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...

Halal food fraud reports to the Food Standards Agency hit a five-year high in 2024, @hyphenonline.com can reveal 🔴 Labour MP @nazshahbfd.bsky.social said allegations of halal food fraud were 'deeply disturbing' hyphenonline.com/2025/12/16/h...

🔴 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.

🚨Exclusive: Babies and toddlers have been referred to the government’s controversial counter-terrorism scheme Prevent hundreds of times since 2016 @libdems.org.uk MP Munira Wilson said ‘These figures are deeply concerning and raise serious questions’ about Prevent hyphenonline.com/2025/11/12/b...

🔴 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...

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.

Hands up if you remember 'Party Marty'? The BYOB event extraordinaire of the Boris Johnson Covid-era? Well, he's got a new gig as ambassador to Libya www.gov.uk/government/n...

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...

The family of Ayaan Ali Waeys, a Black Muslim woman who died after giving birth to a stillborn baby, have called for urgent action on racial inequalities in maternity care. An inquest found ‘missed opportunities’ in her treatment. ✍🏿 @anitamureithi.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/10/08/a...

British Muslims with investments and pensions in sharia-compliant funds may be unknowingly profiting from Israel’s war in Gaza and the occupation economy, a @hyphenonline.com investigation has found. Full story from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social. hyphenonline.com/2025/09/23/s...

Worrying to see that accounts which spread disinformation related to the riots last July are *still going* on X - and spreading racist lies about British Muslim politicians. Thank you @hyphenonline.com & @lucascumiskey.bsky.social for this important and concerning investigation

In July, @CommonsSITC found the #OnlineSafetyAct doesn't address the algorithmic amplification of misinformation used to fuel harm during the unrest last summer. Read @onlinehyphen’s piece on how the same X accounts still target UK Muslims: hyphenonline.com/2025/07/30/e...

Full report from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social for @hyphenonline.com 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/07/30/e... 5/5

X accounts that fuelled the 2024 riots with disinformation are still targeting prominent British Muslims. Former equalities minister Anneliese Dodds warns she’s ‘very concerned’ by their ‘hate-filled rhetoric’. ✍🏻 @lucascumiskey.bsky.social Illo: Michelle Thompson hyphenonline.com/2025/07/30/e...

Last night, MPs voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group whilst colleagues a few corridors away heard harrowing accounts from doctors of Gaza’s healthcare collapse. @lucascumiskey.bsky.social reports⬇️ hyphenonline.com/2025/07/03/p...

🌹NEW: A major survey of Muslim Labour politicians has warned the ‘historic ties’ between Muslims and the party are at ‘breaking point’, with more than half of those surveyed saying the govt has represented their communities badly hyphenonline.com/2025/06/05/l...

🌹 Exclusive: Some 155,000 more Muslim children are affected by the two-child benefit cap than previously thought @hyphenonline.com's findings have sparked calls from Labour MPs and the party’s Muslim network for ministers to axe policy 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/t...

🔴 EXCLUSIVE from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: 150k more Muslim kids are affected by the two-child benefit cap than thought. Muslims are the worst hit faith group, with 744,863 kids living in 3+ child households. Pressure mounting on the government to reconsider. hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/t...

@greenparty.org.uk housing lead @elliechowns.bsky.social grills the government in parliament over findings from Hyphen's investigation that laid bare the dearth of social rent homes approved during Labour’s first six months in power. ✍🏻 @lucascumiskey.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/05/21/p...

🏠 The @greenparty.org.uk‬’s housing lead @elliechowns.bsky.social‬ has grilled the government in parliament over findings from our @hyphenonline.com social rent homes investigation 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/05/21/p...

🔴Exclusive: over half of England’s councils approved zero homes for social rent during Labour’s first six months in government, figures obtained by Hyphen suggest. Lib Dem MP Gideon Amos described our findings as 'deeply concerning'. ✍🏻 @lucascumiskey.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...

🔴 Big exclusive leading Hyphen this morning – data from 119 councils shows half didn't greenlight a SINGLE social rent home in Labour's first six months. Some of these councils have waiting lists for social housing well over 10k. Full story here 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...

🔴 Exclusive: More than half of England’s councils did not approve the building of any homes for social rent during Labour’s first six months in government, figures obtained by @hyphenonline.com suggest hyphenonline.com/2025/05/19/h...

🚨Exclusive: A Tory candidate in next week’s local elections once shared a platform with Enoch Powell and was turfed out of the party after handing out an anti-immigration pamphlet referring to “civil war” in Bradford, @hyphenonline.com can reveal hyphenonline.com/2025/04/25/n...

🔴 EXC on @hyphenonline.com from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: a Muslim civil servants' group that was suspended and smeared by the deputy PM over allegations of pro-Palestine lobbying was later found to have done nothing wrong. Instead of apologising, the government tried to cover up the result.

Civil Service Muslim Network cleared of Gaza lobbying claims - Hyphen hyphenonline.com/2025/03/26/c... @mohammedshafiq.bsky.social, chair of #PCS national Black members’ committee, represented the now exonerated civil servant during the investigation.

I wrote about ginger for @hyphenonline.com as part of a series on spices. Did you know it's mentioned in the Quran and was a luxury item in Europe throughout medieval times? hyphenonline.com/2025/03/25/g...

