Articles

Here’s a fairly comprehensive list of all my latest work.

Long-winded, fruitless public inquiries just pile more misery on victims. It doesn’t have to be this way

26.07.2024

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Guardian

Intimidation and harassment of female MPs is about patriarchy, not Palestine

14.07.2024

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Hyphen

Meet the young Tories fighting to change their old party: ‘Where do we go now?’

14.07.2024

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Observer

The story of a heat death: David went to work in his new job on a French building site. By the end of the day he was dead

13.07.2024

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Guardian

The prison and court systems are on the verge of collapse. Why aren’t Labour or the Tories talking about it?

30.06.2024

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Guardian

Jess Phillips on campaign trail: ‘I’m trying to remind people we have power to change things’

23.06.2024

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Observer

They’re in pans, fruit, dust – and even tap water. But can I eradicate toxic forever chemicals from my home?

25.05.2024

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Guardian

‘Those two weeks felt how the world should be’: the young single mums who took on the housing crisis – and won

02.05.2024

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Guardian

The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter

30.04.2024

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Guardian

The enduring myth of the no-go zone

29.04.2024

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Hyphen

Why are women being blamed for Birmingham’s bankruptcy?

13.03.2024

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Guardian

The unending limbo of the UK’s Ukrainian refugees

05.03.2024

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GQ

Sex, drink, football: the legacy of lads’ mags – by the women who (mostly) loved working for them

03.03.2024

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Observer

Could one simple act help prevent homelessness?

28.02.2024

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Prospect

UK-Houthi conflict stirs fears of escalation among Britain’s Yemenis

27.02.2024

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Al-Jazeera English

In a London borough home to many Muslims, Labour loses appeal over Gaza

15.02.2024

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Al-Jazeera English

‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-pound equal pay scandal

01.02.2024

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Guardian

‘Women struggling with fertility tend to feel isolated’

13.11.2023

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Hyphen

Chainsaws, disguises and toxic tea: the battle for Sheffield’s trees

24.10.2023

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Guardian

Norma Percy: witness to history

06.09.2023

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Prospect

What is behind extreme hoarding?

04.07.2023

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Guardian

The backlash: how slavery research came under fire

01.06.2023

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Guardian

The Wembley Point mystery: who was the woman who jumped to her death?

27.05.2023

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Guardian

They look like police, but are they? The worrying rise of Britain’s pseudo-cops

10.05.2023

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Guardian

Probation officers failed and Zara Aleena was murdered. You need to know why

24.01.2023

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Guardian

A thief came into our family and took the heart out of it: the killing of Zara Aleena

14.01.2023

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Guardian

“We’ll be hated, but we’ll stir things up”: Insulate Britain on what happened next

17.12.2022

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Guardian

In Ukraine, Boris Johnson’s downfall is met with sorrow

13.07.2022

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Al-Jazeera English

Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda

09.06.2022

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Guardian

What comes next for Imran Khan?

14.04.2023

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Telegraph

‘Cornered tiger’ Imran Khan makes last ditch bid to cling to political power

02.04.2022

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Observer

Checkpoints, Machine Guns, and Fences: This Pakistani Port Is Not for the People

23.11.2021

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Hakai

Understanding Pakistan Through the Story of Karachi

03.09.2021

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LitHub

The plight of women helped justify war in Afghanistan. Now they have been abandoned

18.08.2021

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Guardian

Among the Covid sceptics: ‘We are being manipulated, without a shadow of a doubt’

08.04.2021

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Guardian

Personal story: my grandmother, Karachi and me

18.03.2021

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New Statesman

When will there be justice for Pakistan’s victims of child abuse?

11.03.2021

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Al-Jazeera English

The mystery of the Gatwick drone

01.12.2020

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Guardian

How Western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakistan’s politics

12.11.2020

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Guardian

‘Alarming’: Experts slam UK plan for offshore asylum centre

05.10.2020

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Al-Jazeera English

How democracies die: the case of Hungary

28.08.2020

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Prospect

Homeless at the Holiday Inn

07.08.2020

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1843

It’s shameful that Johnson has reneged on the inquiry into Tory Islamophobia

23.12.2019

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Guardian

Why are Britain’s ethnic minorities fearful after Johnson’s win?

19.12.2019

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Al-Jazeera English

If the Tories stop older veterans being held to account, the army is no longer accountable

12.11.2019

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Guardian

Roma Holocaust: Amid rising hate, ‘forgotten’ victims remembered

30.10.2019

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Al-Jazeera English

The first Pakistani Nobel laureate few have heard of

28.10.2019

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Al-Jazeera English

British taste for curry has changed, but appetite remains strong

07.10.2019

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Al-Jazeera English

‘The way universities are run is making us ill’: inside the student mental health crisis

27.09.2019

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Guardian

Young Palestinian musicians challenge ‘system of oppression’

05.08.2019

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Al-Jazeera English

‘Inspired by Central Park’: the new city for a million outside Karachi

08.07.2019

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Guardian

British schools should teach migration and empire: Runnymede

04.07.2019

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Al-Jazeera English

Why are British ethnic minorities more likely to be lonely?

20.06.2019

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Al-Jazeera English

Bethnal Green: Unease and fear in Shamima Begum’s London district

27.02.2019

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Al-Jazeera English

Men In Pakistan Are Blackmailing Women On Facebook

22.02.2019

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Elle

Meet the 23-year-old activist who could change Pakistan

16.10.2018

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Prospect

Should we treat crime as something to be cured rather than punished?

24.07.2018

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Guardian

Under the watchful eye of the army

20.06.2018

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Index on Censorship

Why we may never know if British troops committed war crimes in Iraq

07.06.2018

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Guardian