Asylum seekers get some bad press in the UK. However, most reasonable people (and even some that you really wouldn’t expect) think that escape from oppressive and dangerous regimes is fair, and that we should give ‘genuine’ asylum seekers refuge.
However, the bureaucracy and target setting that’s needed to show that the Blair government is [...]
Entries from March 2007
March 22, 2007
Not one thing, or another…
March 9, 2007
More racism – what gets asked gets answered
I’ve just got back from CDF’s conference on integration (http://www.cdf.org.uk/pooled/articles/BF_EVENTART/view.asp?Q=BF_EVENTART_217212 ). I’ll post more about it later, when I’ve had time to assimilate all my thoughts, but first a bit about racism and statistics courtesy of Bhikhu Parekh.
He noted that one statistic on integration that gets bandied about is that of intermarriage. I’ve written about [...]
