immigration

  • Should We Stay Or Should We Go?

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    March 7, 2016 22:28
    With the EU referendum set for June 23rd, the In and Out (Brexit) campaigns are working overtime to convince the British public to vote their way. However, a large percentage of people still have no idea how or which way they should vote. To help you make your mind...

  • Out with the Farage

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    December 24, 2015 17:52
    “We need a fresh face.” These were the words that UKIP’s one and only MP, Douglas Carswell, uttered just last Friday. He was of course talking about his desire for a change in the party’s leadership; out with the Farage and in with the new. He was always a...

  • Students protest for open borders in Calais and Dover

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    October 17, 2015 13:40
    Demonstrations took place in Dover and Calais on Saturday 17th October, as students and activists stood up for migrants in Calais and continental Europe. On Saturday 17th October, students from across the country, including cities such as Birmingham, Sussex and London, gathered in Dover and Calais to hold parallel...

  • Theresa May: Nationalism’s New Hero

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    October 11, 2015 09:31
    This week Tommy Robinson, former leader of the Community Service stampede that is the English Defence League, is to speak at the Durham Union. This is a serious departure for a man who changed his name from Stephen Lennon, presumably because it didn’t sound racist enough. With the EDL...

  • Debates, dubious polls and rampant negativity: what can we expect from the general election campaign?

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    April 25, 2015 13:00
    ‘Am I tough enough? Hell yes I am’ were the words of one confident Miliband last Thursday. Facing the charming but venomous Jeremy Paxman, Ed Miliband was stronger than his rival David Cameron, arguing chiefly of the importance in his polices of improving the living standards of ordinary workers....

  • In the debate about immigration, we have forgotten compassion

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    February 6, 2015 12:48
    Perhaps understandably in the run-up to the general election, the immigration debate has been gaining a lot of traction. Looking at its increased representation in the media, combined with a recent trip to Liverpool’s International Slavery museum, has led to some conclusions on my part: Fundamentally, all parties to...

  • Who are the real benefit scroungers? It might be the UK

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    February 3, 2015 12:59
    Some anti-immigration parties might be in for a shock this week when they discover that UK citizens are claiming more unemployment benefits in some European countries, than those countries’ citizens are claiming in the UK. It exposes the harsh truth that Britain can be a bit of an immigration...