Edy Cosmas, is gay, black and from Tanzania. For these reasons, he’s currently being held in a detention centre next to Heathrow airport Edy is also a gay rights and an active member of a civil rights group based in London. Taking its name from a speech by Martin Luther King, the ‘Movement for Justice [...]
Guest post by Roland Miller McCall Australia went to the polls today after the most mundane election campaigns anyone can remember. Neither Labor nor the Coalition opposition has engaged with the big issues nor proposed a vision for Australia’s future. In recent days the debate has descended into high farce with the defining issue of [...]
Nine years after Oldham burned in horrific race-riots, we’re finally getting round to the only workable solution to racial segregation. The report into the incident concluded that de facto segregation in the community was a root cause of the incident, and a more recent report stated that “Segregation and divisions between Oldham’s communities is still [...]
As if we didn’t already have enough homegrown far-right activists in this country, it seems they are now emigrating here. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/pauline-hanson-to-emigrate-to-uk-report-20100215-nzq0.html I only hope Pauline Hanson appreciates the irony…
In what I hope to be the final update on the case of Dana Ali, which I began reporting on in August, Dana has won his campaign and has finally been given leave to remain in the UK. He has a job lined up and I’m sure he is keen to start working and building [...]
Declining newspaper sales are not a crisis for journalism, but an opportunity to save it There’s a crisis in print journalism. Newspaper sales across the board are facing an inexorable decline. Worst affected, with the notable exception of the Daily Mail, are the tabloids. The Mirror, once the country’s best selling paper, has seen its [...]
Since the successful campaign to secure Dana’s release from Oakington detention centre last month, he has been tagged and living under curfew, unable even to go into his backyard for a cigarette after 8pm. However, it seems the Home Office has finally taken note of his case. Yesterday Dana was told to go down to [...]
Guest post by Oli The government’s chief legal adviser, Attourney General Patricia Scotland, was fined £5000 today and forced to make a public apology for employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper. Sad to say, I first discovered this story via the front page of the Daily Mail. That a positive case for immigration is [...]
There’s an American blog I read from time to time that goes by the name of Gin and Tacos. It has an irregular feature entitled FJM, in which the author takes egregiously stupid comment articles and systematically destroys them for the edification of his readers. (FJM stands for Fire Joe Morgan, a now-defunct baseball blog [...]
Last week, I reported on the case of Dana Ali, an Iraqi immigrant being held in Oakington detention centre because of an apparent Home Office mix-up in his paperwork. Tonight, Dana has been released and has been allowed to return home while his case is considered. He has not yet been granted leave to remain [...]
