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2 days ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

For 15 years, prime ministers have stood before the public and made firm promises to bring net migration down — only to watch the numbers rise instead. David Cameron pledged in 2010 to reduce net migration to the “tens of thousands”; today, it sits at more than 700,000, nearly three times the figure it was when Cameron first stepped into Downing Street. Every prime minister since then has repeated the promise and none have delivered.

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

Successive British governments have been talking up the economic promise of a post-Brexit Britain for years, one in which the UK is free to strike independent trade deals across the globe. Among those potential deals, few have loomed larger than India: forecast to become the world’s fourth-largest economy in 2025, a rising geopolitical power, and home to a rapidly growing middle class hungry for high-quality goods.

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Ammar Kalia

“Each time I perform, I die a little,” Aakash Odedra says. “I leave a part of myself on the stage for the people watching. I give whatever I have left.”For the past 15 years, the dancer has produced intensely physical, autobiographical productions that combine the Indian classical forms of kathak and bharatanatyam with contemporary dance. Odedra’s shows often take the form of deeply expressive solo or duet performances.

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Yousra Samir Imran

AI-powered websites such as ChatGPT can answer practically any question. They can summarise long articles, come up with travel itineraries and . ChatGPT boasts that it saves time for 400 million people a week, including busy professionals, students and parents. But religious scholars might want to think twice before relying on AI for Qur’anic references — something the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) discovered the hard way last month.

1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

Labour MPs have been privately expressing their deepening anxiety over the rise of Reform UK for months. That concern, previously limited to private conversation, has now exploded into political reality following the local election results. Nigel Farage, never one to undersell his own movement, recently told me he believed Reform posed as much of a threat to Labour as to the Conservatives and, after Reform’s huge gains on Thursday and Friday, it’s hard to argue with him.