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A time for Hope and Joy
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN The collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal regime in Syria earlier this month was greeted with celebrations across a country fractured by 13 years of civil war. The Assad…
Syrian Resettlement: “Working Brilliantly”, Says Project Co-ordinator
Simon Finlay, Project Co-ordinator of the Syrian Resettlement Programme at Hastings Borough Council, seems a happy man these days. He has spent half a lifetime working for organisations that have…
The Refugee Experience: A Two-tier System
In September 2015, the then Prime Minister David Cameron pledged that the UK would welcome 20,000 refugees from camps on the borders of Syria over the next five years. The…
Brexiteers, Bremainians and Blairites
by Alan Bolwell (Image by Catrin Austin) As tensions run unusual high in the political climate all sides are scrambling to prepare for a general election that could come as…
Panama Papers – It’s laws and treaties that are the problem, not the tax avoiders
British Virgin Islands, Tax Haven Tax avoidance is legal. Google “offshore investment” and the results are a ‘how to’ of investing: ‘you don’t have to be a millionaire to be…
God Save The Queen
I don’t know about you but the other week I had a Sex Pistols earworm for several days; “God save the queen, The fascist regime…” which was, of course due…