This year, on 13 April, nearly half a million Sikhs in the United Kingdom celebrated Vaisakhi, the most important day in the Sikh calendar. It was on 13 April 1699 that the tenth guru, Guru Gobind Singh, laid down the foundations for the Khalsa movement - a collective body of...

So we have received the news that Richard III fans have been waiting for. The skeletal remains found last year in Greyfriars car park in my Leicester South constituency are indeed those of Richard III, the last Plantagenet King of England.

It was a truly historic day for the city...

Imagine if, this evening, the entire population of the United States, Canada, Australia, Britain and the rest of Europe were going to bed hungry. And not just tonight, but one week after another. There would be media outrage and people in the streets. Every international meeting, every Prime Minister's Questions,...

Burma's Rohingya people have been subjected to devastating sectarian violence with homes destroyed, families displaces and many killed. In response the Burmese government failed to end the cycles of violence and indeed arguably perpetuated it. And last month witnessed a new wave of violence in the Rakhine State in Burma.

This week I secured a debate in Westminster Hall on the plight of the Rohingya communities in Burma. This past summer over of the course of several weeks, horrific and ugly sectarian violence broke about between the majority Buddhist Rakhine community and the minority muslim Rohingya community in the Rakhine...

Over 3000 Muslim athletes competed in the Olympics earlier this summer and at the same time it was Ramadan. Like thousands of my constituents in Leicester, many of those athletes will have observed the fast.

With this in mind this year I wanted to make an effort to appreciate Ramadan...