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First year law student and erstwhile leader of the proletariat (North Britain) Tommy Sheridan has got lots of swotting up to do this year.
Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing…
Homework?
Nah. Real life.
Former Scottish Socialist politician and Celebrity Big Brother contestant Tommy Sheridan and his wife Gail are to stand trial on perjury charges.
The charges relate to evidence [...]

Guest post by DaveM
Television is the single most effective way to learn any language. If you want to learn Arabic, it’s is an absolute necessity. It removes you from the whole “let’s pretend” artificial environment of the classroom.
More important you’re able to follow the real debates and issues, as opposed to the sanitised stuff said [...]

This is a guest post by Alex Stein of falsedichotomies.com
I hope that those who were so interested regarding the timing of Operation Cast Lead will be asking equally critical questions about today’s absurd attack by Hamas (or its subsidiaries). A bomb attack was launched on an Israeli patrol along the Israeli/Gaza border; one soldier was killed [...]

Here is a police officer’s account of his experience policing the STWC’s Gaza March:
As usual we had been told that our role was to facilitate the lawful demonstration and that we were effectively ‘community Policing’ unless the situation changed and things became violent. Crucially, we were told that despite the fact that nearly every march relating [...]

Geert Wilders is a Dutch politician who has moved in a very few years from a liberal to an anti-immigration position, that has brought him close to the neo Nazi party, Vlaams Belang. He is facing prosecution in the Netherlands, in connection with his film “Fitna”. (If you’d like to read and view a critique [...]

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This is Friends of the Earth Middle East:
Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) is a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists. Our primary objective is the promotion [...]

Sad news from the Tabs:
The Chairman of the Law Faculty issued a statement to Cambridge Gaza Solidarity in person at 11:30am. The validity of the statement was agreed to by senior members of the university. The terms of the statement are as follows:
1. That we are disrupting academic life.
2. That since bringing food into the [...]

President Barack Obama reached out to Iran, put the Middle East at the centre of his agenda, but reminded the world that Israel’s “security is paramount” in an interview with Dubai broadcaster al-Arabiya – his first with a foreign network.
Al-Arabiya is one of the biggest networks in the Arab world and Obama used the interview [...]

I’ve just had some of the great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!
(With thanks to PlumStupid for reminding me)

This is a guest post by Ibn al-Waleed
In the last year the Scottish Islamic Foundation has made great strides towards becoming the Scottish version of the Muslim Council of Britain – albeit inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood rather than Jamaat-e-Islami.
Osama Saeed, the SIF’s founder, has so far persuaded the Scottish National Party to give the [...]