Broadcaster’s sports coverage reduced to regurgitating old podcasts after cowardly decision to buckle to Tories’ manufactured outrage The BBC has pulled its entire Saturday afternoon Radio 5 Live sports schedule – and a big chunk of its morning programmes – as more and more presenters refuse to appear, in solidarity with Gary Lineker, who was […]
Refugees
In a democracy one might, naively, imagine that political deliberation would involve the presentation of the arguments that people think bear on the question at hand. That is, if someone is in favour of a policy they would present the arguments that they believe support it and if someone is against it they they would […]
Shadow Home Secretary sides with Tory horror occupying Home Office and condemns comparisons with 1930s race-hate – but this is not a blunder or an anomaly, rather an exposure of what the Labour right is Examples of Labour’s moral and political bankruptcy are coming thick and fast. Yesterday, Keir Starmer amplified the Tories’ racist narrative […]
Labour right-winger’s hypocrisy laid bare – there are always receipts Earlier today, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper sided with the Tories against football pundit Gary Lineker – and against desperate refugees – condemning Lineker for comparing the Tories’ inflammatory race-hate language about asylum-seeker boats to the fascist rhetoric of the 1930s, saying ‘I just don’t […]
Several initiatives highlight stories, narratives, and art performances that articulate the appeal of Pacific Island nations for a more decisive global action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The UK is a signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention, along with a number of other international instruments providing for humanitarian protection. The Convention provides that someone who is a refugee – a status that they have on the basis of their objective circumstances, having a well-founded fear of persecution on specific grounds and being […]
This rule will deny thousands of migrants fleeing persecution their right to seek asylum at the United States’ southern border.
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Labor’s announcement on permanent visas has been overshadowed by the fact that thousands of other refugees have been left in a hell of uncertainty.
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"It was very surreal for me to be in a place that for years I criticised from the offshore prisons."
‘Refugees are welcome here – fascism isn’t’, say crowds gathering to counter hate A large demonstration of Merseysides gathered in Knowsley this weekend at the Suites Knowsley hotel – the scene last week of far-right violence and hate toward refugees housed by the government at the hotel – to say loud and clear that refugees […]