WEEKLY WANKER #077: SERCO
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 […]
Tag Archives: refugees
Did the Daily Record Force a Syrian Refugee Family to Flee their Scottish Home?
“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 […]
WEEKLY WANKER #073: AMBER RUDD
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 […]
Glasgow joins protests against the #MuslimBan
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 […]
Victory! Renfrewshire Council Rejects Plan for New Detention Centre
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 […]
Revealed: Plans for Scotland’s New Migrant Detention Facility
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 […]
Calling Bullshit on the Daily Mail’s Terrible Coverage of Bute’s Syrian Refugees
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 […]
