I am writing to express my alarm and objection to the "race-based anti-immigrant pogrom" playing out in Belfast. Do not attempt to normalise it. Do not pretend it is a recent phenomenon, or even an isolated occurrence. It is the latest eruption of a lethal pattern of violence, which has been deployed against migrants in the UK for decades.
With heavy losses for the governing Labour party, and huge gains for the rightwing populist party, Reform UK, the results of last week's local elections on 7 May have reverberated through the UK like an earthquake. Here is what will happen next
During dark times, we must stand by our Jewish neighbours as generations of Londoners have done before us
Local elections have led to a surge of racism in a country that still struggles to see itself as anything other than white
Dear Home Secretary, We are writing to you with the utmost urgency regarding the reported upcoming performance by Kanye West at Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park.
For a snapshot of the authoritarian era to which today’s launch of Unwritten Lives is a response, we don’t have to rewind too far, just to the recent past, to moments that still reside fresh in recent memory.
Ishtiyaq Shukri is the award-winning author of The Silent Minaret, I See You, and An Unwritten Life. …
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