Looking for your next romantic read? 💕 From enemies-to-lovers to heartwarming slow burns, @thediyora.bsky.social rounds up the best romance novels by Muslim authors you should have on your shelf. hyphenonline.com/2025/09/22/b...

all signs point to this being just an incredibly destabilizing moment. very very bad stuff. we're in a very dark place.

Excellent response from Hasan Piker, who was scheduled to debate Charlie Kirk in two weeks. On his stream he said: “The reverberation of people seeking out vengeance in the aftermath of this violent, abhorrent incident is going to be genuinely worrisome.” Also talked about his own vulnerability

Killing the other side's negotiating team (multiple times!) should make it pretty clear the Israeli Government does not want a negotiated peace in Gaza. Netanyahu wants an end to Palestinian statehood as a possibility. This is becoming abundantly clear to everyone, except it seems, our leaders.

From the bustling markets of central Asia to gripping tales from the streets of Karachi, @thediyora.bsky.social rounds up the best books to read if you’re looking for escapism and adventure. Read more⬇️ hyphenonline.com/2025/08/06/b...

A rare bit of good news! I don't know Alec, but was really worried about him!

This is not caused primarily by "screen time". It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

RE the allotment outcry, my understanding is that the allotment story been blown out of proportion? In the sense that what Angela Rayner has done is not new, has been done since 2016, but is being reported as something that’s brand new under this gov?

Fun fact: we devote ten times more space to golf courses in England than we do to allotments (source: OS Greenspace data) www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan... bsky.app/profile/josi...

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

bumping this as a few things have fallen through and i'm not doing great financially. open to any sort of freelance opps across culture journalism!

Stuck for summer reads? Here are five books, from moving coming-of-age stories to political fiction, to accompany you on your holidays. Check out the recommendations by Diyora Shadijanova👇🏽 hyphenonline.com/2025/07/08/b...

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

🚨BREAKING NEWS:arrests at Turo Cathedral The Terrorism Act does not conform to international law. The UN Human Rights Committee said the definition of terrorism is “unduly restrictive of political expression”. In times of destruction & genocide, the courage to act is a right & moral responsibility.

I’m planting something new, and I’d love for you to grow it with me. Introducing *Lessons From My Garden* - a new newsletter about the unexpected lessons nature is teaching me about the environment and myself too.

Spot on @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, jokes with violent intent are never really "jokes" are they?

still very confused about what Greg Wallace's autism diagnosis has to do with anything

What happens when your childhood home becomes just a memory? In a personal essay, Diyora Shadijanova reflects on childhood in a Soviet-era apartment block in Uzbekistan — and the emotional complexity of returning two decades later. Illo: Kristina Tzekova hyphenonline.com/2025/07/07/i...

With the unseasonably hot weather we’ve been experiencing (every year), it feels timely to kick my @hyphenonline.com books column off with five compelling reads on the climate crisis.

Every mainstream Democrat who is hanging back on endorsing Mamdani is responsible for emboldening these absolute fascists

ty Mamdani for reminding us what hope feels like again 😭

a reminder of what Mamdani overcame:

the decision to brand a non-violent group of pro-Palestinian activists, "terrorists", while Israel commits actual war crimes is both deeply insulting and bleak a very dark day for British democracy

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

So let me get this straight, as someone quickly learning about Israel–Iran relations: Israel, which has nuclear weapons, is bombing Iran, a country that doesn’t have them… in order to make sure it never gets them? ???

I’m glad that the Winter Fuel payment threshold has moved up to £35,000 for pensioners, but hang on… what about working people who are earning under £35,000? and who probably don’t own houses and spend the majority of their income on rent? 🥴

It's such a mistake to challenge Reform's policies purely on financial terms. The comms should focus on the crux of the issue -- Reform is a xenophobic party with a hodgepodge offering of policies aimed to lure disenfranchised voters, policies they will abandon bc they are deeply anti-worker.

Deeply menacing vibes here

Lineker has consistently supported minorities, he got in trouble for comparing the Tories' language on immigration to language used by Nazis two years ago! He apologised profusely for the Zionism post and swears he'd “never knowingly share anything antisemitic”. But that's not enough for the BBC.

Someone has finally been held accountable for the war in Gaza, and it's Gary Lineker www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Longer working hours have been linked to higher emissions, yet the climate movement seems reluctant to join the campaign for a four-day week—a potential strategic error given the social, health and climate benefits of working less. My latest for Sower ⬇️🧪.

A note to book PRs: I'm now writing a books column for @hyphenonline.com, so please email me about anything you're really excited about — especially if it's by Muslim authors. My email is in my bio. #journorequest #journorequests

No matter what you do, the far right will always want the next cruelty, and their torch-bearers in the press will attack you for not delivering it. All while priming voters to conceive of far right concerns as newly moderate. Again, this has happened in every single place this has ever been tried.

this is not an exaggeration

Morning, I've written something on living with and managing chronic pain as a young person:

I’m throwing a panel and a party with @isseymg.bsky.social and No Music On A Dead Planet next Friday 9 May in London. 🎤🪩 There are limited spots available for the panel talk – grab yours before they’re gone at the link: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/213...

that's 41k a month in 2010 money!!!

are people playing music and videos in public transport annoying? yes. should this be policed and fined? absolutely not! what has happened to politely asking someone to turn the volume down, and thus make them aware of their actions? or transport companies running campaigns to tackle the issue?

Wow, "gender critical activists" now shifting their focus to xenophobia?! I had no idea this was going to happen!

Asked if Keir Starmer still believes that a trans woman is a woman, his spokesman replies "no". Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms

Until we, ie society, start offering farmers and other landowners the possibility of decent livelihoods through rewilding + High Nature Value farming, the haemorrhage of nature WILL NOT STOP

it's frustrating seeing every major outlet try to rationalise the orange man's tariffs with economic analysis instead of explaining how he is simply trying to destroy democracy through them.

2/ This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.

I'd love to know what planet these parents are on:

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

You absolutely should self censor, if the thing you are censoring yourself from saying is hate speech

Every time Labour makes it harder for people to access benefits, education, healthcare, food, energy - the far-right can capitalise on scarcity narratives. This is what we mean when they say that the riots of August were not taken seriously at a policy level. It's not rocket science.

For the fifth anniversary of the Covid-19 lockdown, I wrote a reported feature for @hyphenonline.com on what happened to key workers once the clapping stopped.

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth