I just got a phone call about someone delivering a new oven and the gay anxiety about casually saying to someone (for instance) 'I'm not in but my husband is' never goes away does it? In 0.04 seconds my brain considered both 'housemate' and 'friend'. We have been married for ten years.

🔴 Palestine Action activists have alleged medical mistreatment and violations of their human and religious rights during their time on remand. My colleague @weronikas.bsky.social reports from their press conference for @hyphenonline.com: hyphenonline.com/2026/03/25/f...

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded when I asked if she agrees with her Shadow Lord Chancellor that Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square is an "act of domination"

perhaps @seththevoz.bsky.social might know how many Conservative frontbench MPs are members of all male private members' clubs?

Keir Starmer has criticised Tory leader Kemi Badenoch for failing to act over ‘appalling’ comments against Muslims made by her shadow justice secretary Nick Timothy. @sajeraj.bsky.social reports⬇️ hyphenonline.com/2026/03/18/n...

🏠 Buried in housing data published by the government last month is something that should be getting more attention. In the year to March 2025, English councils granted planning permission for just 7,384 social rent homes – 3% of the total 235,000 homes that they greenlit. 🧵

I spent several months trying to get access to FOI documents of Mayor Andrea Jenkyns' correspondence with fracking companies in Lincolnshire. Read about what I found in my latest piece for The Guardian! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔴 EXC by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: 360 race-related complaints made to a pair of police forces after they declared themselves 'institutionally racist' did not result in a single officer being sacked in two years. The data has only been released to us after an 8-month transparency battle.

never ceases to baffle me that people who work in politics are willing to have conversations like this in public places!

🔴 The lead coroner for diversity in England & Wales has admitted that a lack of data is hampering efforts to broaden access to the job – and said she would support a shake-up of the sector to put coroners under a national umbrella service (currently managed by local councils).

🔴 Now leading @hyphenonline.com: two major British Muslim organisations, including the @mcb.org.uk, have said they cannot endorse the government’s new definition of Islamophobia, published last night following a year-long process. Full story by Saman Javed 👇 hyphenonline.com/2026/03/10/i...

🔴 Wes Streeting appears to be distancing himself from senior Labour figures – including Starmer – over the by-election loss on Thurs. Criticises attempts to 'delegitimise' Muslim voters. Starmer wrote to MPs last week calling Greens 'sectarian'. hyphenonline.com/2026/03/04/w...

Please read this thread as a 'micro-example' of what is going so wrong with the English court system - and note the 'butterfly' effect point. Our court system is so rackety and improvised, one slip and so many other things will go wrong.

"We smirk when churches get sold and we buy them as mosques. But 20 years from now, we will be selling mosques. There is no way we will be able to keep them open." Candid stuff from @mcb.org.uk chief Dr Wajid Akhter, speaking to Saman Javed for @hyphenonline.com. hyphenonline.com/2026/03/03/m...

The second part of our investigation into the effects of excessive waits for NHS treatment is out. We found that kids from Asian backgrounds are overrepresented on paediatric wait lists – kids such as Rayyaan, pictured here. 🧵

Tens of thousands of ppl have died after waiting more than the statutory 18 weeks for NHS treatment – often for severely life-limiting conditions like cateracts – since Labour came to power pledging to slash waits. 7,737 had waited more than a year when they died. hyphenonline.com/2026/02/23/n...

🔴 Gorton and Denton's large Muslim population (nearly 30% of the seat) is a key target for political parties in the by-election. Are their messages getting through? @sajeraj.bsky.social visited Longsight for @hyphenonline.com to find out. hyphenonline.com/2026/02/17/g...

NEW from @anitamureithi.bsky.social: 18,000 Home Office immigration staff still haven't had equality and human rights training – 6 years after the HO accepted a recommendation from the Windrush Lessons Learned Review that *all* immigration & policy officials do it. hyphenonline.com/2026/02/19/1...

That last point. She’s exactly right.

🔴 A judicial review against the govt's rollout of pepper spray (PAVA) in young offender institutions was dismissed today, meaning its use will continue. The judge cited govt assurances that the spray would only be used in 'extremely rare' instances. But Hyphen can reveal...

🔴 NEW from Aisha Rimi on Hyphen: a generation of Yemeni steelworkers who helped build post-war Britain in the 1950s/60s are still owed years' worth of pension payments, leaving some destitute. (Pic: Getty)

For years I've been boring people with my tedious theory that Driving Home For Christmas can be understood as a song about dying just before Christmas ('red lights all around' like in a hospital bed, 'holy ground', 'I sing for you though you can't hear me' etc). Which means...

I know we all deserve some time off, but Thursday 18 December is very much not "the last day before Christmas".

Can the UK really define Islamophobia without using the word Islamophobia? Saman Javed looks back at the disputes and false starts in Britain's journey to an official definition of the problem, including the row over what to call it. hyphenonline.com/2025/12/17/i...

