Also, BAME is an absurd term! BAME is an absurd term! I thought the term BAME was absurd and inappropriate. I am glad that it is in the process of being ditched. ‘Islamists’ and ‘Islamism’ are also absurd terms! Similarly, I consider the terms ‘Islamists’ and ‘Islamism’ to also be absurd and inappropriate. Hope to […]

An incredible response to a massive terrorist bombing tragedy   Kuta Karnival parade launch (27 Sept. 2009) by Miss Indonesia 2009  A Celebration of Life The Kuta Karnival, which ran for several years, was an annual festival in October held in and around Kuta Beach. Although the event was called ‘A Celebration of Life’, its origin […]

A decree was signed by Erdogan on 10 July 2020 to ‘re-convert’ the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, following the ruling by a Turkish court to annul the decision made by Kemal’s Ataturk’s cabinet in 1935 to convert the building, which was a mosque for nearly five hundred years, since around 1453 when Constantinople was […]

First published on 7 July 2020 My first trip to Sydney, Australia, 2003 One of the boards at the Botanical Garden, providing a story of what happened  to the Aboriginal people in Australia, 2003  The first time I remember learning something about Australia was in 1973 or 1974 during a special presentation at our school […]

4 July 2020 This is the pond that I discuss in the blog  Since coming to London at the age of ten in the early 1970s, I have had no direct experience of snakes. Unlike when I was a child in Bangladesh, the several times I saw these dreaded reptiles were through glass barriers at […]