#BrownCarGuy – News, Views & Reviews!
Let’s NOT do the Time Warp Again – cause the 1970s sucked if you were a ‘Paki’ in London. And I should know, because I was.
This about to get deeply personal. So much so that I’m not even sure I should publish this, and might well delete it shortly.
Continue reading “Does Brexit = Racial Intolerance? I pray not!”
Read about my epic road with Ford across Jordan!
It’s like he could be bro of mine – British-born 45-year-old son of Pakistani immigrants who originally migrated from India during the 47 partition and came to the UK to work hard in search of a better life for themselves and their children. And now he’s the Mayor of London!
Continue reading “British-Asian becomes London Mayor – there’s a disturbance in the Force!”
I don’t understand it but I’m on it – and much silliness is sure to ensue!
New car show that’s not Top Gear or Clarkson on Amazon! It’s us – Motoring Middle East, and we’ll be on GearOne TV in the Middle East and North Africa region from tomorrow night (UAE time 8pm).
I’m sad, and more than a little personally gutted as something of a Trekker, to concede that the utopia dreamt up by Gene Roddenberry in the Star Trek universe will never come to be. This is not because Einstein killed the Warp Drive, or because we’ll all end up as scrambled molecules after ill-advised mass Transporter experiments.
It’s simply because the easiest of all the advancements depicted in Star Trek is beyond our grasp. That of course being ‘human evolution’. I’m not referring to the disappointment of not growing an extra pair of eyes in the back of our heads, or developing telepathic abilities, nor even sporting cybernetic implants and robotic limbs.
I mean sociological, conscientious and cultural evolution.
Continue reading “The-last-sane-person-in-the-Asylum sort of day…”
I’ve got to admit, despite its massive box-office success, I was very disappointed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I won’t go into why, because enough has been written about its mediocre script, flagrant plot-holes and lack of originality by better critics than I. However I do feel that better justice could have been served to these characters and the universe Star Wars is set in, with a different, more contemporary story concept, and a great opportunity has been missed.
It is of course relatively easy to say why you don’t like something, but much, much harder to suggest what you would have done instead. So here’s my humble attempt at an alternative story concept for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Continue reading “Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Alternate Story”
I think we need to fill the world with messages of peace, respect and love right now. I just want to say I like people of all races, cultures, colours and religions – especially if they’re into cars!
I’ve only now had the chance to catch up with world events, and specifically the terrible attacks in France, and once again I feel the overwhelming burden of disgust, despair and depression – sadness for the dead, injured and their loved ones; horror that it was once again ‘us Muslims’ that carried out such heinous and cowardly acts; and sheer dread of the potential retribution against the ordinary followers of my faith, who are always left afraid and ashamed to even utter – ‘but it wasn’t us’.
007 is not everyman (or woman) and never should be