It’s 5.30pm on a recent Friday, but instead of joining their families for iftar Fatema Rajwani and Zahra Farooque are being ushered into their prison cells. Their mothers tell @anitamureithi.bsky.social how they're coping with spending their first Ramadan apart. hyphenonline.com/2025/03/25/f...

🔎 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...

🔴 Exclusive: a government probe into a Muslim civil servants’ group that was suspended and publicly criticised by a Tory minister in 2024 over allegations of pro-Palestine lobbying has concluded that it had 'no case to answer'. ✍🏻 @lucascumiskey.bsky.social hyphenonline.com/2025/03/26/c...

NEW: Recovering gambling addicts have been visiting mosques and Muslim community centres to help confront taboos around getting help for the addiction in Muslim communities, Weronika Strzyżyńska reports for @hyphenonline.com 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/03/05/m...

🌹 London mayor Sadiq Khan has defended the Labour government’s hardened stance on migration — but said he believed that 'diversity is a strength, not a weakness' Scoop by Aisha Rimi hyphenonline.com/2025/02/27/s...

📜A landmark agreement between 12 Muslim and Jewish faith leaders from across the UK was presented to King Charles III at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday @hyphenonline.com's Saman Javed popped to the palace to find out more hyphenonline.com/2025/02/11/d...

💷The Home Office splurged nearly £1.9 million on a pilot scheme to fit GPS tags to people on immigration bail — but this was found to be cruel and ineffective Excl from @hyphenonline.com's Anita Mureithi 👇

🚨My first @hyphenonline.com story reveals Kent's flagship reception centres for young asylum seekers lost vulnerable kids more than 160 times between 2022 and 2024 ⚠️Three still haven't been found and children's commissioner she'd write to Kent CC about this ... 🧵 hyphenonline.com/2025/02/05/k...

🚨Failures in the government’s flagship digital visa system have left people unable to access benefits and even sleeping rough, while Home Office staff dealing with the new scheme appear to be 'learning on the job' Scoop from Aisha Rimi for @hyphenonline.com👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/01/31/e...

British Palestinians with family in Gaza have told @morgankofori.bsky.social they are desperate for a family reunion scheme in the UK. “There’s destruction everywhere. It’s going to take years just taking the rubble out of Gaza.” Full story on @hyphenonline.com 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/01/30/b...

🇬🇧 🇵🇸 British Palestinians are grappling with whether to join relatives in Gaza, as hundreds of thousands of people in the pulverised territory return on foot to what remains of their homes, @morgankofori.bsky.social reports hyphenonline.com/2025/01/30/b...

⚠️ Bangladeshi and Pakistani households continue to face Britain’s highest levels of poverty, with the West Midlands now the only region where deprivation rates are worse than in the mid-1990s, new analysis has found Anita Mureithi has more for @hyphenonline.com 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/01/29/b...

'We’re feeling like we have a target painted on our backs,' the founder of an Oldham homeless charity told @hyphenonline.com's Aisha Rimi 'That undercurrent was always there, but now it’s been heightened by this one tweet by a very wealthy man.' hyphenonline.com/2025/01/28/o...

🗞️Mohammed Wajid Akhter, a doctor from Essex, has been elected secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain Saman Javed has the latest @hyphenonline.com 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/01/27/m...

A new body that hopes to lobby ministers on issues affecting Muslims across areas including education, healthcare and the criminal justice system is set to launch next month — and insists it won’t seek to rival the Muslim Council of Britain, Saman Javed reports hyphenonline.com/2025/01/24/b...

Could you be a Reform mayor?' the party's chairman asks in an email update just in. Reform is on the hunt for a slew of mayoral candidates... and "no prior experience is necessary" 🤣

🇬🇧🇺🇸Starmer's team is up beat about its prospects of building bridges with the new Trump adminstration — but Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador could prove to be a hurdle, writes Shehab Khan hyphenonline.com/2025/01/21/d...

A really important, timely piece from @hyphenonline.com's Weronika Strzyżyńska about Muslim-led groups fighting the erosion of reproductive rights in the US 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/01/15/a...

The story of Awa Keita, who gave birth in a packed dinghy in the Atlantic, shocked the world But the Home Office said it doesn't know how many pregnant migrant women have made the deadly Channel crossing in small boats in recent years Should they be across this?

Schools Week's loss is our gain - so excited to be working with Lucas again (Islington Gazette 2018 massive) and can't wait to see what he digs up this year and beyond. If you've got a tip, please let him know!

Chuffed to say I'm starting 2025 with a new job as investigative reporter @hyphenonline.com, where I'll be doing in-depth reporting on issues relevant to British Muslims in areas including politics and social affairs. Beyond excited to be joining Hyphen's brilliant team!

🪂 Trust bosses have defended parachuting in central team staff to their schools during Ofsted inspections after the union representing inspectors raised ‘significant concerns’ SW investigates… schoolsweek.co.uk/revealed-how...

Ofsted boss Sir Martyn Oliver has revealed he’s worried by the rise of flexi-schooling – saying the watchdog isn’t able to get a 'proper handle' on the practice. He said he's flagged his concerns with the government and will continue to do so schoolsweek.co.uk/ofsted-boss-...