Shazia Mirza
Shazia Mirza is an award-winning stand up comedian. In 2003 she was named by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. Since 2006 she has written a fortnightly column for the New Statesman, for which she won Columnist of the Year at the PPA Awards.
Articles by Shazia Mirza
Results 61 to 69 of 69
Life & Society
Shazia's week
- 19 February 2007
- 1 comment
Birmingham terrorists are the worst kind because they are terrorists with a Brummie accent
Life & Society
I'm sorry, luv, I'm in America. The rest of the world? What's that?
- 05 February 2007
- 9 comments
Shilpa deserved to win because she was the best cook and the best cleaner
Life & Society
Shazia's week
- 22 January 2007
- 2 comments
The girls are intelligent and attend a good school. I ask them for their role model. Jade Goody, they reply
Life & Society
Shazia's week
- 08 January 2007
How much fun can wearing a mad hatter's hat, pink fairy wings and getting obliterated on WKD be?
Life & Society
Britain: hotbed of terrorist talent
- 18 December 2006
- 7 comments
Christmas in Mecca - no not the bingo hall
Life & Society
Watching gay football
- 11 December 2006
- 6 comments
The changing-room chat was all about salon-quality hair products and there wasn't so much as a whiff of Lynx deodorant
Shazia's week
- 27 November 2006
- 2 comments
To India in the luggage hold, to do a sex-free show in a democracy that is not what it might seem
Life & Society
Shazia's week
- 13 November 2006
- 1 comment
I keep being offered cocaine. I must look the type: sexually repressed with large nostrils
Life & Society
Shazia's Week
- 30 October 2006
- 1 comment
The women in my family have started wearing the burqa, as we all use the same bus pass
