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The New Immigration Plan CONSULTATION ENDS 6th May 2021

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Please consider responding to the governments 6 week Consultation on the most wide-ranging changes to the immigration system in the UK which seeks to remove rights from those seeking asylum and increase the use of detention centres and considers removal to the third country whilst claims are being considered. Enter a response to the Consultation […]

St Paul’s Cray: Racist slogans on bus stops say ‘Vote Fox’

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Read article by Euan O’Byrne Mulligan on Newshopper website here  A life-long Orpington resident “felt sick” after discovering racist slogans graffitied on two bus stops in St Paul’s Cray. Paula Peters, 49, noticed ‘KKK’, ‘STAY WHITE’ ‘NO KNEE’ and ‘VOTE FOX’, an apparent reference to the mayoral candidate, written on Ravenscourt Road shelters as she travelled […]

Syriza’s Road to Ruin by Costas Isychos

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Five years ago Syriza won the Greek elections and raised the hopes of the European Left. Costas Isychos, a minister in their first government, explains why the party’s socialist ambitions evaporated. When the results of the parliamentary elections were announced on 25 January 2015, all eyes were on Greece. For the first time, a party of […]

Priti Patel’s detention policies found to breach human rights rules

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A landmark court ruling has held the home secretary, Priti Patel, accountable for failures in ensuring that deaths in immigration detention centres are properly investigated. Two judges in the immigration court ruled on Wednesday that three of the home secretary’s detention policies breached human rights rules and that she could not frustrate or undermine inquiries into […]

Racist Cambridge graduate found with ‘anarchist cookbook’ showing how to make bombs said he wanted to go ‘on killing spree’, trial hears

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Oliver Bel, of Salford, bought the ‘manual’ online, which contained methods of creating homemade bombs, a court was told. Mr Bel, 24, came to the attention of the Counter Terrorism Unit in Cambridge after his tutor reported the anti-Semitic remarks he posted online, Manchester Crown Court heard. Jurors were told that in a Facebook post, […]

50th Anniversary of the 1st World Romani Congress

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On 8th April 2021, the World Romani Congress will mark 50 years since the 1971 founding event in London. The online congress will start on April 8th and will be stretched over a month starting in London and moving to Berlin joining cities as far apart as Belgrade and Buenos Aires, activists from Barcelona to […]