Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says assessing a Labour leader whose mission was to smash the left must involve addressing the delusions that fuelled his rise
Suna Alan: I am a Kurdish/Alevi singer based in London. I was born in the mountainous province of Cewlik (Bingol), an ancient Kurdish and Armenian province in Northern Kurdistan (officially Turkey). I’m the fifth of the seven siblings. When I was two years old, the family left the village due to the conflict and settled in Izmir on Turkey’s west coast.
Moving to Izmir in my early childhood meant that much of my formative years were spent surrounded by traditional Kurdish dengbej (“bard”) music and Kurdish-Alevi laments within a rich cosmopolitan cultural environment.
Steve Sweeney: How and when did you start singing? Is it something that runs in the family?
BEN COWLES samples the many sonic and social therapies of Manchester Punk Festival 2026, and is ready again to smash capitalism
As part of the 2025 London Jazz Festival Rich Mix offered intriguing sessions titled 'Persian Jazz,' CHRIS SEARLE was there
DAI O’BRIEN, one of the festival’s DeafZone co-ordinators explains
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Ethiopian vocalist SOFIA JERNBERG


