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In his words: "I am just a professional writer, which means I don't do blogs and try and get money for whatever I write."
    British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak (Photo- AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | If Conservatives pick ethnic' PM, will racism in...

    Gentle reader, it seemed and even now is quite possible that one of these ethnic candidates will be the next Prime...

    16 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

    Front pages of British national newspapers, each leading with a front page story of the resignation of Boris Johnson as leader of Britains Conservative Party, are arranged for a photograph in Downing Street, the official residence of Britains Prime Minister, in central London on July 8, 2022. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Hedgie, Javid were boulders that broke the camel's...

    BoJo's premiership has been riddled with scandal and what one can only call slack leadership

    8 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

    Britains home secretary Priti Patel attends a remote press conference to update the nation on the COVID-19 pandemic. (AFP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Will BoJo and his chamchi Clueless get me deported to...

    The irony, gentle readers, is devastating and one would cry if one didn't laugh

    1 July 2022 11:39 PM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Should we stop reading writers whose views are truly...

    Religious and regional rivalries, breeding even genocidal prejudice, have bedevilled history

    25 Jun 2022 7:37 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Trouble mounts for BoJo all over UK: Will Rwanda come...

    Today the British government claims that Rwanda is the safest, most progressive, internationally engaged country in...

    17 Jun 2022 11:02 PM IST

    Queen Elizabeth II (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Why royalty in Britain works: Few in favour of a...

    In the last week, for three officially designated days, Britain celebrated the Queen's Platinum Jubilee

    11 Jun 2022 12:13 AM IST

    Recently, the local government of the city of Grantham in Lincolnshire, UK, spent £300,000 on a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britains first woman Prime Minister. (Twitter)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | The rewriting of history: How do toppling of statues...

    All statues commemorate some real, legendary or imagined virtue

    4 Jun 2022 12:01 AM IST

    British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo broke all the rules, but will stay, there's no...

    Perhaps the Sue Gray report should be labelled 'fifty shades of shame'

    28 May 2022 12:23 AM IST

    Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | How will history remember BoJo: Churchillian' or for...

    BoJo fancies himself as a second Winston Churchill with constant posturing about defying Vladimir Putin as Churchill did...

    13 May 2022 11:55 PM IST

    Farrukh Dhondy | Did BoJo lie? I have a dream of what may be coming next!Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Did BoJo lie? I have a dream of what may be coming...

    The breaking of the law by defying it and partying when it was forbidden will be retrospectively made a criminal offence

    22 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

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    Farrukh Dhondy | Troubles piling up for Hedgie: Non-dom' wife,...

    There exists a perfectly legal way of evading tax on one's income from abroad by declaring that one is a 'non-dom' --...

    15 April 2022 11:16 PM IST

    Channel 4 headquarters, London (Wikipedia)Opinion
    Farrukh Dhondy | Bid to privatise' UK's Channel 4 puts free speech in...

    Channel 4 avidly and rapidly established itself as the voice of critical, even impertinent, free speech

    9 April 2022 7:28 AM IST

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