Latest editorial
A STUDENT leader was facing imminent deportation yesterday, just 24 hours after being elected to represent refugees for the National Union of Students (NUS).
Elias Apetsi (pictured), who goes by the name of Lord, failed to turn up at this weekend’s NUS Scotland annual conference, where he was elected the union’s new officer for asylum-seekers and refugees.
Shortly after his victory was announced, fellow students found out that Mr Apetsi had been detained in Glasgow a few days earlier and was being held at a centre in Oxford.
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
Davy Russell cornered over previous jobs
As Starmer flies to Albania seeking deportation camps while praising Giorgia Meloni, KEVIN OVENDEN warns that without massive campaigns rejecting this new overt government xenophobia, Britain faces a soaring hard right and emboldened fascist thugs on the streets