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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."

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Farrukh Dhondy | Yorkshire racism row resolution shows Britain has...

I believe that British racism has changed in its manifestations and in the reaction it provokes from the establishment

20 Nov 2021 7:30 AM IST

British lawmaker Owen Paterson. (AP file photo)

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Farrukh Dhondy | It's not just the Owen scandal Spate of sleaze dogs...

Owen, has resigned his seat in Britain's House of Commons, withdrawing from the heart of a scandal that is overtaking...

13 Nov 2021 12:15 AM IST

A girl holds a draw reading Save Our World as demonstrators take part in the Fridays for Future Scotland march, during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. (AP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Is there hope for planet, or will prophets of doom...

As with Covid, humanity is in this together

6 Nov 2021 2:43 AM IST

The inquest into Amess death is yet to take place, but there is no doubt that Alis motive was Islamist terror choosing a random MP as a victim for reasons that his warped faith dictated. Representational Image. (AP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Convictions that are faith-based hard to fathom for a...

Perhaps that's a paradoxical assertion as understanding and faith are by definition opposed

31 Oct 2021 2:54 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Of property and theft' in today's Britain: The rise...

I have, in my short and happy life, been a guest at the London luxury flats, houses and the country estates of Indians...

23 Oct 2021 1:26 AM IST

The shortages, Prime Minister BoJo has already proclaimed, will force industry and haulage companies to pay higher wages which will then turn the UK into a contemporary superpower. Representational Image. (AP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Brexit's effects hit UK harder: Gig' workers bear the...

The ships' departure will lead to the imports not reaching industries and consumer goods not reaching the shelves of...

18 Oct 2021 1:08 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Why I'm happy to be a snob amid linguistic...

Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians

9 Oct 2021 12:53 AM IST

The shortage of fuel to vehicles is not the only acute crisis that Britain is suffering. (AFP Photo)

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Farrukh Dhondy | I told you so UK fuel crisis shows fears on Brexit...

No, gentle reader, the supply of fuel had not been curtailed by the oil-fields of the world being flooded by...

2 Oct 2021 1:45 AM IST

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Farrukh Dhondy | Why diversity is critical to being British

Very many institutions in Britain have adopted what they call a policy of 'diversity'

25 Sept 2021 6:51 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly defended his controversial plan to override sections of the Brexit deal that he negotiated with the European Union, arguing that the bloc has an extreme interpretation of the treaty that could jeopardize the future of the U.K. (AP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Was it cruel? Why Gavin had to go in Boris' shuffle

Gavin Williamson then supported Boris Johnson for the leadership of the party and was rewarded by BoJo with the...

18 Sept 2021 2:20 AM IST

A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobels, with new winners announced starting Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. (AP File)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Will vaccine philantrophy be deserving of a Nobel?

In 2019, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia

12 Sept 2021 2:50 AM IST

A health worker counts syringes as she prepares to inoculate traders and shopkeepers with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a vaccination camp in Ahmedabad. (Photo: AFP)

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Farrukh Dhondy | Why some still say no to jabs, forcing all into an...

I am one of the 80 per cent of people in Britain who have had at least one anti-Covid vaccination

4 Sept 2021 2:55 AM IST