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Lucas Cumiskey

@lucas_cumiskey

Investigative reporter, @onlinehyphen
@lucascumiskey.bsky.social
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🔴 NEW from Lucas Cumiskey: the first survey by Labour Muslim Network of hundreds of Muslim Labour MPs, councillors and mayors has found that the relationship between the party and British Muslims is at 'breaking point'. Full story 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/06/05/lab…

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Last night, MPs voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group while colleagues a few corridors away heard harrowing accounts from doctors of Gaza’s healthcare collapse. Lucas Cumiskey reports⬇️ hyphenonline.com/2025/07/03/pal…

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🌹Has Labour repaired its relationship with British Muslims? A year on from Starmer's landslide election win, my Hyphen colleague Samir Jeraj 🇰🇪 🇮🇪 has spoken to a dozen Muslim Labour figures to gauge the mood within the party. Well worth a read! 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/07/04/lab…

ICJP (🦋: icjpalestine.com) (@icjpalestine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Whilst ICJP and Labour Muslim Network were hosting doctors in parliament sharing their testimonies of volunteering in Gaza, MPs were voting to proscribe @Pal_action only corridors away. You can read a full write up of our parliamentary event below ⬇️ hyphenonline.com/2025/07/03/pal…

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🗣️Muslims in Rotherham, one of the English towns worst hit by racist rioting last summer, have told focus groups run by Hyphen they still fear for their safety a year on. Special report by عائشة 👇 hyphenonline.com/2025/07/28/mus…

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🗓️ A year after rioters targeted Southport’s only Muslim prayer space, worshippers are optimistic but wary of the threat from the far right, Hyphen editor Burhan Wazir reports. You can read his brilliant piece, here 👇hyphenonline.com/2025/07/28/sou…

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🔴 An anonymous US-based X account that MPs said played a key role in spreading the lies that fuelled last year's riots is still initiating disinformation campaigns against British Muslims, Hyphen's investigations chief Lucas Cumiskey has found. 1/

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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’. ✍🏻Lucas Cumiskey Illo: Michelle Thompson hyphenonline.com/2025/07/30/end…

Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Important article by Lucas Cumiskey for Hyphen - Overseas X accounts that fuelled 2024 riots still targeting UK Muslims - hyphenonline.com/2025/07/30/end… #disinformation

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Hyphen is delighted to announce that Zahra Onsori (Zahra) has joined us as our 2025 journalism fellow in partnership with the Aziz Foundation. She has a special interest in underrepresented communities and health and wellbeing stories. We're thrilled to have her on the team🎉

Chi Onwurah 💙 (@chionwurah) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In July, Science, Innovation and Technology Committee found the #OnlineSafetyAct doesn't address the algorithmic amplification of misinformation used to fuel harm during the unrest last summer. Read Hyphen’s piece on how the same X accounts still target UK Muslims: hyphenonline.com/2025/07/30/end…

Anneliese Dodds (@anneliesedodds) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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 Hyphen & Lucas Cumiskey for this important and concerning investigation

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🚨 We’re trying something different. Join us as we launch our brand new YouTube channel, where we make politics more engaging, more accessible, and less f***ing boring! Subscribe: youtube.com/@AliMilaniLive

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Everyone has a story about watching Sholay for the first time. Thanks to everyone who participated by sharing some great memories with me. Hyphen #Bollywood

Shehab Khan ITV (@shehabkhan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Latest figures show the number of asylum seekers in hotels is now 32,059. Labour has pledged to stop using hotels to house those seeking asylum by 2029 but the recent Asylum hotel ruling in Epping has left ministers with a HUGE headache.