Amnesty UK calls for end to privatised removals from Britain
As Western countries increasingly outsource many aspects of life to unaccountable corporations desperate to make money from misery, resistance is both necessary and moral. Bravo Amnesty UK: The UK Government must conduct a complete and radical overhaul of the current system of enforced removals from the UK, according to a new briefing and campaign launched…
How privatised care destroys souls (but makes nice amounts of cash)
British journalist Clare Sambrook on just another day in Britain: “You’re a big boy now so I have to search you,” said the immigration officer to the five-year-old, donning latex gloves and patting him down at a Heathrow Airport detention facility run by outsourcing giant G4S. The child had been booked into Terminal 4’s “short…
Delusions of the Palestinian Authority
After decades of fruitless negotiations, we still have the sad and sorry sight of Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat saying this in the US yesterday: We are in contact with all Quartet members. All they have to do is to make the Israeli government accept a two-state solution based on ”˜67 borders with mutually agreed land…
Wikileaks contributed to the Arab Spring?
Julian Assange says it played a factor in the US being less able to back dictators in the region: So, Cablegate as a whole caused these elites that prop each other up into region within the Arab speaking countries, and, within, between Europe and these countries and between the United States and these countries, to…
The rotting morality inside News Limited
The stench just continues: Rebekah Brooks, the embattled chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, personally commissioned searches by one of the private investigators who was later used by the News of the World to trace the family of the murdered Surrey schoolgirl Milly Dowler, The Independent can reveal. Ms Brooks, while editor of NOTW,…
