After Faizan: Why Pakistan’s Madrassa Children Need More Than Promises of Protection
Muhammad Faizan’s father sent him to a madrassa believing he would be looked after. The teacher came from his village.…
Editorial
The Loveless Majority: How Keir Starmer’s Landslide Unravelled
Sir Keir Starmer has resigned as prime minister and Labour leader less than two years after winning one of the…
Iran’s Gulf Base Strategy: Echoes of Saddam’s 1991 Playbook
Iran’s recent striking US bases and forces based inside Gulf states looks designed to do more than punish American military…
Who Are the TTP? A Detailed Dossier on the Group Driving Pakistan’s Escalation
Pakistan’s strikes across Afghanistan overnight including reported hits on Taliban government-linked military positions are being justified in Islamabad through a…
Ramadan, Deterrence and the ‘Two-Week’ Pattern: Is Washington Signalling War or Staging Pressure on Iran?
The United States latest military build-up across the Middle East has the unmistakable shape of strike preparation: carrier power moving…
Is Washington Preparing to Strike Iran or Repeating a Familiar Pattern?
The steady build-up of American military power across the Middle East, combined with increasingly explicit warnings from Donald Trump, has…
Israel’s Most Expansive Year of Military Action and the Erosion of International Support
The scale of Israel’s military activity in 2025 has reshaped how the state is viewed internationally, not only by its…
The Top 10 British Desi TV Series and Films: The Stories That Raised Us
For many of us growing up Desi in Britain, TV and film were more than entertainment they were quiet mirrors…
The Top 10 Desi Books to Read of All Time: Stories That Tell Us Who We Are
For many of us who grew up in the UK, Desi literature wasn’t just a window into another world it…
The British Desi Christmas: Tradition with a Spiced Twist
For generations of British South Asians, Christmas has evolved from being a distinctly British festival into something uniquely their own…
Fred and Rose West: Violence, Exploitation, and Britain’s Reckoning with Domestic Evil
The crimes of Fred and Rose West remain among the most disturbing in modern British history. Over two decades, the…
The Yorkshire Ripper: Lessons from a National Tragedy
Few criminal cases have scarred the British psyche as deeply as that of the Yorkshire Ripper. The name itself became…