Section: Voices
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Atoosa Sepehr Q&A: ‘Food is a form of healing’
The bestselling author of From a Persian Kitchen on taking chances and seeing her life story on the stage
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Starmer looks to Italy for a migration solution — but the answer lies closer to home
Following Giorgia Meloni’s lead on dealing with migration will only result in more people dying. There is a far more humane answer
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Labour is learning the hard way that governing is nothing like being in opposition
Keir Starmer’s attempts to sweep away dissent over winter fuel payments, high-value donations and Gaza haven’t worked
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No matter how it looks from the outside, one’s professional life is as fragile as a house of cards
If we are going to continue to create, we have to find other ways of valuing our art in a world that constantly delegitimises it
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Rizwana Hamid Q&A: ‘In a small way every journalist has the power to make a difference’
The director of the Centre for Media Monitoring on the new challenges facing Muslim journalists and audiences today
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Why we need to talk about class
Beating an emboldened far right means building bridges and having some difficult conversations
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Even some Labour MPs say Starmer’s free glasses aren’t a good look
Prime minister’s gifts from Waheed Alli are causing disquiet among a party that prided itself on being different from the Tories
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Naqqash Khalid Q&A: ‘The history of the camera is deeply colonial’
The In Camera director on racial identity, experimental film-making and confronting the imperial legacy of cinema
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No one warned me how lonely motherhood can be
Why do I feel so devastatingly isolated as I sit with my toddler on my lap and embrace him?
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We’ve not heard the last of Labour’s anti-austerity rebels
Dozens of Keir Starmer’s MPs abstained on a vote to scrap winter fuel payments for pensioners, exposing a rift in the party
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Growing up, I was often asked if I was a ‘half Muslim’
Being from a multifaith family can sound idyllic from the outside, but it wasn’t always a fairytale of tolerance and inclusion