Protests have been held across Italy against the detention of imam Mohamed Shahin. The far-right government of Giorgia Meloni is moving to extradite Shahin — despite prosecutors dismissing criminal charges against him. ✍🏽Dalia Ismail hyphenonline.com/2025/12/11/m...

🔴 NEW: gaps in translation services were linked to the deaths of 48 kids in the UK last year, inc 34 babies. @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social: “We know language barriers are an impediment to women accessing maternity services.” ✍️ @weronikas.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/12/03/t...

With the government expected to scrap the two-child benefit cap in today's budget, here's a reminder of the disproportionate impact of the policy on Muslim families 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/t...

🏳️‍⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026. Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️ 🧵 Details 👇

🔴 EXC from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: babies and toddlers have been referred to the government’s controversial counter-terrorism scheme Prevent hundreds of times since 2016, new data reveals.

🔴 NEW from @anitamureithi.bsky.social: the government's former resettlement minister Lord Khan told an audience at #HyphenFestival2025 that the 'life in the UK' test for new citizens is not fit for purpose & Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech was 'not right'. hyphenonline.com/2025/11/04/w...

I'm honoured to be chairing a panel to discuss Muslim voters' responses to the UK's political omnicrisis at tomorrow's Hyphen Festival with Shav Taj (Welsh TUC), Mothin Ali (Green co-deputy leader) and Hina Bokhari (London Lib Dems). Details of how to tune in below!

New venue concept: loft bar but it's a British loft not a US loft. No lighting, no floor, fibrous yellow decor, squirrels nesting in the corner, entry via a stepladder, no one can stand up straight once they're inside. Is this anything

Beyond proud that my @hyphenonline.com colleagues @lucascumiskey.bsky.social, Saman Javed and @anitamureithi.bsky.social have been shortlisted in the #BritishJournalismAwards2025 – days after our northern corr Aisha Rimi won Journalist Media Personality of the Year at the Black Muslim Awards 2025.

LOVE this story about the heroes in Nottingham teaching medical English to migrant women so they can tell the GP what's wrong. Loads of heartwarming stories like this in our 'Island of Neighbours' series (no prizes for identifying the misguided prime ministerial quote that spawned that one).

Unfortunately The i Paper is making several reporters redundant today, and my role is one of them. I'm very proud of the work I've published over the last three years, and I'm looking forward to continuing my reporting freelance. Want to chat? Drop me an email, text or DM.

Excellent to see a planning story that pulls out – in the subhead no less! – a figure for social rent homes, not the nebulous category of "affordable". (Less excellent is the figure itself.) www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

I just reverse image searched this to see if I could find the original and of course an AI summary came up before the actual results. But ... does this suggest that AI can understand and translate its own slop back into English??

Surely there is no coming back for the curious Guardian style ruling on capping down political parties (Labour party, Conservative party, etc) when it comes to Your Party. Looks like they did it once then gave up

BREAKING: A crossbench peer who was among five independent experts tasked with producing an Islamophobia definition has issued a warning as the group submits its proposals to the government. Story by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/10/13/i...

*LOVE* this feature by @leilalatif.bsky.social about the voice actors who dub the Arabic versions of films & cartoons. If you've ever looked at the dubbing credits for a million languages at the end of a Netflix show and wondered who all those people are, read this! hyphenonline.com/2025/10/07/v...

A rare bit of (sort of) actual nice positive news about people not being racist? hyphenonline.com/2025/10/07/s...

Muslims in Peacehaven have been left ‘terrified’ following an arson attack on their mosque, a manager has said. Full story by Saman Javed. hyphenonline.com/2025/10/06/p...

🔴 In his first interview since leaving the role of faith minister, Wajid Khan speaks to @sajeraj.bsky.social about tackling racism, celebrating the contributions of migrants, and why the government shouldn't shelve its anti-Islamophobia work. hyphenonline.com/2025/10/01/w...

The two-child benefit cap helps keep poor people poor and disproportionately affects British Muslim families. Scrapping it (as govt is reported to be doing) is vastly better news for Britain than anything that's been announced at Labour conference. hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/t...

Feels a bit egregious to post about awards two days in a row, but I have just found out I was nominated for – and have won – an independent journalism award for my reporting following the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland for @wearequeeraf.com Thank you!

1/ This is a huge victory for those pressuring Microsoft to pull out of its deal with the Israeli military. Perhaps less obviously, it will also be music to the ears of many UK Muslims with pensions and investments tied up in halal funds.

🔴 NEW from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social for @hyphenonline.com: British Muslims with investments and pensions in sharia-compliant funds may be unknowingly profiting from Israel’s war in Gaza and the occupation economy. hyphenonline.com/2025/09/23/s...

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

[email protected] is the Greens' new co-deputy leader. He made headlines last year for trying to deescalate riots – and was attacked by the far right for his efforts. Greens now the only mainstream party in Eng & Wales with a Muslim leader or deputy leader hyphenonline.com/2025/09/02/m...