The London Circle

| The London Circle | 15 July 2024 Despite the magnificent advancements humanity has made in the fields of technology, medicine, research and communication, the vast majority of the world’s population find themselves buried in crisis, problems, issues and challenges on every single level. Wars, poverty, oppression, disease, injustice and social breakdown are rife, and if Gaza, Sudan, The Congo and...

| The London Circle | 06 July 2024 Gaza has changed everything, including many would argue, the state of the world media. Not only in terms of how news is gathered and broadcast but also how news is relayed and with what kind of imagery. The impact of social media which has become the choice of the majority of young people for their news and information has also contributed to the radical change t...

| The London Circle | 25 July 2024 The impact of colonialism and colonising the human mind remains in effect till this day. Rather than troops with guns, the slavery of the mind is arguably the strongest weapon in the oppressor’s armour. Professor Hatem Bazian specialises in decolonisation studies, and is therefore best placed to comment on the deep and long term impact of colonialism on the shape...

| The London Circle | 18 July 2024 While it’s good that the British Muslim community has spent a tremendous effort on organizing for the General Election, it would be entirely wrong to forget the real effort that must be spent on creating real change. There can be little argument that the effort to organise for the General Election was unprecedented, but Saghir Hussain argues that the Muslim commu...

| The London Circle | 11 July 2024 Is there any value in posing the question of whether or not peace is even attainable between Israel and Palestine in light of the past 9 months? What of the stands of the West and the Arabs, and how can the cycle of violence and injustice come to an end? Daniel Levy is a former chief negotiator for the Israeli government as well as a political advisor to former P...

| The London Circle | 03 July 2024 The issue of rights and responsibilities when it comes to RSE in UK schools seem to be an ambiguous issue, which deemed even the PM’s intervention necessary. So what are the rights of parents to oversee their children’s education and to intervene when they feel they must? It could be argued that Relationships and Sexual Education is among the top issues in every...

| The London Circle | 27 June 2024 For almost 9 months, the Pro-Palestine coalition has mobilized like it has never mobilized before. Record numbers of protestors, record numbers of events and an unprecedented benchmark for change and effect. But what next for the Left, as well as for Britain as a whole? Over 15 national protests, hundreds of local and regional events and millions of protestors wh...

| The London Circle | 20 June 2024 Whilst the world focuses on the genocide unfolding in Gaza, Kashmir continues to endure its own occupation and cultural, religious and ethnic annihilation by Indian authorities, amid indifference from its supposedly closest allies. Kashmir has been occupied by India since 1947, and despite UN resolutions and international agreements pertaining to a referendum by...

| The London Circle | 13 June 2024 A South African Jew, marries to Bangaldeshi Muslim and who grew up in the circles of the ANC before and after the collapse of the Apartheid regime, is now standing opposite the leader of Labour and the widely expected Prime Minister Kier Starmer. The parralels between Apartheid South Africa and the Zionist state of Israel could not be made clearer than by a South...

| The London Circle | 05 June 2024 Since the Gaza strip was blocked by Israel and a siege was imposed, despite the denunciation of numerous international laws, various attempts have been made to break the siege by activists from around the world, some failing and some coming close to reaching the besieged strip and its people. John Adam Turnball, a Canadian retired software engineer and activist,...

| The London Circle | 30 May 2024 The student movement condemning Israel’s genocide against Gaza is remarkable for a number of reasons, not least the high threshold set by the movement and the demand of western countries to reassess its own respective value systems and identities. Have those movements in Pakistan and Turkey matched that threshold? The student movements in both Turkey and Pakistan...

| The London Circle | 22 May 2024 With dissatisfaction with the major parties being at an all-time high, some consider the next general elections as a potentially historic spectacle, where major wins for independent candidates and small parties threaten to win big. The recent local elections displayed the scale of public frustration and dissatisfaction among the general public towards the main pol...

| The London Circle | 16 May 2024 The problem with the world right now might seem to be Gaza, but in actual goes far deeper and is far more endemic than one is led to initially believe. Whether it be ‘democracy’, ‘human rights’ or ‘international law’, unless we recognize the more serious problem, we won’t be able to fully comprehend why the world seems to be in such a mess. In the estimation of Pr...

