Shazia Mirza

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

Shazia's week

  • 19 February 2007
  • 1 comment

Birmingham terrorists are the worst kind because they are terrorists with a Brummie accent

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

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

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?

Britain: hotbed of terrorist talent

  • 18 December 2006
  • 7 comments

Christmas in Mecca - no not the bingo hall

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

Shazia's week

  • 13 November 2006
  • 1 comment

I keep being offered cocaine. I must look the type: sexually repressed with large nostrils

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

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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