BBC Radio 4’s Small Boat reveals our lack of empathy
Inspired by real transcripts, the programme focuses on the French navy radio operator who failed to send help to drowning…
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Shabana Mahmood is battling identity politics – on left and right
There is a nasty and racialised side to the attacks on the Home Secretary
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The painful human reality of the small-boats crisis
The migrants crossing the Channel are seeking a better life in Britain
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The truth about the small-boats crisis
What Nigel Farage won’t tell you
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Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats”
The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform
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How the small boats crisis convulsed Britain
With talk of mass deportations entering our politics, the victims of a broken system are being forgotten.
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Nigel Farage’s hollow, dangerous concern for women
Reform’s radical plans for mass deportations won’t make anyone safer.
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The public is right to care about small boat crossings
The halving of immigration this week can’t change the reality of the asylum system.
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Britain’s small boats obsession
Overcrowded dinghies used for desperate, dangerous crossings have become totemic in our toxic immigration conversation.
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Tragedy in the Channel shows the flaws of the Rwanda plan
The new policy will not put off migrants who are already prepared to risk their lives to reach the UK.
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Labour’s position on Europe is slowly emerging
Keir Starmer’s plan to reduce small-boat crossings is getting obscured by debates about closeness to the EU.
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“Stop the boats” is a delusion
Rishi Sunak has only just realised what we always knew.
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Rishi Sunak should take on the immigration fantasists
We need to end the cycle of unrealistic promises followed by cries of betrayal.
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Children’s commissioner demands data on child refugees from Suella Braverman
Rachel de Souza is calling for Home Office information on children arriving on small boats, and what happens to them…
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Would Rishi Sunak win a fight over competence?
Labour advisers fear the Conservatives have the crucial advantage of actually being able to do things.
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Sadiq Khan: Britain’s “extreme hard Brexit isn’t working”
The Mayor of London also decried the current arrangement with the EU as being “awful for London”.
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Don’t assume that migrant-born politicians should be pro-immigration
There is little progressive about assuming that Suella Braverman and Priti Patel should take a more liberal stance than other…
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In defence of Gary Lineker
How is he the villain for criticising Suella Braverman’s cruel refugee plan?
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Gary Lineker’s pre-emptive strike at BBC head Tim Davie
No one is going to stop the presenter tweeting his opinion.
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Rishi Sunak can’t win his fight on the small boats bill
He cannot reduce immigration to zero and plenty of Conservatives will be among those repulsed by the crackdown.
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