Grandfather who served with Grenadier Guards after family fled Nazis refused British passport
Tadeusz Polanski was seven years old when his parents moved from Poland to the UK
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Major study of 200k Brits reveals Remain would win in second referendum
The majority of Brits would vote to remain in the EU if another referendum were held next week. A major UK-wide survey of more than 200,000 people revealed that a significant majority want the UK to stay in the European single market and believe Britain will be economically worse off outside ...
Almost half of all Brits now admit they struggle to make ends meet
The shocking findings, from a survey of 2,000 UK adults, revealed 43 per cent are short of the cash they need to pay the bills an average of seven months each year.
David Grossman’s full moving speech to Palestinians and Israelis mourning together on Memorial Day
“Within the pain there is also breath, creation, doing good" - Israeli author David Grossman lost a son in the Lebanon War 2006. This is his moving address to 8,000 Israelis and Palestinians bridging the divide between them to mourn together their lost loved ones on Memorial Day. David Grossman ...
The skeletons of Britain’s colonial past have resurfaced again
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Aid workers describe the despair of Syria’s displacement camps
Aid workers in Syria say the situation for the families in the camps is "tragic" with serious doubts cast over the effectiveness of US-led strikes in ending the conflict in the region. According to workers in Northern Syria, who have been talking to families who have fled the country’s war zones, ...
Sending £1bn Royal Navy ship order overseas “Betrayal of May’s Red, White and Blue Brexit”
Shipyards in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, South Korea and Spain now eyeing up critical defence contract, GMB investigation reveals GMB, the union for shipbuilding workers, today said in the aftermath of the blue passports fiasco, Ministers must reverse their decision to put a crucial £1 billion order for three ...
Notorious spycop at the centre of Stephen Lawrence Inquiry is finally revealed. Now can we tackle state racism?
This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry finally releases the cover name used by the most notorious of the police spies that infiltrated anti-racist organisations during the explosion of anger sparked by the murder of Stephen Lawrence, and at the time of the subsequent Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. This officer, referred to ...
Windrush scandal: A father was denied passport and forced to miss daughter’s wedding because ‘he doesn’t exist’
A man born to parents who came to the UK on the Empire Windrush has been forced to miss his daughter's wedding - because he has been denied a British passport. Joseph Bravo, who has lived in the UK for 54 years, says he was unable to travel to daughter ...