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For the @guardian's 'This Summer I' series, I wrote a column about how getting an allotment has radically altered my relationship with food and my local environment! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Burning down the houses of random Filipino families is not 'venting your feelings' It's racism. Astonishing headline from Sky News.

Five years after the pandemic, Muslim key workers say they feel abandoned. Despite keeping the country running while risking their own health in Covid lockdowns, in the years since many have struggled during the cost of living crisis. ✍🏽@thediyora hyphenonline.com/2025/03/18/cov…

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. lessonsfrommygarden.substack.com

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 @thediyora👇🏽 hyphenonline.com/2025/07/08/boo…

With the unseasonably hot weather we’ve been experiencing (every year), it feels timely to kick my @onlinehyphen books column off with five compelling reads on the climate crisis: hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/top…

A plea to the media: please platform disabled people's organisations like @DisRightsUK. The most important story is not the drama in Westminster but about disabled people's futures. Disabled people's representatives must be heard - they're saying the concessions aren't enough.

“These revised proposals are nowhere near good enough and frankly are just not well thought through." Labour MP for Nottingham East Nadia Whittome tells #R4Today she still does not support the government's amended welfare reforms.

Places that will continue to shut down libraries, galleries and arts programs in order to push their resources into automating the production of slop and bombs.

The really appalling and dangerous thing about this piece (and I think it represents the views of senior Labour people) is less the stuff about Corbyn, more the strongly implied argument, "the Jewish community" made Labour support a genocide. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

I don't have to tell you what happened to these three boys. You already know. How awful is that?

A note to book PRs: I'm now writing a books column for @onlinehyphen, 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

Really fascinating that the political insurgents also basically have no idea what they want, other than a cheaper imitation of American cruelty. And much like the current Labour party, a lot of this would be evident if journalists ever asked them a couple of follow up questions

Liberal Democrats call for fines of up to £1,000 for "headphone dodgers" who play loud music and videos on public transport bbc.in/3RxPIr9

Poorest fifth in England pay 4.8% of household income in council tax; richest fifth 1.5%. Council tax based on out of date valuations So many regressive taxes VAT Fuel duty Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Need tax justice. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

for a piece, I'm looking to speak to Muslim Covid-19 frontline workers (who are still doing a similar job now) -- taxi or delivery drivers, transport, healthcare, teachers, supermarkets. Especially keen to speak to people outside of London. DM me if this is you! #journorequest

Note Bibi doesn't weigh in on whether or not this was a Nazi salute. Why? Because to Netanyahu, who spent years legitimising the far right in Europe and beyond, that's simply the wrong question. "Nazi shmazi, who cares? He's a friend of Israel!"

ok this is the tweet that's making me come off of Twitter -- goodbye all, you can find me on the other app xxx

can’t believe they’re swearing him in with the Man United chant

A ceasefire reached in Gaza. Let’s remember Refaat. If I Must Die You Must Live To Tell My Story