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Farrukh Dhondy
Farrukh Dhondy | Amid dog-whistle politics, did Sunak go easy on Suella?
Cruella, in an attempt to drown the noisy negative publicity, has resorted to dog-whistle politics
27 May 2023 12:24 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Sleaze, hypocrisy, fraud, corruption: The many ills that bedevil UK today
The sin of some other nations puts the UK in the listening side of the confessional
13 May 2023 12:05 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | As King Charles III crowned, thoughts about democracy and its alternatives
Millions all over the world will watch as the BBC covers hours of march pasts by troops
06 May 2023 12:05 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | What’s ‘fun’ can be offensive too… UK may have a ‘double standard’ on hate
The observation was inspired this week, gentle reader, by the recent incidents of supposed anti-religious bias
29 Apr 2023 12:05 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Fresh mess in land of ‘Hedgimaharaj’: On maths teachers & nannies for kids
The first scene is set in a church hall which acts as a food bank, where volunteers hand out parcels, cans, vegetables, fruit
22 Apr 2023 12:05 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Why Sunak allows ‘racist rhetoric’ by Suella: Will it help keep him at No. 10?
Baroness Warsi, a former co-chair of the Tory Party, has criticised home secretary Suella “Cruella” Braverman for using “racist rhetoric”
15 Apr 2023 12:05 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Of ‘bad apples’ and ‘good apples’: Why UK police needs a makeover
Only with root and branch reform will public faith in the Met be restored
08 Apr 2023 1:09 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Does African link colour attitudes of Indians in British politics?
s there a way of telling the mind’s construction by the candidacy or the policy?
01 Apr 2023 12:08 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Of free speech and the Left, of Asians in UK & ‘cancel culture’
All The Spectator’s writers, boobies and cry-babies, protest against the “cancel culture” which denies the likes of Suella a platform
25 Mar 2023 12:14 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Trouble grows for Sunak after Lineker stands up for asylum seekers
Lineker’s intervention will certainly count against Cruella, Hedgie and their party at the next election
18 Mar 2023 12:19 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Mixing up myths & modern science will only lead to confusion, tears
Government-enforced confounding of science and myth has caused seven professors of New Zealand’s universities to write in protest
11 Mar 2023 12:56 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Northern Ireland deal with EU is a big win for Rishi: But will it work?
BoJo’s Northern Ireland Protocol created what the Protestant Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) call a “border in the North Sea”
04 Mar 2023 12:19 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Hedgie desperate to clean up mess, as BoJo all out to return to No. 10
BoJo signed a deal whereby the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would remain open for the passage of goods
25 Feb 2023 12:05 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | ‘Flummery’ at King’s coronation, but no Kohinoor in Camilla’s crown
Camilla, the Queen Consort, will not wear the crown inherited from Queen Victoria at the coronation ceremony
18 Feb 2023 12:35 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | On ‘truth’ in the Age of Internet: How Wikipedia is often wrong…
There lies one of the instant hazards of Internet biography -- one can’t tell lies about one’s age any more.
11 Feb 2023 12:54 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | The Indian mind & ‘spirituality’: Don’t forget science…
The connection is not black-and-white and perhaps just part of the prejudice of my own absolute materialistic convictions
04 Feb 2023 12:58 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Allegations in a democracy: It’s best to debate, not ban things…
In healthy democracies, allegations will be argued over. They shouldn’t be subject to a total niqab being drawn over them
28 Jan 2023 12:05 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | What Harry the ‘Spare’ is really aiming for: To stay in spotlight
Harry’s war against the British royals and the British media is conducted with the contemporary equivalent of the proxy force, the US media.
21 Jan 2023 12:56 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Racism, hatred amongst royals: Tell-all by Harry may fail to bite
Harry has given two substantial interviews to the press. Some of it is dirty linen and some of it is innocuous self-pity
14 Jan 2023 12:00 AM
Farrukh Dhondy | Revisiting the ‘Serpent’ saga: My encounters with Sobhraj
Sobhraj first got in touch with me in 1997. He rang my office at Channel Four TV, UK, where I was a commissioning editor
31 Dec 2022 12:21 AM
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Alas, President Droupadi Murmu too saw it fit to send a message on the occasion in praise of the Prime Minister
At the crux of this issue is the larger question of the national identities of the two nations and when and how they evolved.
The absence of an Indian ambassador in Doha is not merely a bureaucratic matter.
The basic issue before us is the mega-chaos, confusion and conflict in the nation’s capital due to the indigenous brand of “dyarchy”