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The human rights act dictates that the UK is obliged to protect asylum seekers. So why is the home secretary ignoring it?
Those lefty do-good lawyers Johnson and Patel are so concerned about are a vital part of parliamentary democracy based on the rule of law. This is precisely why they continue to denigrate them.
What’s really going when the home secretary gets out her map of far-flung British territories?
This is a system that will likely become even worse given the impact of Brexit and the backlog of cases created by the pandemic.
Talk of an ‘invasion’ is exactly what prevents meaningful action.
At times of economic crisis, our feelings towards migrants can become hardened.
With normal routes disrupted by the pandemic, more people are driven to dangerous tactics.
Local lockdowns in Italy and Germany have led to civil unrest. Could the same happen in the UK?
After years of inaction by authorities, protesters have forced the point – opening a new chapter in this monument’s history.
Many patients with COVID-19 are suffering, unnecessarily.
When an election looms, some politicians reach for the easy ‘crackdown’ on Travellers and Gypsies to win over core voters.
Police crackdown operations are likely to exacerbate the structural inequalities that can influence criminality in the first place.
It took more than one person to bring down the Roman Empire, but the moral decay started somewhere.
The writing was on the wall for the international development secretary as soon as she got on that aeroplane.
When the DfID minister held secret meetings with government officials while on holiday, she seems to have forgotten about her quest to stamp out dodgy dealings in development spending.
Options are open for how to spend £1.4 billion of British aid channelled through EU.
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