Topic: Media
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Venice film festival: the movies that matter are those that refuse to look away
Our columnist picks the top films by Muslim directors at an event where cinema collides with politics
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Zahabia and Alan: intergenerational allotment keepers and flourishing TikTok stars
They found fame by posting vegetable-growing tips on social media, but friendship is the real secret to their success
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Meet the Gen Zs retelling the history of Partition
Hobbyist historians are using TikTok to explore the events of 1947 and beyond
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Sholay at 50
Ramesh Sippy’s seminal masala western is one of the most popular films of all time. Here, its writer and some of the movie’s biggest fans discuss its appeal
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My Beautiful Laundrette: restoration returns with renewed immediacy
Forty years after it was first released, Hanif Kureishi’s screenplay remains a shining beacon of British cinema
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The 2024 riots could be repeated — any time, anywhere
The demonisation of immigrants and minorities has polluted every level of our political conversation and made us all less safe
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Overseas X accounts that fuelled 2024 riots still targeting UK Muslims
Accounts such as US-based End Wokeness were identified by MPs as key players in the spread of disinformation ahead of last summer’s violence
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Telegram under fire again as ‘living room’ for far-right extremists
Analysts say online agitators who fuelled anti-immigrant riots in Spain are part of an international network exploiting the platform’s relaxed content moderation
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How ‘emotionology’ fuels the far right
One year after the worst racially motivated riots in decades, the extreme right continues to employ fear, anger and even nostalgia to stoke resentment against Muslims and immigrants
