niconoclast (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
You have to hand it to Peter Oborne.The man likes going out on a limb.On Monday he was on Ch 4 telling us that 'British' Muslims are a persecuted minority.We don't understand them.People aren't being nice to them.They are victims of prejudice.If we were saying the kind of things we are saying of muslims about black people or jews it would be seen as unacceptable racism.Er, one little...
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
The ever reliable Peter Oborne has an excellent article on Islamophobia in the Daily Mail of all places, ahead of a Dispatches docu on Monday. He mentions the Muslim bus driver who "ordered his passengers off so he could pray", which you might recall from these couple of posts and on 5cc : Take the story in a red-top newspaper (The Sun) earlier this year about a bus driver who apparently...
Famous for 15 megapixels (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
"...Last week, Martyn Gilleard, a Nazi sympathiser in East Yorkshire, was jailed for 16 years. Police found four nail bombs, bullets, swords, axes and knives in his flat. Gilleard had been preparing for a war against Muslims. In a note at his flat he had written, "I am sick and tired of hearing nationalists talking of killing Muslims, blowing up mosques and fighting back only to see these acts of resistance...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Will Alan Duncan square up to Peter Oborne after the Daily Mail columnist wrote about his business links... A fascinating spat is developing between Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne and the Shadow Business Secretary Alan Duncan. Writing in the Mail on Saturday, Oborne warned that the Tories' capacity for sleaze was not over. He suggested, for example, that Duncan's...
ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Peter Oborne writes about the big Tory turnaround in today's Daily Mail. He believes that Cameron has made major changes in order to transform his opinion poll ratings of last year. Here are some of Oborne's 'evidences' with our comments...
Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
This was one of the more shocking bits from Peter Oborne’s recent documentary ‘It shouldn’t happen to a Muslim’. A BNP activist tells Oborne about this views on Jews: “Probably seem as an ally…. for the future. There’s there’s the potential there for teamwork… the avenue there is for fresher cooperation.” Then the BNP operatives run [...]
Bob Piper (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
I've been a bit busy the last couple of days so I can only apologise for the late reference to Hopi Sen's fascinating timeline on little 'Oily' Alan Duncan . Following the recent spat with Peter Oborne, and amongst all the rumours of a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle I would have thought that Oily's days near the Industry portfolio, may well be numbered. On the subject of the tiny Tory, either...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
After the relief comes the doubt. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but Peter Oborne's blast about Islamophobia last week was too simplistic, too scattergun, and out of touch with where British Muslims seem to be at present.
Raedwald (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Gordon Brown's loathsome and repulsive immoral compass works every time in directing him towards a destination that screws the nation for reasons of selfish partisan comfort. Peter Oborne rightly rips him to shreds in this morning's Mail for an act that can almost be described as treasonous, in passing over for the nation's top defence post a man widely described as "one of the most outstanding...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
After the relief comes the doubt. I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but Peter Oborne's blast about Islamophobia last week was too simplistic, too scattergun, and out of touch with where British Muslims seem to be at present.
Stop the ACLU (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Demonizing the Devil A note from Radarsite: If the West actually loses this monumental cultural war, this latest violent onslaught of Islam, some of the blame for this great catastrophe will have to be laid at the feet of sanctimonious idiot journalists such as The Mail’s Peter Oborne. Enemy propagandists like Oborne can do more [...]
Indigo Jo Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... the idea on the Vanessa Feltz show this morning, and they had a pro-Thatcher contribution from Peter Oborne, now a columnist in the Daily Mail although he was formerly political editor of the Spectator. I knew my affections for Oborne, which were sown last week with his Dispatches programme last week, couldn't last; they were dramatically ended this morning when the guy came...
Links and Things (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... enough signatures to force a referendum on banning minarets throughout the country. In Britain, as Peter Oborne's Channel 4 film on Islamophobia this week underlined, a mendacious media and political campaign has fed anti-Muslim hostility and violence since the 2005 London bombings - just as hostility to asylum seekers was whipped up in the 1990s. The social and democratic degeneration...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Gee, don't they realize they can instantly get Sharia law by moving to Saudi Arabia... A friend of Coffee House is in touch to point out that the numbers from the ICM poll for Peter Oborne’s Dispatches programme last night, show that a plurality of Muslims under 35 are in favour of there being some parts of the UK where elements of Sharia are introduced. Here are the numbers: "Would you...
TV Scoop (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Taking one look at Peter Oborne, presenter of last night's Dispatches: It Shouldn't Happen to a Muslim (Channel 4, Monday, 7 July, 8pm) and you think "Good God you're a boring man". I know next to nothing about this bloke... but I bet he's right wing. It's a gut feeling I have. So with my gut feeling (which I've still no idea whether I'm right or not), I sat down and watched him talk...
