The author narrates her powerful debut novel about a British-Indian girl who suddenly loses the ability to speakIn Mona Arshi’s debut novel, which has been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths prize (the winner is announced next week), a British-Indian girl named R…
Women’s achievements and contributions have been routinely neglected, overlooked or misattributed. In my new book, I tell the story of 1,000 of these extraordinary characters missing from history. Here are just a fewWhat is history? Who decides which people d…
We have to break the cycle of misogyny that makes women feel at risk: This Girl Can’s guide sets out steps you can takeThe clocks have gone back, the evenings are drawing in, the weather is changing. None of this makes it easier for people to exercise. For ma…
Jemma Mitchell murdered Mee Kuen Chong after victim backed out of giving her £200,000 to repair homeA woman has been found guilty of killing her friend and dumping her headless body more than 200 miles away in order to inherit hundreds of thousands of pounds.…
It was a struggle for Black Britons to make headway 50 years ago, and it still is now – but it is important to fight onFifty years ago, when racists called and wrote daily letters to ITV’s Today programme in 1968 telling the corporation “Get that nigger off o…
Culture ministry puts artworks on display once again after destruction and theft wrought by successive conflictsUpon entering the drab building housing Iraq’s culture ministry, visitors unexpectedly stumble upon some of the country’s greatest treasures. In a …
New weapons add much-needed variety, but 2D spy sections feel forced.
Judge finds woman unlawfully discriminated against in case of transnational marriage abandonmentA woman who was abandoned in Pakistan by her British husband and forcibly separated from her two-year-old daughter has won a high court case against such practice.…
