There is a dangerous disconnect: on Gaza, politics no longer speaks for the people | Gaby Hinsliff

The government now faces a daunting task to show that society’s concerns can be reflected. It will need to do better than this

It was meant to be a cosy conversation about cooking and new motherhood.

But BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour took an unexpectedly bleak turn on Thursday morning, when the chef Yasmin Khan turned suddenly tearful in the middle of promoting her new cookbook, saying she couldn’t talk about her own struggles to breastfeed without mentioning the mothers in Gaza unable to provide for their literally starving babies.

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