Priorities

You expect drivel in the Guardian, yet it still sometimes manage to astonish me with the sheer magnitude of it's inanity. Such it is with this article about Billy Graham by Matthew Avery-Sutton, who declares that the evangelist was on the wrong side of history on "civil rights and the environmental crisis, the most important …

They just don’t get it

What is the "elasticity" of Brexit? Asks Hugh Muir in the Guardian? Elasticity is the term economists use to measure the responsiveness of one economic variable in relation to another. For example petrol is highly inelastic, people need petrol so a 10% rise in the price will lead to a less than 10% fall in …

When it’s ok to generalise, demonise and scare monger

Can you imagine for a minute the uproar if this headline was about any other ethnicity? Even if it stated the bloody obvious by asking something like "Why are Muslims more likely to carry out terror attacks?" We would hear howls of indignation that we were alienating Muslims. Demonising this great faith and risking driving …

Wealth and why it matters

The last 2 posts have focused on my own finances and my long term project to get them in order. You might well ask what this is doing on a blog all about Islam and Britain's slide into ugly authoritarianism. In this post I shall attempt to answer that question. The more I rationalised my …

How rich I am

Like most problems, once you acknowledge how poor you are and formulate a logical plan to change your circumstances it becomes quite satisfying and even enjoyable to make the necessary changes.  You can liken it to climbing a mountain which can seem daunting at first, but once you drag yourself from the comforting warmth of …