Without migrants, we wouldn't have the NHS

Our NHS would collapse without migrants.

How freaky hair 'won' in the Netherlands and Britain

 

An editorial in The Guardian asked a key question following the shock ‘win’ this month of a far-right politician in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, and his anti-immigrant ‘Party for Freedom’.

‘How did the Netherlands reach the point at which a former political pariah finds himself on the threshold of formal power?’

Do we want to be a part of Europe or apart?

Because of Brexit, Britain is rapidly propelling away from Europe, involving the loss of free trade, and free movement of people, with our neighbouring countries. Is that really what Britain wants?

Two-faced Brexit

Brexit has two-faced double-standards and nobody knows what or who to believe.

White and proud to be British?

If you’re white and proud to be British, then here’s a revelation: your British ancestors were black.

Are we restoring British identity, or losing it?

Britain is a potpourri of nationalities which makes Britain Great. We may be an island, but we’re also part of a planet. 

Boston wasn't always against migration

Boston is the town that most strongly voted for Brexit in the EU Referendum. Clearly, the people there don’t much like ‘free movement of people’. But it wasn’t always like that.

Daily Express: 'A bloody awful newspaper..'

Prince Philip once said, “The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper, full of lies, scandal and imagination”. For good measure he added, “It is a vicious paper.”

He was right, wasn’t he?

The anonymous haters of refugees and migrants

This week The Independent ‘Voices’ section published my article calling on Britain to ‘put a brake’ on the country becoming ‘fundamentally inward-looking and xenophobic’. 

But many of the readers’ comments responding to my article seemed to be just that: inward-looking and xenophobic.

TV entertainer says 'Britain is full'

Noel Edmonds of TV fame and one of the stars of the National Lottery's advertising campaign, is on the front page of the Daily Express declaring that ‘Britain is full’.

We are all the descendants of migrants

Our journey to where we are now – wherever we are now – took an amazing 200,000 years and started in east Africa. That, according to modern science, is where and when life began for us Homo sapiens.