20+ hour, 43+ min ago  (652+ words) It's not often that you get a direct call from the health secretary. It is even rarer for that call to ask you to lead a piece of work that could reshape public health for generations. But that is exactly…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1366+ words) Growing up in northern England in the 1970s, Nafisa Tosh longed to wear jeans and T-shirts instead of the traditional shalwar kameez and itchy Abba-inspired dresses made by her mother. Things changed when, at eight years old, Tosh got her hands…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (55+ words) Sacked civil servant revealed that No 10 pressured him to find a job for Matthew Doyle " while pushing for Peter Mandelson's appointment...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (575+ words) The UK's largest council goes to the polls on 7 May 2026. Some 600 candidates are lining up to try and make the city normal again...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1402+ words) Since winning four million votes in the 2024 general election " performing better than any challenger party in modern UK politics " Reform UK has gained control of 10 local authorities and enjoyed a surge of media attention. It now poses a significant risk…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (814+ words) Singer-songwriter Ahmed Eid still remembers the CD that would forever change his relationship to music " though he doesn't know exactly what's on it. It was an unlabelled, pirated recording that he found in his family home in Ramallah and would…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (254+ words) Few works by George Orwell have proved as persistently relevant as Animal Farm, a book that has never quite fallen out of step with the world it critiques. Conceived as a satirical allegory for the 1917 Russian Revolution and the rise…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (467+ words) Womanhood, a new book by journalist and author Tahmina Begum, offers a searching and empathetic look into the lives of ordinary South Asian Muslim women in the UK. Navigating the fault lines between tradition and modernity, each of Begum's three…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (705+ words) Once solely the domain of 3-in-1 products, razors and aftershave, the world of male grooming has in recent years undergone a not-so-quiet revolution. Influenced by changing ideas of masculinity and lifestyle brands launched by celebrities from Harry Styles to Dwayne…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (803+ words) At 17, Tamer Nafar was rapping in broken English in his cramped bedroom in Lyd, a city near Tel Aviv, where he still lives. "I barely knew the language, but hip-hop came to me in English, so that's where I started....