“We like to think of ourselves as a welcoming country,” gushed a Daily Record editorial back in November 2015, just as the refugee crisis was topping the news agenda and as the clamour […]
When Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, announced the Government had abandoned plans to provide refuge for thousands of children, I was going to point to this as an example of the […]
This weekend saw chaos across US airports, as Donald Trump’s Executive Order on migration came into effect. The order halts the US refugee programme for 120 days, indefinitely bans all […]
Guest post by Red Spex Anti-detention campaigners yesterday won a sensational victory at a meeting held by the planning committee of Renfrewshire Council. Although this meeting was only the first […]
The announcement that the Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre, near Strathaven in South Lanarkshire, will close permanently next year was met with a muted reception by refugee rights campaigners. The former hunting […]
When the UK’s first planeload of Syrian refugees landed at Glasgow Airport last December, it sparked a small media frenzy. Since then, however, most of the 400 refugees who have […]
A Guest Post by Tangerine Dream It’s been two weeks since the horrific attacks in Paris and there’s been an ugly racist backlash against Muslims living in the west and […]
