Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Can’t see a Burham challenge to Starmer being possible. It’s too complicated. What’s he going to do? Be mayor and mp at the same time or cause an expensive mayoral byelection? Given how Labour are polling would he win a byelection?

Great interview about a fascinating council by Harry Clarke-Ezzidio:

Today's announcement about a statutory definition of "honour" violence is good news for campaigners – but govt hasn't been able to say whether it intends to adopt the definition that groups like @karmanirvana.bsky.social have been working on with survivors and families, or produce its own.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a biography of De Valera? @alexvont.bsky.social?

A new generation of teenage Muslim swimming coaches in south Wales could be helping to turn the tide on the sport’s lack of inclusivity. @sajeraj.bsky.social reports. hyphenonline.com/2025/08/21/m...

"Whereas councils used to adopt new estates, the CMA has found that 80% of new homes built by the 11 largest developers in 2021-22 were sold under the fleecehold system, with £260m in estate management charges paid out in 2022 alone"

The Lantern Initiative began 10 years ago with coffee mornings for Muslim mothers & now organises women-only, half-day events across the UK. @sajeraj.bsky.social hears how the organisation draws on centuries-old Islamic psychology to support Muslims’ mental health. hyphenonline.com/2025/07/18/l...

It's a poorly conceived way to deal with 'serial rebels at the outer end of your majority' to take away the whip, and a still more poorly conceived way to do it that it comes as a complete surprise to your MPs.

The @muslimcouncil.bsky.social is among faith groups in the UK that have urged the government to consider extending mandatory pay gap reporting to include data on religion. @sajeraj.bsky.social has more⬇️ hyphenonline.com/2025/07/11/m...

Terrific thread by Jonathan this. Since I was born, the area I grew up in has higher employment, has got older, has got healthier, became more likely to be in the private rented sector, got less religious, got less white. There is no non-bigoted reason to think the last of those is problematic.

Pleased to be part of the team that put together this @greenparty.org.uk leadership debate between @adrianramsay.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”. www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

BCG took on a multi-million dollar contract to help launch the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, at whose aid hubs more than 500 Palestinians have been killed since late May, the FT reports. BCG's work included modelling the mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of “relocating” Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch an aid scheme for the shattered enclave, a Financial Times investigation has found. - by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

🔴 One year on from the general election that saw Muslim voters turn away from Labour, has the party made any progress in winning back what was once one of its most reliable support bases? That's the question @sajeraj.bsky.social set out to answer for @hyphenonline.com.

Israeli military used 500lb bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The Israeli army has been killing dozens of Palestinians at aid hubs in Gaza practically on a daily basis. Soldiers have told Haaretz they have been ordered to fire at crowds “even though it was clear they posed no threat” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

🚨New research from Equi estimates that 5,500 UK Muslim children are in kinship care — more than the number in the official care system. As a result, Muslim kinship practices could be saving the government £223m a year. ✍🏻 @weronikas.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/06/26/m...

Conditions of Living, which I contributed to has been short-listed for the Photo-Text Book Award in the Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards! Congrats to Anthony Luvera and the rest of the team: www.rencontres-arles.com/en/les-prix-...

Telegraph withdraws banker school fees story after being deceived by source pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

Winston Churchill would fail this definition of “white British”

The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

My report with colleague Lorenzo Todo on what happened at the Gaza aid distribution centre that led to the deaths of 4 Palestinians - I found that the aid centre was inside an area marked for evacuation by the IDF as late as Sunday #Israel #Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

“He lived a full life, fought a good fight.” RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Muslims are three times less likely to become judges and coroners in England and Wales than members of other faiths, according to research by @ucl.ac.uk, amid warnings that a lack of diversity could weaken public trust in the judiciary. ✍🏽 @sajeraj.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/05/27/m...

Planned spending on mental health services is expected to be £15.6bn in the current financial year, but the Royal College of Psychiatrists says that should be closer to £36bn to achieve parity of esteem and meet the needs of people with mental health conditions. www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/he...

A 40-hour workweek at the legal minimum wage of £12.21 an hour is the equivalent of a £25,400 salary. Journalism employers trying to hire managerial staff below minimum wage need to learn how to do very basic maths.

More than half of English councils that responded to our questions didn’t greenlight a *single* home for social rent during Labour’s first six months in office. Was your council among them? ⬇️🧵

In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I'm celebrating pavement plants and a #Hitchin speciality with my friends in Happy... #countrydiary #naturewriting

It's Hackney History Festival this Saturday, and Sheela Banerjee and I would love to see you there! We'll be sharing personal stories of migration and histories of empire and race. Our talk is just £3! Sat 10, 3pm, Round Chapel. @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn...

The question media should be asking after the local elections is how to fund better coverage of local councils and local politics.

@generationrent.bsky.social and @rentersreformco.bsky.social have been campaigning against it. So have landlords. Next week, Labour peer Ruth Lister is expected to bring an amendment to the Renters' Rights Bill to scrap right to rent for good. Full story from @sajeraj.bsky.social 👇

I've met and worked with so many people who were effectively given the "choice" of leave on your own, or we will remove you and it will be even worse. Removing people to Afghanistan can be a death sentence. No-one should be sent to that. hyphenonline.com/2025/04/24/f...

🔴A Tory candidate hoping to win in Harrogate next week was once expelled for pushing anti-immigration leaflets — and chaired a group that hosted Enoch Powell. ✍🏻@lucascumiskey.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/04/25/a...

🍳 Exclusive: Almost 80 schools named just months ago as trailblazers for Labour’s flagship free breakfast clubs have dropped out, with many saying the funding is inadequate schoolsweek.co.uk/79-schools-w...

My partner and I once ordered at a restaurant and were informed we’d have to move to a bigger table…

The UK continued to deport foreign national offenders to Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover in 2021, including someone who got a sentence of less than six months. My story for @hyphenonline.com hyphenonline.com/2025/04/24/f...

Women and ethnic minority journalists exit journalism early in the UK, and may experience less job satisfaction, according to new UK journalism report, qu'elle surprise. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

@danielsohege.bsky.social can you give me a follow back so I can DM about something I'm working on? Thanks!

New from me: I've spent the last 6 months compiling a map of data centres, whose locations are generally secret, operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas. www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...

My bag. And I had to wait until the end of the northern line (Edgware). The horror.

The great cheese heist had succeeded.

We now have greater clarity vis POTUS new tariffs re: the Western Balkans. Serbia 37%, Bosnia 35%, North Macedonia 33%, Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo each 10%. Interesting that Serbia, which invested most in relationship with Trump World, receives worst treatment.

Minimum wage for a 9-5 full time job (40 hours a week) is, as of today, £25,396 a year for anyone over 21. Which is why it's amazing to see journalism jobs requiring a degree, job experience, and driving licence advertised at a "competitive salary" of £22,380. tindlenews.co.uk/careers/jour...

The Ramadan economy is growing faster than the UK economy as a whole, which is why think tank Equi are calling for the government to support home-grown Muslim and Muslim-friendly businesses: hyphenonline.com/2025/03/31/r...

Our latest work on Gaza was produced in collaboration with multiple organisations, including ARIJ, Forbidden Stories, ZDF, and Zeit. Here's a thread of their articles based on the investigation.

I would watch at least five seasons of this show

🔎 Exclusive: A government probe into the Civil Service Muslim Network found it had 'no case to answer', @hyphenonline.com can reveal It was suspended last year and slammed by then deputy PM Oliver Dowden over pro-Palestine lobbying claims hyphenonline.com/2025/03/26/c...