BBC licence fee which has just gone up by £3 a year is and has always been in the news for a long time. Now the political opinion is that it should be scrapped by 2025 if not earlier. The main reason put forward is that younger generation hardly...
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20th Sep 2026 | Updated at 05:06pm 20th Sep 2026
Beyond university: Why apprenticeships deserve a place on every student’s radar
- 27 Aug 2026
For generations, the path after A-levels seemed almost predetermined: achieve good grades, secure a university place and spend three years working towards a degree before entering the world of work.
A lighter look at racism in Britain
An astute observer of British life once said: “If you see a white man dashing down the street, he is running to catch a bus. If it’s a black man sprinting, he must be running away from the police.”
The introduction of the CAA and related changes in India have sparked significant emotions on all sides of the political spectrum in India and outside. Every country has a sovereign right to protect its borders and to choose who it lets in,...
The other day I went to mail a Christmas card to a non-Christian friend. After applying the stamp, I requested the postal clerk Indra ( Hindu immigrant from Sri Lanka) to write the name of my daughter Aarti Patel on a Secret Santa gift card...
I read your recollections in your A.V of 25th January with great interest about your first Republic Day celebrations. It has stimulated my recollections some what similar that I wish to share with you and your readers if I may.
Open letter for Neil Woodford and Craig Newman,
The cost of HS2, 106 billion pounds is ludicrous amount to invent. This is for the benefit of few. If the same amount is split between NHS, Education and in improving existing railway tracks, it would benefit all.
While reading the latest edition of Asian Voice, I was shocked to read about British Pakistanis’ latest protest at the Indian High Commission on 26th January. This doesn’t seem to stop! British Pakistanis have shown so much disrespect to Indians...
I was pleased to read the contribution made by Mr B S Grewal on our Republic Day Celebration by bravely facing the protesters at the Indian High Commission. I fully endorse his sentiments that more of us need to be active and counter any anti...
Those who have long memories, going back to early sixties when some of us seek shelter in this far away shores, leaving behind idealistic life in sunny East Africa, will remember how much this country has changed in the last few decades, not...
It made pleasant reading in Asian Voice regarding the latest honours list, not by Her Majesty’s Government but by Indian government honouring my two favourite Members of Parliament, MP Barry Gardiner and Bob Blackman who both received much acclaimed...
