Johnson must be punished”
“Islamophobia from the likes of Boris Johnson must be punished – and this is how to do it”, writes Dr Suriyah Bi in the Guardian. How do we properly punish Islamophobes? As a lecturer in cultural...
View ArticleThe Lede Vanishes
I have a complaint about the media. First they make a bunch of films with the same stupid plot hole. I refer, of course, to the 1938 Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes, its 1979 and 2013 remakes, and...
View ArticleBreaking the cycle of violence
We are most of us familiar enough with how the cycle of violence works in the Middle East but for those who aren’t here is a quick summary: 1. Palestinian terrorists commit outrage. 2. Israel resolves...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Hamas unleashed hell
IDF spokesman Daniel Agari steps up to deliver some preliminary remarks. “We want people to understand what we are fighting for,” he says. “This is something else. Something has happened to Israel....
View ArticleArrestable and non-arrestable offences during religious protests
Ten months ago, a woman called Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic. For days ago, a man whose name the police know but have not made public was not...
View ArticleThe lever wasn’t long enough
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”, the great mathematician Archimedes is supposed to have said. Maybe it was their company name that led...
View ArticleIntersectionality in today’s NHS
Dr Wahid Asif Shaida has worked as an NHS doctor for a practice in Harrow for more than twenty years. He is described as having a senior role at the surgery as a mentor and trainer for...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – unsurprisingly totalitarians support...
“The kinds of people who are willing to justify, minimize, or deny the slaughter of millions by the likes of Stalin and Mao are unlikely to blanch at Hamas’ much smaller-scale atrocities. If you are...
View ArticleHamas in its own words: “We will do this again and again”.
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims – Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians...
View ArticleThe state of Private Eye
It is unlikely to be one of those subjects that ought to grab more than fleeting attention, but being a man of the media and with a liking for satire, wit and a good investigative story, like many of...
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Freedom and free movement
Some propositions: 1. Freedom is a good thing. It is good in itself and it leads to good outcomes. 2. Freedom includes “free movement”. 3. Free movement is a bad thing. It leads to bad outcomes. I can...
View ArticleNetanyahu quits
“Netanyahu quits over withdrawal from Gaza”. Having got your attention, I will now admit that the Guardian story by Conal Urquhart to which I just linked dates from 8 August 2005. Despite the news of...
View ArticleA million Muslims forced from their homes
I wanted to post something that wasn’t about the Israel-Hamas war. This is as close as I got. Pakistan starts mass deportation of undocumented Afghans – Shah Meer Baloch in the Guardian Why is Pakistan...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – ideological insanity edition
“There is an ironically neocolonial feel to the cultural elites’ absolution of Hamas. It is their indoctrination into the politics of identity that leads them to view Israel as the culpable adult in...
View ArticleBearing witness to the October 7th massacre
This is pretty grim stuff by the splendid Nancy Rommelmann. Read it anyway.
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Palestinian civilian deaths are at the heart of...
Hamas likes nothing better than an Israeli strike that kills civilians. That is why it has reportedly been preventing its people from fleeing the war zone, sometimes by force. They seemingly want...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Why Ayaan is now a Christian
At the time, there were many eminent leaders in the West — politicians, scholars, journalists, and other experts — who insisted that the terrorists were motivated by reasons other than the ones they...
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