Tuesday 8th April 2013 - The day that Margaret Thatcher passed away.  Within seconds of the announcement, Twitter and Facebook were clogged with messages and it became impossible to find a news channel that was not reporting on it (tried and failed).  

Last month was the one year anniversary of the killing of three soldiers, a father and three children in Toulouse. In honor of those who died, there were commemorations in Montauban and Toulouse, and a march on Sunday 17 March which featured a speech from the president Francois Hollande. 

A Guantánamo inmate since 2002, Shaker Aamer explains why he's joined the other detainees in a hunger strike.

The debate the world is NOT having about Guantánamo Bay: why don’t countries do more to demand the repatriation of their citizens to help close Guantánamo?

Images are courtesy of London Guantanamo Campaign

Did Beyonce really lose that much weight? What diet did Kate Hudson go on? How does Kim Kardashian's weight alter so much? These are the daily questions that are plastered across tabloids and the answers are of such high interest to today's society. 

The courts, whose primary role ought to be to defend principles of fairness, are failing when it comes to removal of citizenship from British Muslims.

On 19 March 2013, as commuters swiped their Oyster Cards and waited habitually for transport that was habitually late, the free London Evening Standard dedicated an entire page to their ‘investigatory reporter’ Tom Harper’s article entitled, ‘Hamza’s son prays for holy war in mosque videos…and backs al Qaeda terror suspect’. 

A new law has been presented last week before Parliament to deprive those having a dual nationality of their French citizenship if those individuals are “bearing arms against the French armed forces and police” and are considered as “jihadist”. 

Moazzam Begg on the death of Gadhafi, and meetings with former prisoners during his recent trip to the Libyan capital.

When Khalid Shaikh Muhammad's defence team invited me to sit in on part of their discussions last week I was honoured and excited.