Section: Opinion

Uniting people of all faiths and beliefs for a better future

At the start of this year’s Inter Faith Week, religious leaders outline how to build bonds and break down barriers through friendship and social interaction

Hyphen staff
Behind the warm words, Labour will worry about a Trump presidency

Keir Starmer faces a struggle to mend his party’s relationship with the president-elect without alienating his base

Shehab Khan
In the face of destruction in Sudan, we survive through the memories of our home

A writer reflects on the diasporic experience of seeing the destruction of Sudan from afar, holding on to the memory of her grandmother’s lemon tree

Safa Himat

Labour’s first budget hits and misses for working people

Will Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s plans be bold enough to make a difference to working people who voted for urgent change?
Rachel Reeves’s first budget was historic — but the debate is eerily familiar

Labour’s first budget in nearly 15 years contained few surprises thanks to some judicious leaks. But who will win the spin war?
Why isn’t America talking about Trump’s planned Muslim ban 2.0?

In 2017, the 45th president outraged the world by blocking immigration to the US from several Muslim-majority countries. Now he wants to impose even harsher sanctions
Starmer is being tested by Trump’s charge of ‘foreign interference’

While the result of the US election hangs in the balance, so could the country's ‘special relationship’ with the UK
If I am in the business of changing minds, surely I should be open to change too

What is the action with more integrity: pushing someone out of your life for harmful beliefs, or maintaining a relationship that can offer an alternative perspective?
Labour has a chance to turn Britain around with its first budget. Here’s how

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to slash billions from welfare and public spending on 30 October. But there is another way