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From ID cards to echoing the BNP – seven ways to make migrants feel unwelcome

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 31 July 2018
Campaigns: Migration

The Border Audit, a new report from the centre-right thinktank Policy Exchange was released on Monday. The authors essentially argue that the problem with the hostile environment for migrants is […]

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Liam Fox thinks it’s all over and absolute power over trade deals is his. Not yet, Sonny Jim

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 19 July 2018
Campaigns: Trade

He thinks he’s done it. The relief on Liam Fox’s face after his government survived a series of votes on his beloved Trade Bill relatively unscathed was clear. If this […]

Parliament was asleep at the wheel on CETA. It can’t be allowed to happen again

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 28 June 2018
Campaigns: Trade

Few people noticed but parliament just made a big mistake on trade. On Tuesday, MPs passed a motion in support of CETA – the EU-Canada trade agreement. This wouldn’t be […]

How Liam Fox read 60,000 comments on the trade consultation in a few hours

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 22 November 2017
Campaigns: Trade

Liam Fox must be a very fast reader. Superhuman in fact. Because just hours after the ‘consultation’ on the trade white paper closed, the government proposed a new Trade Bill.

Time for a UK agricultural policy that doesn’t subsidise the rich

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 5 August 2016

Let’s get one thing straight. The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a disaster. It is essentially a £50 billion welfare system for the landed gentry and other big landowners […]

I thought I could get away from Brexit in Outer Mongolia…. I was wrong

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 13 July 2016

Outer Mongolia has, like Timbuktu, always been one of those places well known (from an anglo-centric perspective) for being very far away from the UK. However, the Asia-Europe People’s Forum […]

It feels like the tragedy of a generation, but we need to gear up not give up

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 27 June 2016

It’s been a couple of days since the shocking referendum result, and it feels no better than it did on the night. In fact, if anything, it feels worse. Many […]

Why Brexit would be terrible for our campaigns for trade, food, energy and migration justice

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 22 June 2016
Campaigns: Trade

The latest polls show that the referendum battle is very close and leaving the EU could be a real possibility. While we’re critical of the way the EU currently works, […]

The EgyptAir disaster is a tragedy, but let’s not forget the other crisis on the Med

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 27 May 2016

Last Thursday, like all of us, I woke up to the terrible news about the missing EgyptAir plane over the Mediterranean. I can only imagine how terrible it must be […]

Electricity privatisation has consistently failed from London to Lagos. So why are we still doing it?

By: Alex Scrivener
Date: 26 May 2016

Finally, after a year of campaigning against the DFID-funded privatisation of Nigeria’s energy, there is the glimmer of a breakthrough in the form of two high-level Parliamentary inquiries that scrutinise […]

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