Category: UK
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Britain’s love affair with pro-Kremlin oligarchs
ANALYSIS London is a city designed for the rich. Those that have visited the city know that prices are exorbitantly high; beware of going for a pint, you may soon find yourself looking apologetically at your bank account. While the ordinary citizen struggles to maintain a decent standard of living, the wealthiest members of our…
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‘We cannot afford to be onlookers’: Holocaust survivor recalls horrors of genocide, and warns of repeated failures
CN: the Holocaust, genocide, antisemitism, torture, trauma, war INTERVIEW As the world marks 77 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors becomes more and more apparent. With it, the burden of responsibility to preserve and honour the truth of what happened to Europe’s Jews falls on allies and those among…
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The Nationality and Borders Bill is a threat to human life
OPINION A moral and ethical debate has been stirred across the UK in the wake of the Nationality and Borders Bill that passed the House of Commons in December 2021 and is currently in the Committee Stage in the House of Lords. The bill drastically redesigns the UK’s asylum system by implementing catastrophic barriers for…
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‘The PRC must know it will pay for its crimes’: calls mount for diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics in Beijing
CN: genocide, torture, genocide denial INTERVIEW In just over a month’s time, Beijing will attempt to pull off its biggest PR stunt yet when it welcomes the world’s athletes to its Winter Olympics in February 2022. Ostentatious ceremonies, bright lights and smiling faces will play their familiar role in dazzling audiences through their television screens.…
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The Domestic Abuse Act does not go far enough in protecting women and gender minorities
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of misogyny, violence against women, transphobic abuse, queerphobia and domestic violence OPINION Domestic abuse is endemic in UK society, with women and gender minorities being disproportionately affected. The latest Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW) shows that in 2018/2019 an estimated 1.8 million women…
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Divisive politics and Northern Ireland’s obsession with flags
Support Politika News on Patreon. OPINION Northern Irish citizens, whichever side of the political spectrum they find themselves on, have an undeniably unhealthy obsession with flags, or ‘flegs’. While these pieces of coloured cloth are used as symbols of cultural or political identity the world over, in few places have they provoked such controversy and…
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‘Migration should not be labelled a crisis’: SolidariTee founder talks to Politika News about the realities behind Lesvos
Support Politika News on Patreon. CN: this article contains discussion of anti-refugee violence and xenophobia INTERVIEW Despite the decrease in the number of refugees arriving at Greek islands such as Lesvos, last year saw a rise in the number of recorded dead and missing refugees in the Aegean. Meanwhile, Greece faces another lawsuit in the…
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£13,000 per refugee in TUI-Home Office deportation contract: an interview with SOAS Detainee Support
Support Politika News on Patreon PODCAST CN: this interview discusses deportation, the mistreatment of refugees, and trauma Last year, TUI Airways, the UK subsidiary of the German airline, TUI, became the UK’s top deportation profiteer after signing a deportation contract with the Home Office in November 2020. TUI executive chairman, Friedrich Joussen, earned €1.7 million…