🏥NEW: A father has urged the government to focus urgently on tackling the #NHS treatment backlog — after his two-year-old son waited seven months for surgery.
‘Every day, my son was getting worse and worse,' he said. 'He couldn’t breathe properly.’
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Tens of thousands of ppl have died after waiting more than the statutory 18 weeks for NHS treatment – often for severely life-limiting conditions like cateracts – since Labour came to power pledging to slash waits.
7,737 had waited more than a year when they died.
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Responding to our findings, @laylamoran.bsky.social — who chairs the cross-party @commonshealth.bsky.social
— said: ‘The fact that so many have died while waiting is tragic and speaks to a system in desperate need of reform. Our committee is intent on pushing the government to go further faster.’
Hyphen can reveal that 79,130 names were taken off the waiting lists of 127 acute NHS trusts between September 2024 and August 2025 because patients had died before reaching the front of the queue.
🔴 Exclusive: Tens of thousands of people have died after waiting longer than the recommended 18 weeks for hospital procedures such as hip and knee replacements since Labour came to power pledging to slash waits, data uncovered by @hyphenonline.com suggests. hyphenonline.com/2026/02/23/n...
Just over half of Home Office immigration staff have completed equalities training, six years after it was recommended for ‘all immigration and policy officials’.
Apsana Begum MP: ‘It is clear that the lessons are not being learned fast enough.’
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“I am deeply concerned to hear that PAVA spray has been used against so many children in less than a year since the policy was approved.” - Children's Commissioner for England.
https://hyphenonline.com/2026/01/19/pava-pepper-spray-incapacitant-young-offender-institutions-18-1-in-10/
🔴Excl: Children's Commissioner for England is ‘deeply concerned’ by data revealing 10% of teens at two young offender institutions had a controversial incapacitant spray used on them in 2025.
A judge on Monday quashed a challenge against the use of Pava in YOIs.
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Screenshotted text (with 'extremely rare' highlighted) reads: This, then, is how the decision-making process developed and concluded. It is plain that the Secretary of State was closely involved in the formation of the PAVA policy and was insistent upon thorough safeguards being introduced concerning its use, as well as constant “live” monitoring and oversight of the limited use of PAVA which she expected to be extremely rare in view of the limitations upon its use: viz, as a last resort, and only where there is an immediate threat of life-changing or life-ending violence.
🔴 A judicial review against the govt's rollout of pepper spray (PAVA) in young offender institutions was dismissed today, meaning its use will continue.
The judge cited govt assurances that the spray would only be used in 'extremely rare' instances. But Hyphen can reveal...
You can read the full story here 👇 hyphenonline.com/2026/01/19/p...
It comes after a high court judge today quashed a judicial review brought by @thehowardleague.bsky.social charity challenging the rollout of pelargonic acid vanillylamide (Pava) in YOIs, pointing to government assurances that the use of the chemical would be 'extremely rare'.
🔴Excl: The children’s commissioner for England is 'deeply concerned' by data obtained by Hyphen revealing a tenth of all youngsters at two young offender institutions have been sprayed with a controversial synthetic pepper spray in the months since ministers greenlit a trial of its use by staff
ICYMI: A generation of Yemeni steelworkers who helped build post-war Britain in the 1950s and 1960s are still waiting for their missing pension payments — years after government was first made aware of the problem, @hyphenonline.com's Aisha Rimi revealed last week 👇 hyphenonline.com/2026/01/07/y...
Can the UK really define Islamophobia without using the word Islamophobia?
Saman Javed looks back at the disputes and false starts in Britain's journey to an official definition of the problem, including the row over what to call it.
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Halal food fraud reports to the Food Standards Agency hit a five-year high in 2024, @hyphenonline.com can reveal
🔴 Labour MP @nazshahbfd.bsky.social said allegations of halal food fraud were 'deeply disturbing'
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A baby's hand poking out of a red sleeve, visible from behind as it sticks out of a buggy
🔴 EXC from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social: babies and toddlers have been referred to the government’s controversial counter-terrorism scheme Prevent hundreds of times since 2016, new data reveals.
🚨Exclusive: Babies and toddlers have been referred to the government’s controversial counter-terrorism scheme Prevent hundreds of times since 2016
@libdems.org.uk MP Munira Wilson said ‘These figures are deeply concerning and raise serious questions’ about Prevent hyphenonline.com/2025/11/12/b...
🔴 NEW from @anitamureithi.bsky.social: the government's former resettlement minister Lord Khan told an audience at #HyphenFestival2025 that the 'life in the UK' test for new citizens is not fit for purpose & Starmer's 'island of strangers' speech was 'not right'.
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L-R: Lucas Cumiskey, Saman Javed and Anita Mureithi
Beyond proud that my @hyphenonline.com colleagues @lucascumiskey.bsky.social, Saman Javed and @anitamureithi.bsky.social have been shortlisted in the #BritishJournalismAwards2025 – days after our northern corr Aisha Rimi won Journalist Media Personality of the Year at the Black Muslim Awards 2025.
Hands up if you remember 'Party Marty'? The BYOB event extraordinaire of the Boris Johnson Covid-era? Well, he's got a new gig as ambassador to Libya www.gov.uk/government/n...
BREAKING: A crossbench peer who was among five independent experts tasked with producing an Islamophobia definition has issued a warning as the group submits its proposals to the government.
Story by @lucascumiskey.bsky.social 👇
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The family of Ayaan Ali Waeys, a Black Muslim woman who died after giving birth to a stillborn baby, have called for urgent action on racial inequalities in maternity care.
An inquest found ‘missed opportunities’ in her treatment.
✍🏿 @anitamureithi.bsky.social
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British Muslims with investments and pensions in sharia-compliant funds may be unknowingly profiting from Israel’s war in Gaza and the occupation economy, a @hyphenonline.com investigation has found.
Full story from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social.
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Worrying to see that accounts which spread disinformation related to the riots last July are *still going* on X - and spreading racist lies about British Muslim politicians.
Thank you @hyphenonline.com & @lucascumiskey.bsky.social for this important and concerning investigation
In July, @CommonsSITC found the #OnlineSafetyAct doesn't address the algorithmic amplification of misinformation used to fuel harm during the unrest last summer.
Read @onlinehyphen’s piece on how the same X accounts still target UK Muslims: hyphenonline.com/2025/07/30/e...
Full report from @lucascumiskey.bsky.social for @hyphenonline.com 👇
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X accounts that fuelled the 2024 riots with disinformation are still targeting prominent British Muslims.
Former equalities minister Anneliese Dodds warns she’s ‘very concerned’ by their ‘hate-filled rhetoric’.
✍🏻 @lucascumiskey.bsky.social
Illo: Michelle Thompson
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Last night, MPs voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group whilst colleagues a few corridors away heard harrowing accounts from doctors of Gaza’s healthcare collapse.
@lucascumiskey.bsky.social reports⬇️
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🌹NEW: A major survey of Muslim Labour politicians has warned the ‘historic ties’ between Muslims and the party are at ‘breaking point’, with more than half of those surveyed saying the govt has represented their communities badly hyphenonline.com/2025/06/05/l...
🌹 Exclusive: Some 155,000 more Muslim children are affected by the two-child benefit cap than previously thought
@hyphenonline.com's findings have sparked calls from Labour MPs and the party’s Muslim network for ministers to axe policy 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/06/02/t...
