Is there a collective Muslim identity moving as one in solidarity? Or is this about something else? — I see what’s happening to Palestinian civilians and I don’t have the correct arrangement of words to express my sorrow. After what happened to Jewish civilians on October 7 at the hands of the proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas, everyone but those who are morally bankrupt expressed their horror and knew…

Israel is going too far too fast — It’s now common knowledge that the proscribed terrorist organization Hamas provoked the state of Israel and its Jewish people around the world by raping and murdering Jewish civilians, kidnapping others, and broadcasting the savagery widely for maximum warfare entertainment. And the masses lapped it up. At that stage, all those…

The current war in Israel has revealed who your neighbors and fellow nationals really are. — The very people who’ve presented themselves as liberal and progressive, who marched flying the flags of equality, non-discrimination, human rights, trans rights, women’s rights, women and girls’ education, civil rights, Black Lives Matter…those same people now cannot distinguish between support for the victimized Palestinian people and support for Hamas raping…

I recently decided to see what it’s like to chat online because I don’t have any social media. The level of gunk in online spaces is staggering and depressing. — I had Facebook back in the day but I deleted it in 2012. I couldn’t cope with the level of stupidity I was witnessing from grown men and women; teenagers get a pass but adults ought to have an ounce of decorum and self-respect. …

Brother against brother. — As I watch the news about the war between Palestine and Israel, everyone supporting their side of the story looking for ways to rationalize why they have legitimacy in using lethal force, all I can think of is: when does this war of brothers end? Whether metaphorically in biblical terms…

Let’s talk about Ava Evans. Feminism. Civilised public discourse. Priorities. — Most people hadn’t heard of a woman called Ava Evans. I had no idea who this woman was. But we now do because the well-known provocateur Laurence Fox said she’s not shagable. As in, not doable. Sexually. I don’t know why he went there but he did and debased the…

Some men have overstayed their welcome. — People interpret the world drawing from schemas: mental images that capture the nature or quality of the world. Schemas are mental (cognitive) models of organising all incoming information to be stored in long-term memory. …

All this saga about misogyny — yeah right, as if you care… — It’s the hypocrisy that gets to me. The performativity: women this, women that; women and girls; women’s rights. Right. How noble and altruistic. I’m sure you’re now all caught up about how the former darling of the Left — Russell Brand — is actually a violent fiend. That’s generally the…

I wonder what the best way forward might be at times such as these… — There is footage from last year circulating and causing outrage about yet another incident of racism. This time it involves a young Black girl. Olympic champion Simone Biles has weighed in about the ‘heartbreaking’ video sent to her by the parents of the girl. The incident occurred in Dublin in…