immigrants

Living under the threat of deportation is a terrifying reality for many in America. The DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) act offers some respite from this fear for many, but it is far from a permanent solution, and it’s future…

In this increasingly tribalist environment, trying to understand the other side’s point of view is mocked as being defeatist to whatever cause you happen to favour. There are those on the Left who would assume that one is advocating…

A really strange thing happened this week. An old friend rocked into Katowice for the weekend. OK, that’s not strange ya turnip you’re thinking, well, it was strange because we’ve barely spoken in ten years and had pretty much lost touch.…

“Don’t forget your potato skinner, mate.” I let the sentence register for a moment and assess how I should take it. Have I just been racially abused? Or is this just a bit of harmless fun between friends? I’ve agreed to meet an English…

A few days ago, when speaking on CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin stated that if people wanted to live in America, they had to “speak American.” Even though she was quick to correct…

The Daily Mail recently published an ‘article’ detailing the living conditions of the 3,000 or so refugees living in what they called “The Calais Jungle.” To be honest, I didn’t make it past the headline – and I probably didn’t need to. We…

In her column for The Sun last week Katie Hopkins likened the migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa for the shores of Southern Europe to cockroaches (a favourite tactic of genocidal megalomaniacs) and called for…

As the British general election approaches we are seeing a lot of the good old political issues being taken down from the attic for the traditional bun fights; healthcare spending, the growing disparity between rich and poor, general…