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UK Home Office is more inhumane now than it has ever been

THE first story I wrote about the UK Home Office and what became its ‘hostile environment’ was more than a decade ago and the department has shown no sign of changing course. In fact, over the years, it has gotten worse, as the story below illustrates. A Syrian student in Glasgow is appealing against a […]

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A few words on a holiday paradise

A number of friends have asked me why the company I was working for and myself parted company just before Christmas, but that’s a long story which I’ll condense and talk about later. For now though I’ve only just recovered from a month in Goa – from temperatures ranging from between 30-35C and coming home […]

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India is calling … bye for now

I’m quite happy to see the old year fade into the past – it didn’t end on the best note it might have – and I’m going off for a few weeks to think about my options for the future. My destination is our bolt-hole in Goa, which has been neglected for too long, and […]

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