| The London Circle | 08 May 2024 The student movement in the US is unprecedented on a number of levels, but the question remains whether this movement signifies a real and permanent change in attitudes, or whether the authorities will succeed in its crackdown and in returning matters to normalcy. Lauren Booth is a sceptic when it comes to politics, and even the massive student movement across the...

| The London Circle | 01 May 2024 All around the world, political authorities seem to be failing people, all people. Amid Gaza, many have begun to ask serious and crucial questions which somehow bring them closer to being introduced to Islam as a faith, a way of life as well as a solution to the crisis suffered by humanity.      Across social media and all over the world, people of all denominatio...

| The London Circle | 25 April 2024 With the UK General Elections taking place in the next few months, never before has the vigour for real change been greater. Whilst many have chosen to stand as candidates, driven by the apathy towards the main parties, the challenges ahead of them seem considerable.       Gaza has amplified the effects of an overall failure of traditional politics, and hence dr...

| The London Circle | 17 April 2024 Many would agree that the state of British politics is in crisis, but what options do people have, indeed what options do British Muslims have amid the Gaza genocide and spiraling Institutional Islamophobia? The state of western democracy leaves much to be desired, with extremely limited choice in the face of mounting problems on every level imaginable. However...

| The London Circle | 28 Mar 2024 It goes without saying that Gaza has exposed the hypocrisy and double standards of the international community, but to what cost? Whilst few would disagree that Gaza and the reaction of the world thereto has led to the exposition of the international community as grossly hypocritical and international law as largely ineffective, the question remains: at what cost...

| The London Circle | 20 Mar 2024 No country has to come to the fore of the world’s attention and admiration in recent times than South Africa. Its own struggle and triumph against Apartheid was historic enough, but its recent stand for Gaza and Palestine at the ICJ won it countless new friends globally. Fasiha Hassan is South Africa’s youngest parliamentarian, a lawyer and a firebrand who led stu...

| The London Circle | 21 Feb 2024 Since the Gaza began in October 2024, the mainstream media has by far deserted its long-claimed standards of professionalism, integrity and truth, in favour of a pro-Israeli narrative that has had and warns of grave risks not only to the portrayal of a serious war ongoing, but to the state of democracy itself. It is clear that the war in Gaza has had far reaching...

| The London Circle | 14 Feb 2024 Why is Israel targeting Gaza’s health sector, and deliberately demolishing hospitals, killing doctors and nurses, as well as shelling ambulances, regardless of the civilian toll? What impact does that have for the UK and what kind of future can we foresee not only for Gaza and Palestine, but for the UK and the US who both have elections to look forward to? It is c...

| The London Circle | 07 Feb 2024 With the scenes of war crimes committed against the people of Gaza, it’s almost inconceivable that a reasonable human being can be so oblivious and so uncompassionate….Until the web of interests is looked at more closely. The complex web of interests that link politicians with the business, media and the security sectors, tells of the possible reasons how so many...

| The London Circle | 31 Jan 2024 The genocide committed by Israel against Israel, which approaches its fifth month has had a significant impact on the entire world, not least on public opinion and awareness regarding the case of Palestine. The effect that Gaza has had on the entire world has been extremely significant, not least on Public Opinion, and especially that of the younger generations wh...

| The London Circle | 24 Jan 2024 As the world is focused on the genocide taking place in Gaza, Sudan enters its tenth month of a civil war that has consumed the entire country and created a crisis of significant proportions. With the Rapid Support Forces dominating the armed clash with the Sudanese Armed Forces, and overtaking vital strategic positions, news of massacres, looting, rape and gross...

| The London Circle | 17 Jan 2024 Following a genocidal campaign committed by Israel against the people of Gaza, that has claimed thousands and thousands of lives, mostly children and women, how seriously does the world hold the notion of Human Rights? Indeed, since 9-11 and the introduction of terrorism laws that have disproportionately targeted Muslims, one could claim that Human Rights is very...