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LIBERAL DEMOCRAT leader Tim Farron called on Britain to take in 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children in a private member’s Bill in the Commons yesterday.
The MP wants to commit Britain to helping Syrian, Iraqi, Afghan and Eritrean children displaced by conflict and living alone in Europe.
Recalling the kindertransport of the 1930s, in which Britain took in nearly 10,000 Jewish refugees escaping nazi persecution, he said the moral duty was “at the core of what it means to be British.”
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE