Author Archives: inayatscorner

Sunday Telegraph: Muslim Leaders Oppose Gay Marriage Bill

Posted on May 19, 2013

A huge number of Imams and Muslim community figures have written a letter published in the right-wing Sunday Telegraph today expressing ‘serious misgivings’ about the Gay Marriage Bill. Here is the letter in full: SIR – We have serious misgivings … Continue reading →

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Cisco’s Interactive Magazine: The Connective

Posted on May 17, 2013

Cisco have posted the above new video about their partnership with Wired magazine to publish an interactive magazine, The Connective, which gives a glimpse of what the Internet of Everything will hold in store for us. You can download The … Continue reading →

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Hawking’s Courageous Stand Against Israeli Apartheid

Posted on May 11, 2013

The decision by Professor Stephen Hawking to support the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel is a hugely courageous one and he deserves support for speaking out on the issue of Israeli apartheid – an issue on which … Continue reading →

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What Is The Internet of Everything?

Posted on April 30, 2013

Cisco’s latest video about the ‘Internet of Everything’ suggests that it will help increase transparency – and therefore, one would presume, accountability too – from governments around the world. That has to be good news.

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Why Anti-Evolution Religionists Will Lose Against Science

Posted on April 13, 2013

A number of you got in touch with me following my recent series of posts about evolution and asked for a good book recommendation on the topic. I picked out Prof. Kenneth R. Miller’s Finding Darwin’s God because when I … Continue reading →

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Exhibition Review: Life & Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum

Posted on April 6, 2013

Earlier today, I went along to a new exhibition at the British Museum about the doomed Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The exhibition cost is £15 for adults. If you buy the annual member’s pass for the British Museum … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Secret In Their Eyes

Posted on April 5, 2013

  The Secret In Their Eyes is an Argentinian movie that won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. You can still watch it on BBC i-Player (available until this Sunday). I was going to post some notes about … Continue reading →

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Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism: An Important Ruling

Posted on April 2, 2013

Jews Sans Frontieres draws our attention to a very important official ruling delivered last week by the Employment Tribunal in a case brought by a Zionist teacher, Ronnie Fraser, alleging “institutional anti-semitism” against the University & College Union (UCU). In … Continue reading →

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Michael Caine Exhibition at the Museum of London

Posted on March 29, 2013

During lunchtime yesterday I popped into the Museum of London near the Barbican. It is a really wonderful museum with amazing artifacts from London’s history going back thousands of years to Stone Age times and earlier. An added bonus during … Continue reading →

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“Abu Qatada? Odd Name. Has a Long Beard Too? Boot Him Out!”

Posted on March 28, 2013

Yesterday’s ruling by the Appeals Court which rejected the Home Secretary, Theresa May’s, latest attempt to deport the Muslim cleric, Abu Qatada, restores some hope in our criminal justice system. Theresa May – like many Home Secretary’s – has long … Continue reading →

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