In his Christmas message to the nation, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that getting vaccinated against COVID is what Jesus would have done had he been alive today. Standing in front of a Christmas tree in Downing Street, he went on to explain why: “getting jabbed not just for themselves…

7 July 2021 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Bradford riots. Some of the worst rioting in British history, not since the 1981 riots in Brixton, Handsworth and Toxteth had the country seen anything akin to what unfolded over two days and two nights. Within weeks, I was in Bradford…

Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the spectre of Islamophobia again raised its ugly head in the UK’s political spaces with both of the main political parties finding themselves implicated. For Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, this involved the Muslim Council of Britain publishing a dossier of more than 300 allegations of…

It’s not easy being a fan of Millwall Football Club. While it is undeniably true that ‘No One Likes Us, We Don’t Care’ — as the fans sing on the terraces — it is also undeniably true that some Millwall fans really don’t seem to care about the Club and…

(This article was originally scheduled for publication on an alternative platform on Thursday 29 October 2020. After the attacks in Nice, the article was put on indefinite hold. …

Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the spectre of Islamophobia again raised its ugly head in the UK’s political spaces with both of the main political parties finding themselves implicated. For Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, this involved the Muslim Council of Britain publishing a dossier of more than 300 allegations of…

For more than a decade, the British Government has identified Islamist extremism as posing the greatest terror threat to the country and its people. …

This is an updated version of an article first published in Turkish in the German-based magazine, Perspektif on 29th November 2019. The original can be viewed by clicking here. The faux outrage following the news this week that some of Warburtons’ bread range is now halal-certified was far from unexpected…

This article was originally published in Turkish in the German-based magazine, Perspektif on 27th February 2019. The original can be viewed by clicking here. NB: Since publishing this article, my views about the ‘need’ for a working definition and the ‘function’ such a definition serves have undergone significant change. …