Behind the smokescreen of inaccurate economic figures and scare stories, the political decisions being taken by the Coalition are largely about legitimising xenophobia to cover the ineptitude of the ruling class.
The government's immigration Bill is dehumanising, divisive, callous and unwarranted. We all have a duty to oppose it.
Illuminating the huge gap between perceptions and reality. A report on research by Ipsos Mori for Unbound Philanthropy.
For centuries, much of Europe was integrated into a vast African empire. Yet we refuse to fully understand our history. For this tradition of not knowing the West is paying a price it has not yet begun to calculate.
The migrant NHS plans are just the first and politically easiest step to ending a 'free at the point of use' NHS.
The new Immigration Bill introduces hefty charges for migrants to use the NHS. It is a costly, wrong-headed insult to the migrants - like my father - on whom the NHS has always relied.
Does solidarity break down with multiculturalism? And if so, how can we respond? Rumy Hasan reviews The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration by David Goodhart.
The exploitation of the Irish economy during the potato famine caused widespread devastation. With the justification of overpopulation, to what extent does David Attenborough echo these intentions in the present day?
Politicians and the press are locked in a cycle of increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, presented as 'uncomfortable truth'. Yet the problem is not immigration but socio-economic inequality. Poverty and exclusion are faced by working class people of all backgrounds.
Almost everyone from lawyers and healthcare experts to trade unions is telling government their proposals to charge migrants for healthcare are flawed - but will they listen?
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 It is the main parties that are responsible for the public’s increasingly hardening attitude, not the Daily Mail and UKIP.
