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Published in: Shine A LightWhy Britain’s refugees and asylum seekers have little to cheer about: a reply to Tim FinchA reply to a piece highlighting the positive aspects of British asylum policy and politics, by a former Chair of...
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Published in: Shine A LightLetter from Australia to Britain: Trading in human misery - immigration and the "Malaysian solution"
Australia’s detention regime offers an ugly vision of where UK asylum policy may be headed
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Published in: Shine A LightThe Human Cost of "War on Drugs"
50 years of criminalisation of drugs and 40 years of blatant failure of “war on drugs” has only made the problem...
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Published in: Shine A LightPFI: transferring billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers
The Private Finance Initiative has recklessly transferred billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers. Now...
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Published in: Shine A LightReasons to be cheerful: 10 things to celebrate during refugee week
Surviving persecution, fleeing across continents– for most of us these experiences are unimaginable. But as history...
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Published in: Shine A LightCocaine UnwrappedInterviewing Latin American leaders and victims of repressive policy, film-maker Rachel Seifert argues that the West...
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Published in: Shine A LightSaving the NHS: the fight goes on
Despite the deluge of coverage in England about the fate if its National Health Service there is a lack of alertness...
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Published in: Shine A LightTactical Questioning: Scenes from the Baha Mousa Enquiry
A review of Tricycle Theatre's dramatisation of the public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, an innocent Iraqi...
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Published in: Shine A LightBeating the Retreat: how much longer for Britain’s child soldiers?
As the Armed Forces Bill reaches its final stages, we have one last chance to stop Britain recruiting under 18s
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Published in: Shine A LightDuty of Care: beyond the case of Mr Ward, cooked to death by gigantic outsourcer G4SThe horrible death of a respected Aboriginal elder casts doubt upon often-unchallenged assumptions about the virtues...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe NHS Bill: take action on an unprecedented pause
Professor Wendy Savage argues that the pause in the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill, which claims to...
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Published in: Shine A LightUnique Britain
Startling wage inequality, shocking child poverty, but thankfully – to date - low support for fascism. Danny Dorling...
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Published in: Shine A LightFast track to despair
In the UK, people lose their liberty simply for claiming asylum. On the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention,...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe UK continues to detain children, a year after the Coalition's pledge to end it
A year ago, the Coalition pledged to end the practice of child detention in the UK. Yet the real agenda of the UK...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe coordinated attack on multiculturalism
Centre-right parties across Europe are announcing the failure of multiculturalism. We are witnessing a co-ordinated...
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Published in: Shine A LightJustice for asylum seekers in the UK?
Proposals to reform legal aid in the UK will leave asylum seekers ever more dependent on the good will of solicitors...
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Published in: Shine A LightCameron says immigrants must integrate, while cutting funding for English classes
In Cameron's speech on immigration yesterday, he said that real integration takes time. James Lee of the Refugee...
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Published in: Shine A LightDetaining children is not a necessary evil, despite the Coalition's approach
The Coalition’s justification for continuing to detain families with children is that otherwise they will abscond....
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Published in: Shine A LightOranges and Sunshine: children's charity Barnardo's must learn from past mistakes
The film 'Oranges and Sunshine' tells of the thousands of British children forced into migration to the Commonwealth...
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Published in: Shine A LightIs Barnardo's legitimising child detention in the UK?
Children's charity Barnardo's has agreed to work with the UK Border Agency in a planned immigration detention...