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The Tories are whipping up racism to disguise catastrophic Covid failings
SABBY DHALU picks apart a centuries-old narrative that scapegoats BAME and refugee communities
Home Secretary Priti Patel onboard a police boat in Dover, the day after she appointed Dan Mahoney as the Clandestine Channel Threat Commander tasked with driving away refugees
CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities
It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
MAINSTREAM media headlines over the last week lead us to believe that the biggest crisis in Britain is that 900 people want to seek asylum here.
It would be nice if this was the case. It is easily resolved by simply allowing people to apply for asylum in Britain. A smaller and much poorer country like Lebanon which is the size of Cornwall, and currently gripped by a humanitarian and political crisis, has a population of 5.9 million people, and 1.5 million of them are refugees.
Lebanon hosts the largest number of refugees per capita, amounting to 25 per cent of its population and equivalent to Britain welcoming over 16 million refugees. Let that sink in.
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