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WEEKLY WANKER #077: SERCO

July 31, 2018by Leon Trollsky Leave a comment

Serco are famously the biggest company you’ve never heard of – the outsourcing giant who run everything from HMP Kilmarnock to our nuclear deterrent (well, one-third of it), the Orkney […]

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Did the Daily Record Force a Syrian Refugee Family to Flee their Scottish Home?

October 12, 2017by Admin Leave a comment

“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 […]

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WEEKLY WANKER #073: AMBER RUDD

February 15, 2017by Juan Mac Leave a comment

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 […]

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Glasgow joins protests against the #MuslimBan

January 31, 2017by Juan Mac 3 Comments

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 […]

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Victory! Renfrewshire Council Rejects Plan for New Detention Centre

November 9, 2016by Admin 1 Comment

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 […]

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Revealed: Plans for Scotland’s New Migrant Detention Facility

September 30, 2016by Admin Leave a comment

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 […]

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