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Asylum: We need to debate using facts, not fiction
Over the coming weeks Richard, one of our volunteers, will be uncovering the facts about asylum seekers & refugees. Today he explores why it’s so important to understand what’s really going on: “Martin Luther King once said that “a great nation is a compassionate nation”. A poll conducted by YouGov in June 2014 suggests the…
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New Internationalist on the UK’s relaxed attitude to arms
An interesting article by Edward Robinson was published on the New Internationalist blog last week, detailling how a recent parliamentary inquiry into Britain’s arms exports found that the criterion for embargoing arms has been relaxed in recent years. The nub of the matter is that, instead of the refusing an arms export licence where there…