BY ALEX STORY Dreams flee as reality makes an entrance. Piddington, a small village, the quintessence of old England, a few miles northeast of Oxford, was unceremoniously yanked out of its idyll by a manager bent on its destruction. Time, it seemed, had left the place alone. No change was needed. Its 358 population, nestled in the middle of nowhere, had no understandable desire to … Continue reading First Encounter With Reality
BY PAUL T HORGAN Deporting Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) is a rather hot topic connected with the overall issue of our current regime of unrestricted migration. The UK prison population has a disproportionate number of FNOs. They stay behind bars because there is a large and lucrative business model to keep them there. Immigration and Human Rights lawyers hold sway over the criminal justice system, … Continue reading The Moral Hazard of Deportation
BY NIALL McCRAE ‘Do not engage’ instructs a woman wearing a yellow vest. She is talking to two young male counter-protestors outside a hotel accommodating illegal immigrants. The independent journalist’s question ‘what brings you here today?’ goes unanswered, as they dutifully step back and put their masks on. Why so compliant? In all likelihood these are students, and they must do what they are told. … Continue reading Paid Counter-Protestors: A PR Disaster
BY NICK PEARCE The Status of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK: Implications of a Potential Conflict As discussions about national security and defence strategies rise in public discourse, the status of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK comes into sharp focus. With changing geopolitical dynamics, such as the heightened threat perceived from Russia, concerns about how the government may respond to these … Continue reading Will You Take up Arms for Us?
BY EFFIE DEANS In response to the regular demonstrations in the streets in London and elsewhere the government has come up with a definition of extremism that applies to everyone. I fully understand that this definition is only intended to prevent government agencies working with certain Islamic fundamentalist groups. In which case why not just stop them doing so. The government is under no obligation … Continue reading Failure to Control Our Borders is the Cause of Extremism
BY ALEX STORY Man is often more attached to his worldviews than to the world. Few examples illustrate this better than the leadership of the Communist Party in China. Indeed, the leaders of the Middle Kingdom implemented its one child policy in 1979 in part because the system they themselves created could not cope with population growth. By the time Mao died in 1976, 30 … Continue reading Attached to Self-Destruction
BY EFFIE DEANS I voted for Brexit mainly because I realised contrary to the Remain argument that leaving the EU would make Scottish independence all but impossible. EU membership encourages sub-national nationalism by allowing regions to argue that nothing much would change after independence. If the whole of Belgium is in the EU and ruled by Brussels, it matters little if Flanders and Wallonia separate. … Continue reading We Are Being Conned
BY EFFIE DEANS Should there be sovereign nation states with borders or should we reject that model of the world as archaic and cruel and work towards a world without borders where everyone is welcome and we share the resources of the world equally? Imagine if we could all live where we pleased, if there were no passports but we were all just citizens of … Continue reading The Government Does Not Want to Limit Immigration
BY DANIEL JUPP Home Secretary Priti Patel has supposedly authorised a turn back policy. Britain has seen an invasion of illegal Channel crossings with roughly 1,000 migrants landing illegally every day. These are the reported figures, so it’s likely higher. That’s 365,000 a year illegally entering the country. Most people want this stopped. A turn back policy is common sense and would limit attempts in … Continue reading Just Words?
BY NICK PEARCE Loyal translators and interpreters from Afghanistan who worked with British troops merited their flight out of Afghanistan to Britain. No question about it. But those British soldiers who toiled in Afghanistan know that many of those on the recent airlift to the UK didn’t work for us because they had our values and believed in our country – they did it for … Continue reading Afghan Arrivals Trash Accommodation
BY EFFIE DEANS There has been quite a lot of attention recently to people crossing the Channel in dinghies, but the story needs to be put in perspective. In 2019 612,000 people moved to the UK (immigration) while 385,000 left the UK (emigration). There were 34,000 asylum applications. So far this year about 4000 people have arrived by crossing the Channel. The number of people … Continue reading The Truth On Immigration
