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Who is Omar Shahid: Getting to know the real me
I’ve been thinking recently the way I come across on my blog is different to how I actually am in real life. So I just want to tell you, in casual terms, who I really am. I would say I am different....
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Were the Murdoch’s complicit in the phone hacking?
It all seems a bit fishy to me. Why does James Murdoch seem so vehement in his defence of Rebekah Brooks? Brooks, who was editor of the News of the World when they supposedly hacked into Milly Dowler’s...
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The Old Asian Man who really made me think
I saw an old, asian man rummaging through a bin in Ilford today as my Dad and I had just come out from a restaurant. And although this may not seem that unusual, it really made me think. About what...
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Amy Winehouse, Norway & Twitter: Thoughts on all three
So Amy Winehouse is dead. R.I.P. Does it make me sad? Not really. Probably from a drug overdose, although that’s just speculation. Winehouse, it seems, had given up and refused to treat herself. With...
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The clear ignorance of Richard Dawkins
In this weeks New Statesman magazine there is an article called: Faith no more. Andrew Zak Williams asked an array of public figures why they don’t believe in God. This follows an article written in...
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Ramadan is approaching: Why do Muslims fast?
The month of fasting for Muslims, also known as Ramadan, is looming. But why is it that Muslims fast? Fasting is a Quranic injunction prescribed upon the believers so that they may attain self...
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The Riots Have Nothing to do With The Police or The Government
Just a quick point. It seemed as if the riots first began because of the death of Mark Duggan who was shot by Police. This may be true, but since then, it has turned into a bunch of animals causing...
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David Starkey’s statements were shocking, but not racist
Having looked at various comments on national newspaper sites about the comments of David Starkey, I have found that I am by no means a minority in what I believe. What Starkey said was indeed...
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Advice to wannabe journalists
There is nothing quite like getting published for the first time. The jubilation you feel after all that effort you put into your article and then seeing your name in the byline of a national newspaper...
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Sports Stars: What happened to their Je Nais Sais Quoi?
Don’t you miss the rivalry between Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane back in the days when Arsenal were a half-decent team and capable of beating Manchester United? Don’t you miss the days when heavyweight...
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Twitter vs Journalism
Some say journalism is becoming more lazy. But maybe journalism is just entering a new phase, perhaps it is undergoing a mini revolution. These days, journalists don’t have to go out and get quotes...
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9/11 & The Forgotten War on Poverty, Obesity and The Mind
This may have been the ‘9/11 decade’, but it was also a decade in which the most pertinent issues facing humanity were subverted. Poverty. 9/15 – the date when the bankers crashed the global economy –...
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Tupac Shakur’s Legacy 15 years on
Tupac was a big contradiction. He was a thug but also a moral revolutionist, he was obdurate but also loving, he was a genius but also foolish. Despite the negatives, he is still seen as an inspiration...
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Why do we go to the cinema?
It doesn’t make sense really. Why do cinemas charge extortionate amounts for film tickets (and popcorn) when illegally downloading movies and buying dodgy DVDs has become so ubiquitous in recent times?...
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Florence Nightingale & The Arab Revolutions
Florence Nightingale once wrote: “[The] Arab would be the most thriving man in the world under any government but this. He will be beaten almost to death, as they often are, rather than give up.”...
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Spin – The Outside View on Current Affairs
James Lee (co-founder) and I first conceived the idea of Spin early in 2011, but since then, we have changed our minds about the direction of Spin several times. It started of as a simple current...
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Ex Director General of Al Jazeera Wadah Khanfar speaks at City University
Ex Director General of Al Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar, came to City University this evening for the annual memorial of the late James Cameron (journalist). Khanfar resigned from his post at Al Jazeera on...
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Muammar Gaddafi is Dead, But Was the Nato Intervention Worth it?
What a year it has been so far: we have seen the downfall of Tunisia’s Ben Ali, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, the killing of Bin Laden, and, today, Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was captured and then killed....
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EXCLUSIVE: Vince Cable Says Our Economy Is In A ‘Crisis’& Labour Dealt With...
“What’s happening is extraordinarily serious. We’re in a very deep crisis,” Vince Cable, Business Secretary, said last night in the first of many startling admissions. Cable – speaking alongside John...
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Review: Restless Beings, Human Writes 2 @ Rhythm Factory
Hip Hop and Rap isn’t always portrayed in the best way: diatribe, misogyny and violence is often linked with the two. However, Restless Beings, a non-profitable charity founded in 2007, decided to...
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