UK announces fifth round of rescue flights from India
30 Apr 2020 by Mark Caswell The British High Commission has confirmed plans for seven additional rescue flights to bring stranded British nationals home from India. Several phases of rescue […]
Why Religion Is Not Going Away and Science Will Not Destroy It
Source: Aeon Social scientists predicted that belief in the supernatural would drift away as modern science advanced. They were wrong. By Peter Harrison, who is an Australian Laureate Fellow and […]
Xenophobia 2019 data shows racism on the rise in Switzerland
Apr 27, 2020 – swissinfo.ch Experts say discrimination is increasingly taking place in public. (Keystone) Switzerland documented a record 352 cases of discrimination in 2019, reflecting an increase in racist […]
There’s only one way the fight against coronavirus resembles the real wars I’ve witnessed
Johnson and his acolytes will announce victory, but this will be untrue. Britons will still be dying with Covid-19, but their deaths will have become normal Robert Fisk @indyvoices 18 […]
It’s not just a second wave of the coronavirus we’re facing, but of unemployment too
If employers know that the government’s payroll support will be suddenly cut off at the end of June it’s inevitable that many will be thinking of starting to shed staff now https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-uk-job-cuts-furlough-unemployment-redundant-treasury-a9489881.html?jwsource=cl (video link) Ben Chu @Benchu_ 12 hours ago The historian AJP Taylor argued that the […]
EU grants protection to nearly 300,000 asylum-seekers in 2019
European Union member states granted protection to 295,800 asylum-seekers in 2019, the EU’s statistical office announced Monday. According to the latest data released by Eurostat, the largest group of beneficiaries […]
Netanyahu’s son calls for return of a ‘free, democratic, Christian’ Europe
By MARCY OSTER/JTA APRIL 29, 2020 JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yair Netanyahu, a son of the Israeli prime minister, called for the return of a “free, democratic and Christian” Europe in […]
‘Worst contraction in history’: Economic hit of Covid-19 in UK
26th April 2020 Shahzeb Athar, Jamia Ahmadiyya UK The world as we know it has drastically taken a turn into unprecedented waters, a turn so uncharted that the entire economic outlook seems dire and calamitous. I, nevertheless, deem it quite hard to believe that anyone could have predicted an […]
France: investigation launched over ‘racist remark’ by police officers
Two officers recorded on video using derogatory term against man in Paris banlieue Kim Willsher Mon 27 Apr 2020 The video was allegedly shot in the Seine-Saint-Denis banlieue north […]
I’m a long-time Saudi dissident — Newcastle United have no idea what they’re getting into
The notion that Newcastle United’s new owners would use their cash to transform the club into a football powerhouse along the lines of Manchester City is a pipe dream Ali […]
In the UK, white immigration is an asset – while everyone else is undesirable
Source: Independent These laws have been racialised since their inception, argues Afua Hirsch. There’s a reason only some nationalities are seen as unthreatening to British identity A conversation that has […]
Ahmadiyya community announce virtual Iftar during quarantine
By Orlando Jenkinson Lando_j Reporter – Kingston, Elmbridge & Epsom South London and Surrey’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community announced plans for a virtual Big Iftar meal to mark Ramadan during […]
Prince Charles pays respects to the Muslim NHS workers who died treating coronavirus patients in video marking the start of Ramadan
By Sophie Tanno For Mailonline Prince Charles has paid his respects to Muslim NHS workers who have lost their lives on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
How the Coronavirus Is Changing the World
Source: Spiegel One needn’t look far for signs of the apocalypse. The world is facing the most dramatic economic crisis since the Great Depression, according to the International Monetary Fund, and the pandemic will change the planet from the ground up, writes the newsmagazine Foreign Policy. Are things really going […]
Help the Hungry: The volunteers making The Independent’s campaign possible
These super volunteers are the backbone for London’s fourth emergency service – food provision to the capital’s hungry – and the Felix Project could not function without them David Cohen Today Duncan MacNichol was up at 5am to begin his 12-hour shift on the frontline. He picked up a van […]
Worst UK slump in ‘centuries’ looms as lockdown slams business
Arab News Thursday . April 23, 2020 The UK economy should recover its pre-coronavirus growth pattern once the pandemic is over, but it could take time, a British central […]
No faithful, no cash: Lockdown proves critical for German mosques
Apr 21, 2020 – swissinfo.ch By Joseph Nasr BERLIN (Reuters) – Mosques in Germany that depend on donations from Friday prayers face bankruptcy as the coronavirus lockdown strips them […]
I’m glad the pubs might be closed until Christmas. This isn’t the national tragedy you think it is
Our tendency to peddle quaint myths positioning these venues as ‘robust British values’ is ridiculous. We don’t need them half as much as we need more family-friendly establishments Jane Fae […]
Israel to seize Palestinian land near Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque
Palestinians denounce move to expropriate West Bank land, as final approval for the plan lies with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu By MEE staff Published date: 21 April 2020 […]
UK. Nurse shortage causes Nightingale hospital to turn away patients
Sarah Marsh and Denis Campbell 12 hrs ago Dozens of patients with Covid-19 have been turned away from the NHS Nightingale hospital in London because it has too few nurses to treat them, the Guardian can reveal. The disclosure comes amid a growing belief among hospital management in […]