Section: Voices
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The AfD is winning because of its radicalism, not despite it
Germany’s far-right party secured a historic victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday. Mohamed Amjahid says its success came from turning embedded prejudice into votes
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Weekend with Kas Ahmed: ‘I wake up to a three-year-old hitting me in the face with a book’
The TV doctor on becoming a countryside boy, making daal nachos and life after The Traitors
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The Hyphen View from Europe: from out of office to out of capacity
Europe tried to take the month of August off — as it has always done. The climate, war and institutional crises had other plans
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Weekend with Dina Macki: ‘Sometimes I’ll wake up and really crave a can of tuna’
The Omani-British chef on her unusual breakfast choices, games nights with friends and her favourite restaurants
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The climate crisis is a burning issue for UK workers
From hospitals to the gig economy, urgent action is needed to protect people who are simply trying to safely earn a living
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My friendships thrive on the shared guilty pleasure of watching and reading bad works of fiction
Pursuing one-star reviews is an unappreciated art form that my friends and I have perfected
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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










