Sweet fruit laid bare on a rugged table, supple skinned and furred. To juxtapose the craggy eggshell-tempera smeared around his stretched face. From widows peak to concave dimple, soft and milky like a new-born babe. Shrivelled and unwanted like crumpled paper, now a different shade of flesh. A riverbank of […]

The Bible is the best-selling book in the world and, whilst many of us have a copy, we may not always be overly familiar with some of the passages. Thankfully for us, a few kind-hearted souls online have compiled some of the wittiest and funniest articles on the web regarding […]

Every year when the festival of Eid comes around, I am constantly asked what is Eid? To which I reply it’s the Islamic Christmas. Well to be honest it’s not but it’s an easy way to explain to my non-Muslim friends, who are curious to find out about this “Eid” […]

STOP: Meat plant next to place of worship It has been 1 month and 12 days since Bradford Council approved a planning application, submitted by Pakeezah Supermarket – a premier ethnic food store – to open up a meat processing plant, which will be directly situated behind Guru Gobind Singh […]

Religion. Does religion have any relevance whatsoever in current society? It’s one of those topics some or most people may not necessarily agree to but let me break it down so you have a better understanding of what I’m trying to say but let you decide for yourself. Religion. Some […]

The very definition of liberalism can be summarised in Voltaire’s famous quote, ‘I don’t agree with what you’re saying, but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it.’ It is rare that the essence of an ideology can be truly captured in a single sentence, but I feel […]

Ancient Greece Around 2000 years ago the Ancient Greeks, with their infinite wisdom, considered philosophy a science. We don’t do the same today, however, so why would the Greeks have done so when their science was so developed, creating the first models of things like vending machines, fire hoses and […]

Who, in their sane and proper mental condition, thinks to celebrate the loss of innocent lives? A death is not a celebratory occasion for normal people, especially not the death of the blameless at the hands of crazed fanatics. Yesterday saw the deaths of the US ambassador to Libya, as […]