Friday, 9 July 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Do we have a population problem?
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Is it the people or their consumption that is the problem? Leading scientists and writers from Oxford and beyond examine if the scale of the human population is the main cause of our ecological...
BBC news Oxfordshire (09-Jul-2010)

Jailed, illegal immigrant who used cash to fund kids education
A Nigerian woman who came to Britain illegally to fund her four children's education has been jailed for six months. Adenike Banjo, 49, of Beeston Road, Moston, used a fake Nigerian passport to secure work at HR Care, in Sale, and Downshaw Lodge, Ashton-Under...
Manchester Evening News (09-Jul-2010)

Our baby can't live in a bedsit
A TODDLER forced to eat, play and sleep in a cramped bedsit is the victim of Canterbury City Council's chronic housing shortage, an MP has claimed. And he blames immigration for part of the...
This is Kent (09-Jul-2010)

Taking the exotically-coloured cocktail route to asylum
AT LEAST one right-wing English newspaper has warned of the possibility of a flood of gay refugees after a British judge ruled that two gay men, one from Cameroon and one from Iran, whose applications for asylum-seeker status had been turned down by another court, could stay in Britain after...
Press and Journal (09-Jul-2010)

Nurses have to take over if locums cant cope
I have found their comprehension of the English language very challenging. Sometimes I was miming or using child-speak to explain things to one...
Herald Scotland (09-Jul-2010)

It's not racist to say 'sorry, we're full'
The current debacle in Mosney was rightly declared by the Free Legal Advice Centre to be "an accident waiting to happen", but it also brings up some other, wider...
Unison.ie (09-Jul-2010)

NOW BEING A FAN OF KYLIE WINS YOU THE RIGHT TO ASYLUM
NOTHING more graphically symbolises the collapse of Britain s national integrity than the expensive, destructive chaos of the asylum...
Daily Express (09-Jul-2010)

Britain must be generous with homosexual asylum seekers
Britain must liberally provide asylum for those persecuted for their sexuality in their home countries, writes Antonia Senior. The Supreme Court's decision to give homosexuals "the fundamental right" to be who they are is...
New Statesman (08-Jul-2010)

Ireland being used as 'gateway' for child sex traffickers
- Child sex traffickers are increasingly turning to Ireland as a gateway into Britain, a report claimed today. Slave traders are switching their attention to the Irish Sea because of a security clampdown on so-called classic routes through airports and from France, it...
Ireland On-Line (08-Jul-2010)

Morning Line: Population growth and scorched public services an explosive mix?
At not much more than 200,000 square kilometres, and around 70 million of us expected to share it by 2030, space is at something of a premium in...
Citywire (08-Jul-2010)

Alp Mehmet: Traffickers will seek to exploit the judgment
THE ruling could apply to literally millions of people around the...
The Scotsman (08-Jul-2010)

Al Qaeda mastermind living in Britain faces extradition to the US | Mail Online
An alleged Al Qaeda mastermind living in Britain faces extradition to the United States on terrorism charges, it emerged last night. Abid Naseer, 24, is wanted by the...
The Mail On Sunday (08-Jul-2010)

Two gay men win landmark court ruling over right to asylum in UK
GAY foreigners who fear persecution in their homeland stand a greater chance of being able to claim asylum in Britain, after law lords yesterday said they had a right under international law to live freely and openly as they...
The Scotsman (08-Jul-2010)

NOW ASYLUM IF YOU'RE GAY
ASYLUM claims could soar after judges upheld appeals by two gay men who were to be...
Scottish Daily Express (08-Jul-2010)

GAY ASYLUM SEEKERS 'HAVE A RIGHT TO KYLIE'
THE UK has opened the floodgates to asylum seekers who say they are gay, it was claimed last...
Daily Star (08-Jul-2010)

NO ROOM FOR GAYS
OPENING the floodgates to gay asylum seekers is absolute...
Daily Star (08-Jul-2010)

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Infantile judgment | Mail Online
It is hard to overstate just how ill-informed, infantile, silly and, yes, prejudiced his remarks are. Does Supreme Court judge Lord Rodger really believe the typical gay man enjoys Kylie concerts and drinking exotically-coloured cocktails, while heterosexuals play rugby, drink beer and talk...
The Mail On Sunday (08-Jul-2010)

RIGHTS MUST BE BALANCED
THE persecution of homosexuals in many countries of the world is shameful, illogical and...
Daily Express (08-Jul-2010)

Why the Supreme Court ruled against the deportation of gay asylum-seekers
'Male homosexuals are to be free to enjoy themselves going to Kylie concerts, drinking exotically coloured cocktails and talking about boys with their straight female...
The Independent (08-Jul-2010)

Gay asylum seekers win case to stay
The Supreme Court has allowed appeals by two gay asylum seekers who faced persecution if returned home. Both men had been refused asylum in the UK on the grounds that they could avoid ill-treatment by keeping their sexuality secret or behaving...
Evening Standard (07-Jul-2010)