Three Cheers for Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein
- October 15, 2015
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- Matt
The Daily Mail and the Daily Express are angry with the Jordanian United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. No one will be surprised by this. Neither newspaper is a fan of the United Nations. They don’t like ‘human rights’ – a spurious PC concept that foreigners are always trying to foist upon us. And they especially don’t like it whenever some jumped-up Johnny Foreigner whose name doesn’t even sound like John Smith has the temerity to criticize the xenophobia, racism and bigotry that...
Europe’s Border Insurgency
- September 03, 2015
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- Matt
David Cameron has never looked shiftier or more downright disreputable than he did yesterday, when he attempted to defend the UK’s iniquitous and morally indefensible response to the most serious refugee crisis since the aftermath of World War II. Faced with calls from Germany to accept a quota of refugees, he offered the following...
Calais: the dystopian frontier
- July 31, 2015
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- Matt
In these nervous, gloomy times our cultural appetite for dystopia often seems insatiable. Again and again in book, tv series and film we like to imagine places in the near or distant future where our worst fears are realized, and the destructive or oppressive tendencies that we perhaps sense in the present are...
The Brightest and the Best
- June 24, 2015
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- Matt
One thing you can always count on with this government: when it comes to immigration it will always do something more squalid and nasty than you previously thought possible. And this week Lord Snooty and His Pals have demonstrated once again that when it comes to sheer bloody-minded stupidity, mean-spirited xenophobia and downright racism,...
The Rohingya: a suitable case for genocide?
- May 18, 2015
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- Matt
‘ All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood,’ declares Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Today, in the early 21st century, we live in a world in...
Europe’s ‘war on people smugglers’
- May 14, 2015
- by
- Matt
We’ve had the war on drugs and the war on terror, and now the European Union in its infinite wisdom is preparing to add a new conflict to this less-than- illustrious tradition, in the shape of its militarised response to ‘people smuggling’ that has finally been rolled out this week. To be precise,...
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