IMAGE by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay It’s another day of lock down and social media users in Britain have found a perfect and hilarious way to kill some time on Twitter. The latest trend involves sharing a picture of yourself ‘aged 20’. There is something always new trending on Twitter but this is one of my favourite topics because […]
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IMAGE: Volunteers deliver meals to staff at Croydon University Hospital, London | Picture Credits: Anwar Rizvi A group of Muslims from South London have come together to do something amazing for the staff at their local hospital. Anwar Rizwi and others volunteered to deliver a whopping and impressive 400 vegetarian meals to the staff working […]
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IMAGE: NHS staff at Royal Gwent Hospital receive free pizza. A Muslim woman in Wales bought pizza for nurses and doctors at the Royal Gwent Hospital in New Port. Zohra Hussain, a mother of two children, did this highly commendable act to show her appreciation for the heroes working at the front line in the […]
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Image by Michal Jarmoluk from Pixabay Gary Lineker, who used to play for England’s football team and is now a sports commentator, has decided to donate two months’ worth of his salary. He is donating this money to the British Red Cross. He chose British Red Cross as the destination of his generous donation because they are ‘doing […]
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Image by Miguel Á. Padriñán from Pixabay Coronavirus is a biological virus coupled with a social disease: the spread of it has brought out the worst in humans, it has re-popularised Nazi theories of ‘the survival of the fittest’ and made us a gazillion times more selfish than before. Imagine that you’re in a high risk category. Now, […]
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Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay Londoners have welcomed mayor Sadiq Khan’s and Guy Verhofstadt MEP’s proposal of an ‘associate EU citizenship’ for British citizens who would like to continue using their right to freedom of movement after the transition period comes to end. The proposal is gaining praise from people outside of London as well, who say […]
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Image: Keir Starmer QC. Picture credits: Chatham House | Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) The Labour party leadership starting gun was fired before election night was even over. At his own count in Islington, the Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, announced that he would not lead his party into another election. Jeremy Corbyn […]
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Picture Credits: Image by A. H. from Pixabay Iain Duncan Smith, the father of the ‘heartless’ Universal Credit system, is to receive a knighthood as part of the New Year’s Honours list, it has been reported. The former Tory leader and long-serving MP is most notably known for his austere welfare policies. Human rights advocates, opposition politicians and […]
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Switch on the TV, browse social media platforms, flick through newspaper pages, and observe recent polling and one will come across one broad consensus: the only way to defeat Boris Johnson and bury Brexit is through tactical voting. The urgency to vote tactically is not confined to just one camp but is, in fact, a […]
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This is the final day of the #UCUStrikesBack action and I haven’t tweeted about it all, though I’ve picketed a bit and thought about it a lot. Terrible things have been happening in the world beyond the strike too, which has made me think and rethink this funny career. I recognise that my job is […]
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