Section: News
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‘It causes us so much suffering’: are attitudes finally changing around period shame?
Many menstruating women grow up in households where periods are still seen as shameful. But a new generation is pushing back against the stigma
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Tax hikes and poor public services — the UK’s economic future looks bleak
Experts warn of anaemic growth and funding gaps to services. Yet neither Labour nor the Conservatives are willing to be honest about raising taxes
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The rising cost of Ramadan
Over the past two years, food prices have gone up rapidly. We look into how this will affect British Muslims during the holy month
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‘Overwhelming’ bias revealed in new report on UK media’s coverage of Israel-Palestine conflict
Researchers at the Centre for Media Monitoring analysed more than 200,000 news items in the month following 7 October and found coverage to be ‘disproportionately biased towards a pro-Israeli framing and narrative’
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NGOs call for the closure of ‘inhumane and degrading’ refugee camp on Greek island
Just two years after the hi-tech facility opened on Samos – at a cost of €43m to the EU – residents complain of lengthy water cuts, poor hygiene and police brutality
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‘I’m not interested in destroying institutions, I want to change them’
The founder of a London-based arts and education charity has spent nearly a decade helping inner city Black and Asian students to broaden their horizons
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‘There was a sense that nothing and no one was going to protect us besides us’
Four years after the Hanau terrorist attacks, the victims’ families reflect on Germany’s Islamophobia problem
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The German far right wants to ‘return’ migrants
Millions of Muslim migrants living in Germany have been thrown into anxious uncertainty by a proposal to ‘remigrate’ people who have failed to integrate
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Pakistan’s crackdown on Imran Khan’s party reaches Britain
As the country’s powerful military intensifies its campaign to dismantle PTI, British Pakistanis share how they have been affected
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‘Sending money to family abroad is an obligation, but sometimes it makes me angry’
Around the world, a billion people pay or receive remittances. But now a younger generation is questioning the practice
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Greek students are being schooled in Islamophobia, experts warn
Nearly six in 10 Greeks admit to feeling hostile towards Muslims. Academics and pupils say this can only be changed in the classroom
