50 years ago, I along with roughly 28,000 Ugandan Asians arrived in the UK after being forced out of Uganda by President Idi Amin. What now seems like a lifetime ago, was a very real and uncertain future for Ugandans. My early days started in...
On 15th August the whole of India, and Indians across the world will celebrate Independence Day. I have always been troubled by this notion of ‘Independence Day’ and the associated celebrations. I ask myself what is it that we are celebrating?
Considering the recent spike in Covid infections, Downing Street confirmed it is keeping tabs on the two Omicron variant spin-offs that might be responsible for the spike. Also, Boris Johnson's spokesman claimed that the situation is being monitored...
British celebrities including Sophie Okonedo and David Harewood have urged Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda to oppose the UK’s plan to deport refugees to the country. The celebrities said it shows a “colonial view” of Africa as a “dumping ground”.
Campaigning organisation Refugees for Justice called for a review in the wake of stabbings at the Park Inn hotel in Glasgow which was being used to house asylum seekers during lockdown in 2020.0
The impact of the Brexit measure to ban European arrivals from using identity cards as “catastrophic”, a leading travel industry figure described.
Bianca Artwell, 30, from Rugby in Warwickshire, who suffers from a condition which affects her nervous system called Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), was forced to wet herself in the middle of River Island after staff did not let her...
While negotiating a trade deal with Gulf states, the government has quietly dropped “human rights” and the “rule of law” from its list of objectives.
Large summer events could see Covid cases rise even higher as the UK is fighting a fifth wave of Covid as infections soar, experts have warned.
On the final day of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the UK committed a further £217 million for three major education projects across Commonwealth countries on Saturday. The funding is being done to support global education data...