In the wake of the Chapel Hill murders, people of Left-wing persuasion have been doing a lot of talking about the double standards which are...

There was a fair amount of media chin-scratching last year about a supposed glumness and seriousness creeping into popular movies.  The real...

This article - from Rachel Shabi in The Guardian - is really great.  It's about the Islamophobia encoded in the recent spate of much-l...

The terrible killings of Americans in Libya have provoked an entirely foreesable reaction.  Loads of smug conservatives and equally smug lib...

The utility to Western imperialism of depicting Arabs with the kind of culturalist discourse of modern vs. pre-modern, secularism vs. cultis...

We've all seen him.  He's swarthy, usually (though not always) with a dark beard.  He's often wearing a fez (no, I'm not goi...

The BBC doing what it does best : "In Iran's iconography of villainy, Britain holds a special place. The UK is seen as the mastermi...

A rejigg of something I wrote for the old site on the subject of 'Turn Left', the best episode of series 4. The alternate world t...