http://blog.muradqureshi.com Blog of Murad Qureshi, Labour member of the London Assembly Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:00:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night’s landslide victory for President Barack Hussein Obama was not only a victory for people of colour but also for people with foreign-sounding names. Obama had faced ugly innuendos from some Republican campaigners who used his middle name to associate him with Islam – as if that automatically disqualified him ... http://blog.muradqureshi.com/2008/11/barack-hussein-obama-victory/ While all the focus in recent times has been on financial markets and bailing them out, at City Hall on the 23rd of October I chaired a meeting of the London Markets Symposium, looking at the future for London's street and wholesale markets. We had over 200 attendees and the newly ... http://blog.muradqureshi.com/2008/10/londons-real-markets/ China Daily has published my article "Time for congestion charging in Beijing?" You can also join in the discussion at China Dialogue. http://blog.muradqureshi.com/2008/10/more-on-congestion-charging-in-beijing/ Having leafleted against the British National Party with Unite Against Fascism during the recent by-election campaign in Hampstead Town, I was pleased to see that the BNP candidate received a derisory 29 votes, a mere 1% of the poll. You might have thought that after this humiliation the BNP would ... http://blog.muradqureshi.com/2008/10/dont-be-fooled-bnp-is-still-racist-and-fascist/ One principle Boris Johnson has consistently applied since his election as mayor last May has been to keep interviews with the media to a minimum. Anyone who witnessed his inept performance on the Politics Show on Sunday (YouTube video here), as he tried to bluff his way through pointed questions ... http://blog.muradqureshi.com/2008/10/blustering-boris/