What is the legal alternative to a small boat for, say, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who is being persecuted by his government and wishes to apply for asylum in the UK (because he speaks a bit o… (View Post)

And, of course, strong economic and social ties. One of the main motivations for the foundation of the EEC was to bind its members so closely together that war between them would become unthinkable a… (View Post)

No, you simply misunderstood the data, which was actually saying the 10% (or thereabouts, I forgot the exact figure) of the Somalian population of the UK lives in Birmingham. The funny thing was that… (View Post)

For me it was The Flipside of Dominick Hide. I know time travel causal loops are a cliche now, but my young teenage self was fascinated by the concept. And I was totally besotted with the young Carol… (View Post)

I'm guessing that the lowest levels of racism in the UK were the early 2010s when the usual suspects were getting their knickers in a twist about the level of EU immigration from Eastern Europe. Back… (View Post)