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EVEN if Britain was utterly blameless for the tragic situations unfolding in countries now haemorrhaging refugees into Europe, David Cameron’s attitude would be reprehensible.
The Prime Minister boasts of our country’s “rock-solid opt-out” from the Schengen agreement on open borders in the European Union, insisting that “there is no prospect of Britain joining a common asylum process in Europe.”
Not wishing the EU to take control of Britain’s borders should not equate to turning our backs on millions of refugees forced from their homeland by war and poverty.
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants