Section: Voices
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Weekend with Omar Badawy: ‘I don’t love nature, but I do love to slowly walk around a park’
The comedian on his debut Edinburgh Fringe show, walking in circles in cities and how he hates small plates
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Reform is trying to distract from its problems by attacking ordinary people
Cuts to personal independence payments and welfare for foreign nationals are simply bad ideas — but Nigel Farage’s party only cares about one thing
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‘Years of buried pain left my body at once’: how breathwork helped me through grief
Life happens somewhere in between the millions of breaths we take, carrying us from one moment to the next, carrying everything we love and everyone we’ve lost
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Weekend with Hasan Al-Habib: ‘Comedians are busiest when everyone else is socialising’
The Brummie-Iraqi comedian on his new solo show, his favourite places to eat in Edinburgh, and how he’s in his smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel era
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The Hyphen view from Europe: football beats culture wars
Stories from Marseille and the Netherlands reveal how the political class comes unstuck when confronted with the realities of Europe’s housing crisis
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Artificial intelligence needs to be one of Burnham’s biggest priorities
The UK’s new leader will have to rise to the challenges of a rapidly changing world
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Weekend with Sasha Vadher: ‘I escaped the nine-to-five to do the 24/7’
The actor on her favourite breakfast, spending Saturday nights at the cinema, and her latest film The Model
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The simple — but life-changing — pleasure of finding your actual bra size
Going without one entirely is valid too. Like most things, the freedom to choose is paramount. None of it should be compulsory, just as none of it should cause pain
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Weekend with Youssef Kerkour: ‘By nature I’m a night owl’
The Bafta-nominated actor on being a homebody, a perfect Saturday watching TV with his family, and why he’s a fan of the Imax
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Why Burnham could end up fighting the same battles as Starmer
The former Greater Manchester mayor has been styled as an insurgent, but some Labour MPs fear it could be business as usual










