Refugees

It is almost exactly a year since I met a little boy called Wissam Saleh playing in a rubbish dump in scrubland where hundreds of refugees were sheltering along the Calais coast. Last November I accompanied the campaigner Lord Dubs to the…

For many of the people served by the humanitarian sector, 2024 has been the worst of times. The most recent UN estimates of those forced to flee violence and disaster is a record of 120 million, a figure that has doubled in the past decade.…

Like the conflicted cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, journalists, pundits and people who eschew MAGA merch have looked at the service formerly known as Twitter and lamented, “I don’t know how to quit you.” Even before Elon Musk took over,…

The Swifties were the canaries in the coal mine. Last week, as the fallout from the US presidential election ricocheted across the internet, Taylor Swift fans took a stand. In droves, they left X and went to Bluesky, where, as one Swiftie…

Google added that part of the problem it faces in generating its AI Overviews is that, for some very specific queries, there’s an absence of high quality information on the web. And there’s little doubt that Lynn’s work is not of high…

A TikTok video of actor Brian Baumgartner, from the American version of The Office, calling for the overthrow of the president of a small European country was an early sign that this would be no ordinary election.Late last year, Baumgartner…

The Friend gets around 15 hours of battery life and comes in an array of colors that look almost exactly like the color palette of the first Apple iMac computers. (Schiffmann says that wasn’t intentional.) The design comes from a…

Ukrainians who fled to the UK after Vladimir Putin’s invasion can be allowed to remain in Britain for an additional 18 months.The Home Office mentioned immediately it might lengthen programme granting three 12 months emergency visas to…

A Rwandan opposition chief is urging the UK to ditch its migrants deal, warning her nation has mismanaged funds previously.Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, who served eight years in jail for difficult Rwanda’s dictatorship, raised the alarm…

Home Secretary James Cleverly’s airplane to Rwanda to signal a deportation deal was delayed - after months of Tories moaning about judges delaying flights to Rwanda.The high Tory jetted into the capital Kigali at the moment to signal a…