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In this file photo taken on June 5, 2012 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (C) waves from the balcony of Buckingham Palace next to (L-R) Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince William, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry at the end of a coach procession on the final ceremonial day of the Queens Diamond Jubilee in London. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Queens and Kings: Why the Brits love the royals

The hours and days to follow will tell us whether or not the royal family absorbed their emotions with dignity

10 Sep 2022 12:00 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Who’s really fit to be British? Shades of racism pop up in PM race

There may be many reasons to prefer Liz Untrussworthy to Hedgie Soon-to-go, but Rishi’s race has not been openly acknowledged as one of them

03 Sep 2022 12:05 AM

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Cosying up to Liz… To get a Cabinet job, or become a lord!

Offering my flattery to Liz Truss may at last fulfil my long-standing ambition to be a member of Britain’s House of Lords

27 Aug 2022 12:02 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | The targeting of Salman Rushdie: Shadow of the 1989 fatwa back

The 24-year-old Lebanese Muslim, Hadi Matar, has been charged with the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie

20 Aug 2022 12:00 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | When religions, cults dominate, truth a casualty & nations suffer

Religion has, throughout history, dominated the realms of politics and governance

13 Aug 2022 12:11 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | UK Labour lists all that’s wrong: Cronyism, hate & rising racism

The UK Labour Party has taken the bold step of producing a report on what’s gone wrong within its ranks

06 Aug 2022 12:24 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | Chumocracy and the media: Web of friendships fuel UK power battles

The latest British venture of the Rupert Murdoch empire has been the establishment of a TV channel called TALK TV

30 Jul 2022 1:03 AM

Conservative party leadership contender Liz Truss. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | With just 2 left in Tories’ PM race... Can Brutus be crowned Ceasar?

If you are reading this anywhere in the world apart from the UK, you will be spared the 'news' about the rivalry between these candidates

23 Jul 2022 1:31 AM

Farrukh Dhondy | If Conservatives pick ‘ethnic’ PM, will racism in Britain be less?

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

16 Jul 2022 11:55 PM

Front pages of British national newspapers, each leading with a front page story of the resignation of Boris Johnson as leader of Britain's Conservative Party, are arranged for a photograph in Downing Street, the official residence of Britain's Prime Minister, in central London on July 8, 2022. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Hedgie, Javid were boulders that broke the camel’s back…

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

08 Jul 2022 11:55 PM

Britain's Home Secretary Priti Patel. (Photo: AFP file)

Farrukh Dhondy | Will BoJo and his chamchi Clueless get me deported to Rwanda soon?

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

01 Jul 2022 11:39 PM

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

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

25 Jun 2022 7:37 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attend a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Trouble mounts for BoJo all over UK: Will Rwanda come to rescue?

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

17 Jun 2022 11:02 PM

Farrukh Dhondy | Why royalty in Britain works: Few in favour of a republic…

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

11 Jun 2022 12:13 AM

Recently, the local government of the city of Grantham in Lincolnshire, UK, spent £300,000 on a statue of Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first woman Prime Minister. (Twitter)

Farrukh Dhondy | The rewriting of history: How do toppling of statues help?

All statues commemorate some real, legendary or imagined virtue

04 Jun 2022 12:01 AM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo broke all the rules, but will stay, there’s no alternative…

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

28 May 2022 12:23 AM

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | How will history remember BoJo: ‘Churchillian’ or for UK breakup?

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

13 May 2022 11:55 PM

A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologizing to MPs for the for the "partygate" fine and making statement to MPs on the situation in Ukraine following its invasion by Russia during the first session after the on Easter Recess, at the House of Commons, in London, on April 19, 2022. (AFP)

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

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

22 Apr 2022 11:55 PM

Farrukh Dhondy | Troubles piling up for Hedgie: ‘Non-dom’ wife, Partygate fine…

There exists a perfectly legal way of evading tax on one’s income from abroad by declaring that one is a 'non-dom' -- not domiciled

15 Apr 2022 11:16 PM

Channel 4 headquarters, London (Wikipedia)

Farrukh Dhondy | Bid to ‘privatise’ UK’s Channel 4 puts free speech in some danger

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

09 Apr 2022 7:28 AM

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