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Trust and Accountability

The author quotes Faisal Naqvi’s column on trust and accountability after Sabeen Mahmud’s murder, and adds that the army’s opaque ‘rule by agencies’ is its most harmful gift to Pakistan.

Brown Pundits Archive1 May 20150 comments
Middle East Musings on New Pundits

The author points readers to three of his recent posts elsewhere on Middle East geopolitics, arguing Iran’s return to preeminence and that Turkey is the real counterweight to Iran.

Brown Pundits Archive15 April 20150 comments
Arab-Pakistani Security Cooperation

Hamid Hussain reviews the long history of Pakistan’s security cooperation with Arab states, from 1970s and 80s army and air force deputations to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and others, warning…

Brown Pundits Archive8 April 20150 comments
Slouching Towards Mecca?

The author quotes the closing paragraph of Mark Lilla’s review of Houellebecq’s Submission, which reads the novel as being about France’s lost sense of self rather than immigration, and adds…

Brown Pundits Archive25 March 20150 comments
Empower women; let them marry out of their clan & race

The author excerpts an article arguing that black women should follow Asian women in marrying outside their race at higher rates, citing regional intermarriage figures and the claim that both…

Brown Pundits Archive20 March 20150 comments
New Pundits- Asians can never be upper-class?

Announcing a new blog, New Pundits, the author recalls a dinner remark that London is becoming so Asian that social segregation is entrenched, with prime-age groups rarely mixed, and notes…

Brown Pundits Archive17 March 20150 comments
This is a rape culture

The author questions the ‘rape culture’ vocabulary of social justice activists, arguing that a focus on elite college campuses fixes on a less at-risk, more privileged group, and that the…

Brown Pundits Archive4 March 20150 comments
Islam, ISIS and the Dream of the Blue Flower

Responding to Graeme Wood’s Atlantic argument that the Islamic State is Islamic, the author says it does not smear Muslims but notes ISIS acts have support in classical texts, then…

BP Admin Team · opened by Brown Pundits Archive2 March 20150 comments
Sometimes the Bible just gets it right

The author posts his favourite Bible chapter, Ecclesiastes 3, ‘To every thing there is a season’, quoted in full.

Brown Pundits Archive27 February 20150 comments
Another Angry Voice on Podemos

The author passes on a short Another Angry Voice piece on Spain’s Podemos and its leader Pablo Iglesias, explaining how it grew out of the 15-M protests, with brief doubts…

Brown Pundits Archive27 February 20150 comments