Iraqi immigrant, Dana Ali, faces deportation after an alleged Home Office blunder fails to recognise his marriage to a British citizen. Dana Ali was born in 1975. He grew up in Halabja, the Kurdish town in northern Iraq that the world first heard about on March 16th 1988 when 5,000 people were massacred by Saddam [...]
You’d be forgiven for thinking Iraq is a peaceful place. It rarely occupies the British media these days. Only a couple of years ago, whilst Afghanistan was taking a back seat, barely a day went by without headlines of dozens killed by suicide bombs. These days, suicide is painless. On the same day that every [...]
To many of my generation, who were born in Thatcher’s Britain and whose politics were shaped by the stark reminder one morning in September 2001 that history was far from over, Tony Benn is a hero. It was another left-wing icon, Bob Dylan, who described a hero as “someone who understands the degree of responsibility [...]
After one of the costliest weeks for British forces in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown argued today that the ongoing campaign is a “patriotic duty” to keep the streets of Britain safe. “It comes back to terrorism on the streets of Britain,” he said. “If we were to allow the Taliban to be back in power in [...]
It is an absolute travesty of justice that the man who was almost single-handedly responsible for a war that has claimed the lives of as many as a million Iraqis can look forward to a healthy presidential pension, while a man who did nothing more than throw his shoes at this person will be rotting [...]
