Topic: England

Darbar Festival celebrates 20 years bringing Indian classical music to the UK

This year’s event at London’s Barbican Centre highlights the healing elements of the ancient tradition alongside shows from pioneering artists

Ammar Kalia
Somali Week 2025 is telling real stories on their own terms

From a theatrical premiere to film, literature and family days, the annual event continues to break new cultural ground

Aisha Rimi
Can the Greens and Your Party take Labour’s remaining Muslim vote?

With Green membership surging under Polanski, and Corbyn and Sultana seemingly having buried the hatchet, hesitant Labour backers have new choices

Saman Javed

Daddies and Diapers are building a new community for young fathers

Opening up about their role as parents and spreading a message of positivity, these four friends are winning fans across social media
Afghan food is revolutionising Manchester’s culinary scene

From standout rice dishes to fragrant stews and crispy stuffed flatbreads, the flavours of Kabul and beyond have found a new northern home
We should parent with kindness, not violence

Organisations are calling for an all-out ban on smacking children, which is still legal in England despite being outlawed in Scotland and Wales
Tory MPs are split: is the party too close to Reform?

Conservatives under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership are itchy as a modest conference and disastrous polling highlight just how far the party has fallen
Inquest finds Black Muslim woman died after missed opportunities in care

Ayaan Ali Waeys died of natural causes, coroner concludes, but says medics had chances to ‘change course of events’
‘I don’t know them — they just come’: strangers unite to defend town’s mosque

Plans to build an Islamic centre in Dalton-in-Furness have attracted the ire of Ukip leader Nick Tenconi. But neighbours are having none of it