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Basit Mahmood

Islamophobia Awareness Month

Over 3 years ago the government promised its own definition of Islamophobia. So where is it?

Basit Mahmood
28 June, 2022

For far too many, when it comes to the list of concerns about the current corrupt and incompetent government, Islamophobia and prejudice against Muslims isn’t considered to be anywhere near the top.

Keir Starmer speaking at the dispatch box of the House of Commons on the sacking of P&O Ferries workers at PMQs

Three Tory MPs ‘open talks to defect to Labour’

Basit Mahmood
28 June, 2022

Three male Tory MPs who won their seats in 2019 are in discussions to switch parties.

Theresa may

‘Not legal’: Theresa May slams government’s plan to rip up Northern Ireland Brexit deal

Basit Mahmood
28 June, 2022

‘This bill is not, in my view, legal in international law, it will not achieve its aims’

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
27 June, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

Times

Times slammed for ‘shockingly misleading’ bar chart on Boris Johnson’s popularity

Basit Mahmood
27 June, 2022

‘The world’s most misleading graph in Today’s Times’

barristers

Barristers go on strike over legal aid fees

Basit Mahmood
27 June, 2022

Junior barristers can earn as little as £88 a day in court for a bail application and are not paid for preparation work or travel, meaning they can end up earning less than the minimum wage.

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Boris Johnson hit with new wave of no confidence letters

Basit Mahmood
27 June, 2022

Boris Johnson’s announcement that he intended to run for a third term and govern into the mid 2030s, is said to have provoked Tory MPs

Oliver Dowden

Tory chair quits after spectacular by-election losses for Conservatives in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton

Basit Mahmood
24 June, 2022

Labour gained Wakefield from the Tories with a 12% swing, with the Lib Dems gaining Tiverton and Honiton with an almost 30% swing,

Radical Roundup

Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 4, June 2022

Basit Mahmood
22 June, 2022

The news you didn’t see this week…

Daily mail lab

Daily Mail mocked for front page claiming ‘Labour isn’t working’

Basit Mahmood
22 June, 2022

“The Tories have been in government for 12 years, and yet shitrags can still run nonsensical headlines”

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