If you are to believe the BBC then Reform is a government in waiting with Nigel Farage, the next Prime Minister. The mainstream media is at pains to sell Reform’s rise as the end of the two party system and Nigel Farage as an anti-Westminster, anti-establishment leader. However, as thinking and aware Muslims, it is important to analyse the local election results separating the hyperbole from facts on the ground. It must be emphasized that Muslims can not be complacent about the threat from Reform. We need to however focus on community based actions that directly address the causes of…
Author: Editorial Team
On the 1st May 2026, two months into the US-Israel war against Iran, UAE exited OPEC after nearly 60 years of membership. What lies behind UAE’s move According to analysts, the UAE has been preparing to leave OPEC for some time. As part of its strategic autonomy policy, the UAE has spent billions of dollars increasing oil capacity to nearly 5mn barrels a day. Such investments do not chime with OPECs dictate of production quotas of 3-3.5 mn even though it has turned a blind eye to the UAE consistently exceeding its quotas, perhaps thinking that this will keep it…
We were told that God was a myth, that religion was a “virus of the mind”, and that science was the only lens through which we should view reality. For decades, Richard Dawkins was the high priest of this movement. But recently, something strange happened. Dawkins spent three days talking to an AI named Claude, nicknamed it “Claudia,” and walked away convinced it was conscious. The man who spent his life arguing that humans are just ‘biological survival machines’ is now convinced that a line of code is capable of genuine conscious experience. This isn’t a tech breakthrough; it’s the…
The US-Israel war against Iran has had a significant impact on world oil trade. The attacks on oil facilities in the Gulf and Iran and the closures of the Strait of Hormuz, a key transit route for around 20% of global oil trade, has restricted shipments and pushed up oil prices on global markets. The price of natural gas has followed suit. There have been knock-on direct effects on the cost of sea transportation, fertiliser supplies and prices. These will be passed on to food prices, in the first instance and then food supplies, depending on the length of the…
You have been watching the news. You have seen the missiles, the fires, the statements from Iranians and President Trump. What you are probably not being told is what this war actually confirms. Not about Iran or Israel in isolation, but about the Middle East strategic reality. Strip away the noise and three fundamental illusions collapse. 1. For Iran, Gaza Was Never the Point For two years, Gaza burned. Hospitals were bombed. Children were starved. An entire population was systematically destroyed in the most documented genocide in human history. And Iran, the self-declared champion of Islamic resistance, the state whose…
On 3 March 1924, the Shield of the Muslims was shatered. Abdulmecid II, the last Khalifah, was given a few hours notice and expelled from Istanbul by dawn. He left with a single suitcase. Just like that, an institution that had existed in one form or another for over 1,300 years was erased by a stroke of a pen. What was lost was not just a title or a symbolic figurehead. The Khilafah was the political authority of the Muslim world, the institution responsible for implementing Islamic law, protecting Muslim lands, and representing the Ummah as a unified body on…
On 20 March 2026, the servers kept humming, the subscriptions kept charging, and the 20% cuts kept flowing. But Leonid Radvinsky was gone. By every metric the modern world uses to measure a successful life, he had it all. Billions in the bank. A platform with 305 million users. He was, by the world’s standards, winning. Then he died. The Machine He Built OnlyFans did not invent the exploitation of women. Capitalism had been doing that for centuries. But Radvinsky industrialised it. Under his ownership from 2018, the platform pivoted hard into pornography and became a global marketplace for explicit content.…
Right now, Pakistani and Afghan soldiers are killing each other. Pakistani airstrikes have hit targets inside Afghanistan. Afghanistan has launched military operations along the border. Pakistan’s own Defence Minister stood before cameras and declared the two countries are in open war. Dozens dead on both sides. Civilians among the casualties. Two Muslim-majority nations. Both claiming Islam as central to their identity. Bombing each other. If that does not trouble you, it should. What Is Happening Pakistan has suffered a wave of attacks from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an armed group operating from Afghan soil. Pakistan launched airstrikes targeting TTP leadership…
Let’s be honest about what the Munich Security Conference actually is. Every February, the world’s most powerful governments fly their ministers and generals into a Bavarian hotel to sort out the planet’s problems. Sounds reasonable, right? Except the problems they’re solving are usually the ones they created, and the solutions almost always benefit the same people. Funny how that works. The Munich Security Conference isn’t some neutral forum for humanity to hash out its differences. It’s a Western institution, funded and shaped by Western interests, where the agenda is set long before anyone arrives. Ukraine gets discussed. Indo-Pacific tensions get…
There is a man standing in front of a crowd, voice cracking with the weight of what he is saying. He is not a politician. He is not an imam. He is not even a Muslim. He is Pep Guardiola, a Spanish football manager worth hundreds of millions, someone who had every professional incentive to stay quiet. And yet, there he is. Speaking out. Now picture another man. A Muslim. A man whose prostration after scoring has become one of football’s most iconic images. A man whose religion is not a background detail but his entire public identity. A man…