Latest articles from Uzma Mir

Uzma Mir: Being woke is something to celebrate not denigrate

GOOD news for us wokies. The president of that well-known pit of leftiness, the Girls’ School Association, has said in a speech to her fellow heidies that they should actively challenge those who “dismiss this generation as woke, being part of a cancel culture or snowflakes.”

Uzma Mir: I meant to spend Saturday tidying the house instead I'm so glad I went on climate march

I DIDN’T wake up on Saturday planning to, but three hours later I found myself slipping through the mud, jumping over puddles in the sheeting rain at Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park waiting, along with several thousand people for the climate march to begin. I had planned on vacuuming, tidying and a bit of cushion-plumping. You know, the usual middle-aged, Covid Saturday fare. The kids were away and I had the house to myself but some days you surprise yourself – those are the best days.

Uzma Mir: How sport can bring even the most bitter enemies together

IN an intense rivalry that could easily put the Old Firm in the shade, two giants of the cricketing world, India and Pakistan, squared up to each other on Sunday in the Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup in the UAE. Pakistan in their trademark emerald green, and India in a Rangersy royal blue.

Uzma Mir: Will the end of lockdown bring a wave of extremist violence?

AS we come blinking out of the Covid restrictions, with or without our vaccine passports, there is a concern, continuously voiced by police and security experts, that the boredom associated with the long months in lockdown will have proven to be fertile ground for those seeking to radicalise vulnerable people online.

Uzma Mir: Help! I'm living through Menopause: The Sequel

THEY are back. Like an unwelcome, alt-right, second cousin twice removed who lives abroad but who thankfully hasn’t been able to visit for 18 months because of the pandemic. The random sweats or hot flushes, so much part and parcel of my early fifties, have returned.