Piddington: roar of the Waitrose mums
That sound you hear in the distance is the roar of the Waitrose mums. Piddington, a tiny, well-to-do village in Oxfordshire, has voted to secede from the United Kingdom over…
That sound you hear in the distance is the roar of the Waitrose mums. Piddington, a tiny, well-to-do village in Oxfordshire, has voted to secede from the United Kingdom over…
Over the past few months, the quiet Oxfordshire village of Piddington, population just 350, has become the unlikely flashpoint of Britain’s immigration crisis. Locals are so furious about plans to…
They say you campaign in poetry and govern in prose. On current form, the Green Party of England and Wales seems intent on campaigning in Urdu and governing in Lahore.…
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You don’t have to be an open-borders fanatic to want writers and others to be able to cross frontiers to exchange views with like-minded people abroad. Unfortunately, this is not…
Azad*, an asylum seeker from Iran, recounts his story in a gentle and mild manner, seated in the stillness of a therapy room at a trauma clinic in Birmingham. The…
Andy Burnham provided one of those rare moments at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday when a politician inadvertently crystallises an entire political philosophy in a single sentence. Challenged over defence…
The UK’s asylum system has been broken for years. As the British public knows all too well, anyone can arrive and seemingly no one can be deported. This week’s revelation…
The summer of 2024 brought riots. The summer of 2025 brought protests outside of migrant hotels. Now the summer of 2026 ends with hundreds of masked men in Dover, stopping…