Honouring Sir Gerald Kaufman MP who has died aged 86, many tributes today mention the pugnacity as well as intellectual might, influence, length of career, kindness and concern for those most marginalised by society of the outspoken former frontbencher. The controversial Labour was unafraid to tell truth to power even ...
“Aliens pouring into our country”. “The Swarm on our streets.” The first is a Daily Mail headline from 1938 and the second is from the same newspaper in 2016. Following two visits to the Calais 'jungle' last year I was struck by the numbers of unaccompanied children and young people I saw there. They were ...
A 15ft structure has been erected outside a home office building ahead of the latest arrival of child refugees from Calais to London. White sheeting was put up in front of scaffolding in order to screen any arrivals from waiting photographers after many of the first arrivals appeared to be older ...
Nicolas Sarkozy is aiming to be re-elected as the French president next year and has been appealing to French populism, in a country reeling from a number of sickening terrorist attacks. Last week, as he launched his election campaign, he said he would make the burkini ban nationwide, even if ...
In the previous three years over 27,800 people have been arrested on suspicion of trying to enter Britain illegally. The figures were reported by the BBC and indicate the huge numbers of people trying to find their way onto UK shores and the strain they are putting on security services. ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor A row has broken out in parliament as child refugees who will now be given access to the UK, “by the end of the year,” reports the Mirror. The Government has been attacked as this could mean a seven-month wait to come into Britain. Labour’s ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor George Osborne’s brother has been struck off after a two-year relationship with one of his own patients. Dr Adam Osborne had been treating her for anxiety and depression but became embroiled into a sexual relationship. The medical tribunal declared that his behaviour was ‘profoundly unacceptable” and ...
By Callum Towler Sometimes I watch PMQ’s as if it’s a dystopian pantomime, like if all the robots in Isaac Asimov's I, Robot defeated the people, but upheld democracy once a week in parliament just for a laugh. Witnessing David Cameron duck, dive and quip his way through the weekly ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor You can swim, march and fight your way to the UK border and then “live” in the jungle, but if you are the Amazon (see what I did there?) you can step right in and plunder our riches. Tax was issue of the day, well ...