With heavy losses for the governing Labour party, and huge gains for the rightwing populist party, Reform UK, the results of last week's local elections on 7 May have reverberated through the UK like an earthquake. Here is what will happen next
Dear Home Secretary, We are writing to you with the utmost urgency regarding the reported upcoming performance by Kanye West at Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park.
On 28 March 2026, tens of thousands of people gathered in London to march against the far right.
March TOGETHER against the far right. Central London. Saturday 28 March 2026. 12pm to 6pm. Join us!
Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth. Carlos Hernández de Miguel was a Spanish journalist and writer. He died on 3 February 2026.
For a snapshot of the authoritarian era to which today’s launch of Unwritten Lives is a response, we don’t have to rewind too far, just to the recent past, to moments that still reside fresh in recent memory.
Ishtiyaq Shukri is the award-winning author of The Silent Minaret, I See You, and An Unwritten Life. …
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