Matthew Carr's Blog, page 61

Offshore asylum screening centres: towards a cordon sanitaire

Europe’s annual migrant ‘boat season’ is getting underway, and already the numbers of migrants crossing the Mediterranean are already showing a dramatic increase on previous years.   According to the European Border Agency Frontex, 42,000 people have tried to reach Italy … Continue reading →

The friends of Jimmy Savile

It is now clear that the freakish peroxide conman Jimmy Savile was one of the nastiest and most vicious paedophiles in British history.   At present, according to new research commissioned from the NSPCC by the NSPCC,  there are more than … Continue reading →

Europe’s Ghosts

I’ve been walking in the mountains of Andalucia for the last week, and staying in a hotel with really poor Internet reception.   As a result I wasn’t able to blog, and was barely able even to grasp what had taken … Continue reading →

In the Country of the Blind

It’s early days yet, but the first signs this morning are that Ukip has made predictably big gains in local council elections.   This does not yet constitute the ‘political earthquake’ that Farage and his cohorts have predicted.  So far Ukip … Continue reading →

Anyone but Ukip

Today Nigel Farage’s ‘people’s army’ will set off down to the polling stations today to keep its appointment with destiny.   This is one appointment that destiny would really be well-advised not to get out of bed for, because we have … Continue reading →

‘ No one is listening to us’: Britain’s Migrant Rebellion

On Friday May 2, 150 detainees at Harmondsworth Removal Centre went on hunger strike. The GEO private security firm that runs Harmondsworth quickly responded with repression, breaking up meetings and placing ringleaders in solitary confinement, in an attempt to snuff … Continue reading →

Rich and Getting Richer

For the last five years we have heard a great detail of rhetoric from British politicians about the ‘tough choices’ that the financial crisis has imposed upon the nation.  Again and again we heard that this crisis affected everyone equally, … Continue reading →

Negotiating With Boko Haram?

Is Nigeria intending to negotiate the release of the 276 kidnapped schoolgirls or it preparing to attack Boko Haram?   The answer to this question does not seem clear, even to the Nigerian government itself.   Throughout much of the crisis the … Continue reading →

Thou Shalt Not Tweet ill of Ukip

Anyone who has written criticism of Ukip will be familiar with the bug-eyed tweets and comments posted by its rank-and-file supporters that inevitably follow.  In the Internet Ukip often behaves like an angry mob, pouring forth a constant stream of … Continue reading →

Britain’s Migrant Revolt: ‘ We want our freedom’

For the last week, largely unnoticed in the mainstream British media, migrants in Britain’s ‘immigration removal centres’ have been engaged in one of the largest and most significant protests in many years against the dire conditions in the Britain’s ‘detention … Continue reading →