Tories accuse Muslims of ‘creating apartheid by shutting themselve…
The News Review:
- Tories accuse Muslims of ‘creating apartheid by shutting themselve…
- Interview: Ciaran Hancock: Pirate captain charts course to rock
- Big Bang saved London … for outsiders
- Net profit – TV & Radio – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Tales of the veil
- Communities minister Phil Woolas backs veil sacking
Tories accuse Muslims of ‘creating apartheid by shutting themselve…
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 15, 2006
” Mr Davis’s comments follow a series of events that highlight the reluctance among some Muslims to integrate fully into British society. Aishah Azmi, a 24-year-old teaching assistant, is taking legal action because her school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, asked her to remove her veil in front of children. Madani High School, an Islamic school in Leicester, is ordering its non-Muslim girls to wear headscarves. An ICM poll this weekend showed 57 per cent of voters want Muslims to do more to fit in and 53 per cent agree with Mr Straw that the full veil creates a barrier between Muslim women and other people.
Interview: Ciaran Hancock: Pirate captain charts course to rock
Times Online – Oct 15, 2006
Phantom will launch its schedule on Wednesday, with Roe keeping mum on the line-up. It will continue to showcase up-and-coming Irish rock bands that appeal to its 18-35 target audience, he says. It is widely acknowledged that the station helped launch the careers of the Frames, the Republic of Loose and Bell X1. About 30% of the music output will be home-grown.
Big Bang saved London … for outsiders
Times Online – Oct 15, 2006
Warburg bank and Scholey were widely tipped to make it into the top division of the new order. It didn’t work out that way. A few home-grown individuals have prospered under foreign masters, but no British bank now plays in the financial first division alongside the American and European giants. At first, Warburg acted true to form. In the mid-1980s it bought a jobber — a market firm that quoted prices — Ackroyd & Smithers, and the stockbrokers Rowe & Pitman and Mullens. Though small, the brokerage gave Warburg access to the lucrative market in gilts — UK government stocks. It all worked well until the early 1990s… Big Bang was both a Herculean task and a step along the way. “It was a definitive moment in the process of the British economy becoming competitive. It had to be true in the entirety of UK Inc, along with cars, records, retail price maintenance [price fixing] and many other things that had to be discarded. It was absolutely critical and very difficult to achieve. “I am a great believer in mess. In the act of doing anything it feels like a mess, and it gets tied up once you get a historical view of it. Big Bang has liberated London to become the financial centre of the globe in a very big way.
Net profit – TV & Radio – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Oct 15, 2006
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Tales of the veil
Hindu – Oct 15, 2006
During the Taliban years, some women would celebrate Eid or festivals by buying new chadoris rather than new clothes, since that was what you saw first and last of their appearance. So the style of the chadori became pretty important. Even now, the nice ones from Iran or the Gulf cost too much for me to afford, so I’m stuck with the home-grown variety that makes me look fat. ”
As the technology of representation reaches deeper into Kabul’s society, interesting trends are emerging. Women who would resist being photographed earlier are ready to talk on camera provided they are in their burqas. The image is hilariously contradictory, since it defeats rather effectively the purpose of the visual medium. But it also indicates the nuanced nature of the relationship between the camera and its veiled subject.
Communities minister Phil Woolas backs veil sacking
Politics.co.uk – Oct 15, 2006
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The debate over Muslim veils was sparked by cabinet minister Jack Straw’s suggestion earlier this month that they could represent a barrier between communities. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph today, shadow home secretary David Davis said the leader of the House of Commons had touched on the “fundamental issue of whether, in Britain, we are developing a divided society”. “At the starkest level, we may be creating conditions in the recesses of our society that foster home-grown terrorism,” he added. An ICM poll published in the Guardian says that 57 per cent of voters want Muslims to integrate more fully, while 53 per cent agree with Mr Straw that the veil can create a barrier between communities.