Section: Politics

What you need to know about Zack Polanski’s Urdu video

The Green leader has been attacked for campaigning in a language that isn’t English. But multilingual political adverts have a long history in the UK

Saman Javed
Mosque denied security cash under new Home Office rules after waiting years

MPs blast ‘vague’, ‘opaque’ process as mosques get turned down for security funding just hours after new code of conduct published

Saman Javed
Government dashes social housing hopes by ruling out mandatory targets

Andy Burnham’s government accused of ‘caving to developers’ in response to National Planning Policy Framework consultation

Lucas Cumiskey

Meet the Muslim mayor who wants to be France’s next president

Karim Bouamrane says six years governing Saint-Ouen have convinced him that France's political class has mistaken social problems for identity issues
What happened when the far right governed the Netherlands?

Geert Wilders’ party promised the toughest asylum regime ever and blamed migrants for the housing crisis. The government collapsed within a year — but its politics did not disappear
‘Unclear’ on Gaza but liked by local Muslims: the Hyphen guide to Andy Burnham

Here’s what we know about the Labour leadership hopeful and his positions on domestic and foreign affairs
Burnham could get mosque security funding devolved

Greater Manchester Combined Authority is in discussions with the Home Office about taking control of the ‘protective security’ scheme
Muslims in Havering fear for their future after neighbours back Reform

The east London borough is home to 16,000 Muslims — and is now controlled by Nigel Farage’s party, which has made its feelings about Islam clear
Mosques could lose security funding if they ‘undermine’ government online

Faith leaders and politicians have warned that the move, set out in a new code of conduct, could stifle free speech and endanger communities