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Farrukh Dhondy | A sordid tale in UK as top BBC presenter lands in huge scandal

The story that emerges is a sordid, perhaps pitiable one.

15 Jul 2023 12:12 AM

The debate around trans-genders is about the rights of people to identify as they wish and not be discriminated in any way for so doing. (Photo by DIPTENDU DUTTA / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | If you can pick your gender... why can’t you choose species?

Liberal opinion in the shape of the Scottish Parliament passed a law to allow people to choose their gender.

08 Jul 2023 12:10 AM

Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, Newfoundland (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of May Balls in Cambridge… as Titan ‘adventure’ leads to tragedy

When the debris is examined by submarine experts, we shall probably know how the disaster occurred

01 Jul 2023 11:58 AM

Former Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | How I know that BoJo tells lies… He’s been doing it for a long time!

At least five of his nominations are of internal functionaries who know what went on with him and what went on in the Conservative Party HQ

24 Jun 2023 12:00 AM

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Caesar vs Brutus or Boris vs Rishi? Morality twist to UK power games

BoJo read the graffiti on the wall and resigned his seat before the judgment and penalty were announced.

17 Jun 2023 12:22 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Harry & Meghan might have lost their chance to make a difference

Harry has lived with the trauma of that death from his early childhood

10 Jun 2023 12:05 AM

The terrifying comment comes from those who claim that Putin has terminal cancer and so won’t mind taking Russia and part of the world with him when he dies. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Threat horizon: Nuclear strikes, climate horrors & AI apocalypse

Public opinion around the world, gentle reader, says that one can and should do something about climate change or the world is doomed

03 Jun 2023 12:00 AM

British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Amid dog-whistle politics, did Sunak go easy on Suella?

Cruella, in an attempt to drown the noisy negative publicity, has resorted to dog-whistle politics

27 May 2023 12:24 AM

Crowds are on the way to Buckingham Palace after the coronation ceremony for Britain's King Charles III in London, Saturday, May 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Farrukh Dhondy | Sleaze, hypocrisy, fraud, corruption: The many ills that bedevil UK today

The sin of some other nations puts the UK in the listening side of the confessional

13 May 2023 12:05 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | As King Charles III crowned, thoughts about democracy and its alternatives

Millions all over the world will watch as the BBC covers hours of march pasts by troops

06 May 2023 12:05 AM

Curiously, the Tory Party is not that sensitive about statements made by its MPs or indeed its home secretary, Cruella Braverman. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | What’s ‘fun’ can be offensive too… UK may have a ‘double standard’ on hate

The observation was inspired this week, gentle reader, by the recent incidents of supposed anti-religious bias

29 Apr 2023 12:05 AM

People take part in a rally in Trafalgar Square in support of striking NHS junior doctors, as the British Medical Association holds a 96-hour walkout in a dispute over pay, in London, Tuesday April 11, 2023. (Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Fresh mess in land of ‘Hedgimaharaj’: On maths teachers & nannies for kids

The first scene is set in a church hall which acts as a food bank, where volunteers hand out parcels, cans, vegetables, fruit

22 Apr 2023 12:05 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Why Sunak allows ‘racist rhetoric’ by Suella: Will it help keep him at No. 10?

Baroness Warsi, a former co-chair of the Tory Party, has criticised home secretary Suella “Cruella” Braverman for using “racist rhetoric”

15 Apr 2023 12:05 AM

The Met’s publicity department will undoubtedly attempt to inform the public about the purges and reforms of systems that it’s implementing in the post-Casey era. (Photo: Twitter)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of ‘bad apples’ and ‘good apples’: Why UK police needs a makeover

Only with root and branch reform will public faith in the Met be restored

08 Apr 2023 1:09 AM

Britain's first Indian-origin Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (AP Photo/Aberto Pezzali)

Farrukh Dhondy | Does African link colour attitudes of Indians in British politics?

s there a way of telling the mind’s construction by the candidacy or the policy?

01 Apr 2023 12:08 AM

A woman runs across London Bridge, backdropped by Tower Bridge, as she exercises in central London. (Representational image / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Of free speech and the Left, of Asians in UK & ‘cancel culture’

All The Spectator’s writers, boobies and cry-babies, protest against the “cancel culture” which denies the likes of Suella a platform

25 Mar 2023 12:14 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Trouble grows for Sunak after Lineker stands up for asylum seekers

Lineker’s intervention will certainly count against Cruella, Hedgie and their party at the next election

18 Mar 2023 12:19 AM

The NZ government has decreed that science classes have to be taught that Maori “Ways of Knowing” (Matauranga Maori) have equal standing with “Western sciences”. (Photo: ANI)

Farrukh Dhondy | Mixing up myths & modern science will only lead to confusion, tears

Government-enforced confounding of science and myth has caused seven professors of New Zealand’s universities to write in protest

11 Mar 2023 12:56 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Northern Ireland deal with EU is a big win for Rishi: But will it work?

BoJo’s Northern Ireland Protocol created what the Protestant Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) call a “border in the North Sea”

04 Mar 2023 12:19 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Hedgie desperate to clean up mess, as BoJo all out to return to No. 10

BoJo signed a deal whereby the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would remain open for the passage of goods

25 Feb 2023 12:05 AM

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