Peter Richardson

Peter Richardson is a freelance writer and former director of Leeds Asylum Seekers' Support Network. Find him on Twitter: @viewsofworld

British press poisons minds against asylum seekers

How the Daily Telegraph twisted an official audit of a botched privatisation . . . to smear and defame asylum-seekers.

By Peter Richardson

/ 13 Jan 2014

Mark Harper, it's your asylum system that's 'not credible and ridiculous'

The UK immigration minister Mark Harper mocked an Iraqi asylum-seeker on national television. Expert witnesses discover time and again that the Home Office fails honourable people who have valid claims for asylum.

By Peter Richardson

/ 15 Nov 2013