The rise of British Muslims
What do two politicians’ memoirs reveal about the changing fortunes of British Muslims in public life?
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Political Islam won’t die with the ayatollah
Those willing Iran’s collapse miss the contemporary genius of its founding ideology
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The fall of Ayatollah Khamenei
He became the gravedigger of the revolution that he helped lead
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In Gorton and Denton, the Muslim vote is fracturing
Voters have decisively turned against Labour
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Islam is the engine of world history
The religion may have transformed every corner of the globe, but it was also radically changed in the process
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What Nigerians think of Trump’s Christian persecution claims
The sectarian battle lines were drawn long before the US intervention
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Islam is part of European history
Historians’ dismissal of the continent’s Muslim legacy is helping to feed contemporary divisions
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
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Mothin Ali: “There’s a lot of racism on the left”
The Green Party councillor on running for the deputy leadership, riots, Islam and race in Britain.
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Support for Palestine in Britain is not limited to Muslim voters
Opinion has shifted in the UK as Israel’s war in Gaza grinds on.
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7/7 changed life for British Muslims forever
It was the 2005 bombings, not 9/11, that put them at the centre of terror discourse.
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The schism at the heart of British Islam
A fault line within Britain’s community of four million Muslims is now widening. On one side are the majority who…
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The Syrian crucible
Can a new Middle East be fashioned from the ruins of the Assad regime?
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Mehdi Hasan: “We don’t value Palestinian life”
The combative Zeteo CEO and former MSNBC host on the media’s moral failures.
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How the Israel-Gaza war broke British politics
The UK is sliding towards Trumpian divisive politics, hate not hope. Calm and proportion are badly needed.
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The Lee Anderson debacle reveals a split in Tory strategy
The MP has doubled down on comments about Sadiq Khan and Islamists – yet Conservatives are reluctant to label him…
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The Islamist roots of French disorder
The country’s riots cannot be explained away by socio-economic woes alone.
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Using my faith to tackle the climate crisis
Stewardship and conservation are at the heart of Islam and other religions.
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Once upon a time in Wakefield
The truth about one white 14-year-old schoolboy and a Koran is less straightforward than the culture war narrative suggests.
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Why Britain’s blasphemy controversies are here to stay
In Wakefield, the state is confronting a problem it doesn’t know how to solve.
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