Like Jim, Jared’ll fix it. That’s what President Trump hopes anyway. Where’s Dr Magic?

by Rashmee

Posted on March 31, 2017


Americans may not recognise the reference but Jim’ll Fix It was a long-running British television …

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We must starve the likes of Masood of publicity

by Rashmee

Posted on March 30, 2017 / The National


Soon after the March 22 violence perpetrated outside the British parliament by a man named …

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Of course we shouldn’t blame Islam for terrorism. But don’t let’s gloss over this fact either

by Rashmee

Posted on March 29, 2017


David Shariatmadari’s rather well-argued piece in The Guardian asking if we should blame Islam for …

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Let’s stop doing the terrorists’ job for them and start calling these attacks ‘crimes’

by Rashmee

Posted on March 28, 2017


I implore you to watch Simon Jenkins’ comments on a BBC programme about the urgent …

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The rights and wrongs of Germany’s plan to deport two non-citizen terror suspects

by Rashmee

Posted on March 27, 2017


What’s with this story about Germany arranging to deport two German-born non-citizens for alleged involvement …

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Banning electronic devices: Security or economic protectionism?

by Rashmee

Posted on March 26, 2017 / The Arab Weekly


Is the Trump administra­tion’s new travel ban — not on people flying out of the …

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For Syria, ‘victory’ and ‘peace’ will be relative terms in the short term

by Rashmee

Posted on March 25, 2017


What might victory in Syria look like? That’s one of the questions addressed by a …

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The Trump family and terrorism: Gouging every wound, cutting at every gash?

by Rashmee

Posted on March 24, 2017


In his criticism of London mayor Sadiq Khan, Donald Trump Jr., son of the US …

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Is environmental law a luxury or a necessity?

by Rashmee

Posted on March 23, 2017 / The National


The last coal-fired power station closed in the Chinese capital just days after America’s new …

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Trump administration’s newest travel ban: not on people per se but their laptops!

by Rashmee

Posted on March 22, 2017


This blog was written within an hour of the news breaking on Tue, March 21. …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK