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The decline of GNRD, the strange NGO-type organisation linked to the United Arab Emirates, continued this week when its accreditation at the European Parliament expired.
In its heyday, GNRD had 15 people registered for lobbying purposes in Brussels, with permits granting them access to the EU…
A survey of attitudes among British Muslims has been generating controversy this week. The survey's aim, in the words of Channel 4 who commissioned it, was "to get a better understanding of British Muslims’ attitudes to living in Britain and British institutions".
Much of the subsequent media…
A survey of attitudes among British Muslims has been generating controversy this week. The survey's aim, in the words of Channel 4 who commissioned it, was "to get a better understanding of British Muslims’ attitudes to living in Britain and British institutions".
Much of the subsequent media…
In April 2016, a vast number of leaked documents known as the Panama Papers shed new light on the murky world of offshore finance. The documents named prominent figures from many countries, including Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab…
There's a story told in the hadith that the Prophet Muhammad once saw a boy with a partly-shaved head – and disapproved. "Shave all of it or leave all of it," he is reported to have said.
Fourteen centuries later, this little incident is causing ructions on Saudi Arabia's soccer pitches…
The behaviour of Egypt's Sisi regime is increasingly shambolic. Last week relations with Italy took an unnecessary turn for the worse over the regime's obstructive attitude to investigating the torture and death of Julio Regeni, the Italian PhD student whose horribly mutilated body was…
A British MP has accused the UAE's government-run news agency of making up quotes in support of the Gulf state's oppressive human rights policies.
Last weekend the Emirati website, Gulf News, published a story headed "British House of Commons praises human rights in UAE". In fact, the House of…
There's another twist in the tale of the UAE and a visiting delegation of British MPs.
For the benefit of new readers, the story so far is that the Emirati government's news agency, WAM, issued two reports last weekend claiming the MPs had praised the UAE's awful human rights record. Both…
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