One Saturday at a London drop-in for children fleeing crime gangs and blood feuds.
Regardless of the regime's record of arbitrary arrest and torture, the UK Home Office is pursuing the deportation of a 19 year old democracy protestor back to the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Government and right wing tabloids insist that Britain is too soft on migrants and life must get harder for them. For many, life is hard enough.
The UK immigration authorities have hounded an ill woman for years. They claim she is a health tourist. Her doctors confirm that she is not. On Thursday Roseline Akhalu yet again faces her accusers in court. Friends, neighbours and actor Colin Firth lend support.
If Theresa May wins her legal battle to have a Leeds transplant patient deported to Nigeria, Roseline Akhalu dies. If Roseline wins, where is the harm?
Home Secretary Theresa May’s relentless pursuit of kidney transplant patient Roseline Akhalu is one more sign of crisis within the Home Office and its UK Border Agency. A supporter of Akhalu writes.
The NHS saved Roseline Akhalu's life. The Home Secretary is about to determine whether the Border Agency may end it.
One arm of the state, the NHS, saves Roseline Akhalu's life. Another, the UK Border Agency, threatens to end it.
Kidney transplant patient Roseline Akhalu was detained by the UK immigration authorities for the second time on Wednesday 16 May and is at risk of deportation to Nigeria where, doctors warn, she will die if she cannot afford medical care. This is Roseline’s account of her first detention in March
At the Liberal Democrat conference last week, the party listed their achievements as the junior partner in the Coalition. Ending child detention was on that list. But this is a lie.
The everyday heroes of the NHS don't get a mention in the government's rhetoric on 'enterprise' and 'modernising the health service'. But these are the people we can trust to keep us healthy and safe.
Esme Madill, a consultant in the not for profit sector, spoke last night at a celebration of a London project for Somali children. She asked, if Cameron is calling on us to defend the values of the host community, who is part of this group? Can we have too many community groups, or too much cultur
