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Basit Mahmood
23 December, 2025 (3 days ago)

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Top 5 ignorant remarks by Richard Littlejohn on the death of Aylan Kurdi

Adam Barnett
4 September, 2015

More garbage from the Daily Mail’s blowhard columnist

Times credits everyone for PM’s refugee U-turn – except Yvette Cooper!

Adam Barnett
4 September, 2015

Archbishop of Canterbury roped in to deny Labour a moral victory

Fresh crisis talks to start in Northern Ireland next week

Ed Jacobs
4 September, 2015

This follows revelations that the murder of Kevin McGuigan may have been at the hands of the provisional IRA

David Cameron’s refugee response would appal past Tory prime ministers

Jill Rutter
3 September, 2015

Edward Heath admitted 27,000 Ugandan Asians , Thatcher admitted 24,500 Vietnamese refugees and John Major took in 4,000 Bosnians. Cameron has taken 200 Syrians.

The Daily Mail’s hypocrisy on refugees knows no bounds

Adam Barnett
3 September, 2015

Are they little angels or migrant hordes?

Comment: Does Labour really have a chance in Northern Ireland?

Ryan Maynes
3 September, 2015

In East Belfast, poverty and lack of infrastructure mean that many are crying out for an alternative to the mainstream unionist parties

Osborne’s Living Wage will narrow the pay gap, but won’t help the very poorest families

Ruby Stockham
3 September, 2015

New research shows that the biggest beneficiaries of the new wage will be households in the middle of the bottom wage distribution

Since when did the Tory press care about the lives of refugees?

Adam Barnett
3 September, 2015

Pictures of dead children look like a cynical bid to sell newspapers

Poll: Should Britain take in more refugees?

3 September, 2015

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Comment: A progressive foreign policy alternative to Corbynism

Alan Johnson
3 September, 2015

Rejecting Corbyn’s foreign policy does not mean a return to the neoconservatism that led to the Iraq war

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