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Farrukh Dhondy | Why I'm happy to be a snob amid linguistic...

Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians

9 Oct 2021 12:29 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend the weekly session of Prime Ministers Questions in Parliament in London. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has strongly defended his controversial plan to override sections of the Brexit deal that he negotiated with the European Union, arguing that the bloc has an extreme interpretation of the treaty that could jeopardize the future of the U.K. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Was it cruel? Why Gavin had to go in Boris' shuffle

Gavin Williamson then supported Boris Johnson for the leadership of the party and was rewarded by BoJo with the...

18 Sept 2021 2:01 AM IST

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (AFP Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | BoJo, Dombo & Carrie: The weird' trio at 10 Downing...

One assumed at the time that Dombo was part of all these plans and failures as he was BoJo's right-hand man

19 Jun 2021 12:40 AM IST

The ceremony on the Bank Holiday weekend had only a few family members attending amid claims that even the Prime Ministers children from his previous marriages/relationships were not invited. (AP)

Kishwar Desai | Canny Carrie's thrifty choice; a princess by any other...

Already there is talk that the Freedom Day may be shifted to July 5, so it is getting more and more difficult to plan...

7 Jun 2021 1:32 AM IST

BoJo was sanctioned for columns he wrote in the Daily Telegraph likening Muslim ladies wearing burqas to letter boxes with round tops and slits below and then to Balaclavaed bank robbers. (Jessica TAYLOR / various sources / AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Does UK have institutional racism'? The debate still...

In all the ups and downs and instances of that episode, it was never pointed out that 13 current Labour MPs are Muslims

29 May 2021 1:50 AM IST

Ms Symonds is accused, apart from crony appointments of interventions in policy areas that affect the country, decisions that very many Conservatives and people in government are convinced that BoJo would not have taken had it not been for her prevalent influence. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Is Carrie, UK's First Girlfriend, the real driver of...

It is a fact that she has packed the staff and advisory phalanx of the PM's office with her friends and people she...

8 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

Now the news that our vaccine supply may be interrupted because the new wave in India will impact vaccine exports to the UK has spread gloom. (Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | India wave hits UK's vax drive, amid adulation for...

India was headlined on the front page fortunately, in a way, it was a compliment, not a criticism

29 March 2021 4:01 AM IST

There are other ways in which BoJos government behaves in an unsurprising manner. (Photo: AFP)

BoJo facing flak over legal' graft, dodging of tax & the nanny state'

Boris Johnson govt has, because of the Covid-19 crisis, done some peculiar things for a Conservative Party to have...

27 March 2021 4:46 AM IST

Priti Patel, United Kingdom home secretary (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | How to apply for a job to home secy of Blunderland!

I guarantee Pritiji, these thoughts of yours which I have humbly attempted to put into words will get you to be PM

13 Feb 2021 12:00 AM IST

People exercise in Green Park in central London on November 8, 2020 during a second national lockdown designed to contain soaring infections of the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | London Diary

Locked down yet again, UK knows the rules but likes them less and less

9 Nov 2020 11:04 AM IST

Students hold placards as they protest outside the Department for Education in central London on August 14, 2020 to protest against the downgrading of A-level results

Farrukh Dhondy | UKâ€™s -'Fair Grades Matter-' movement, where BoJo...

What I would call the Fair Exam Grades Matter movement now took to the streets

24 Aug 2020 4:58 PM IST

Representational image (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Boris toils for a slimmer nation; will Ghislaine sing...

July 4 was our freedom day though the previous weekend, too, people broke free and thronged every beach or park they...

6 July 2020 6:48 PM IST