Alex Thomson
Migrants and refugees: does opening door make it better or worse?
Another round of insults about who is racist and who is progressive is achieving nothing at all in the stymied, divided, impotent EU.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
Refugee camp: child slavery in everything but name
This is what a real refugee crisis looks like and the more the world turns away with its wallet, the more things fall apart, the more this real crisis will come to the EU.
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Alex Thomson
Glasgow bin lorry inquiry: ‘remarkable lack of compassion’
Tonight in Glasgow and beyond all the signs are that this painful and tragic accident will remain painful and unresolved in the minds of many, forever.
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Alex Thomson
Palmyra’s Khaled Asaad: ‘I was born here, I will die here’
A colleague in Damascus has spoken to his family, who explained how they feel he was betrayed by ‘neighbours’.
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Alex Thomson
How football is tarnished and damaged by ignoring free speech
Gratifyingly, with the new season and the new rash of clubs busy censoring the media, the Great Banning Debate is now very much alive. Good.
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Alex Thomson
How can it be normal to ban journalists from the football?
There are football clubs in England and Scotland who feel it is perfectly normal to ban any journalist guilty of perpetrating journalism they disapprove of.
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Alex Thomson
Greece crisis: eurozone demands action, not words
“The most important currency has been lost,” remarked a rueful Angela Merkel on her way into the Eurozone talks today, “and that is trust.”
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Alex Thomson
Greek crisis: an issue of “conditionality” (trust)
It is every bit as much about trust as about economics now. Of course, this being Brussels and this being the EU, nobody would ever use a word as straightforward as “trust”.
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Alex Thomson
7/7 : contemplation after a terrifying and confused day
Seeing our camera and tripod, tourists around St Paul’s and Aldgate constantly approach to ask what is going on. No need for any inquiries a decade ago as the streets fell empty.
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Alex Thomson
Heatwave? It’s all Johnny Foreigner’s fault!
The tabs rave about hot air coming maliciously in ‘from the continent’ where ‘continental air pollution’ will be dragged here resulting in the current mass death threat.
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Alex Thomson
Syria’s remaining hospitals under bombardment
It appears that the already severely degraded medical services available to civilians in Syria are diminishing fast under assault from barrel bombs.
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Alex Thomson
Denis O’Brien injunction: what damage to Irish democracy?
It is fundamental. It is the bedrock of any society claiming to be democratic. And in the Republic of Ireland it has been wiped away at a stroke.
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Alex Thomson
Hatton Garden heist: two Brians and a building site
“You’d have vans coming and going at all hours,” says one elderly neighbour, looking out at the manor of Brians Reader – Senior and Junior – now cordoned by blue and white police tape.
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Alex Thomson
When will English politicians understand Scotland and the SNP?
How much longer does the English political establishment go on not only not getting it – but demonstrating with toe-curling embarrassment that they simply don’t get it.
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Alex Thomson
Feeling threatened? Insults fired at the SNP
More insults raining down on the SNP tonight with the Labour hopeful in Glasgow South calling the party a “cult”. Curious for any person defending a 10,000+ “safe seat” to say that because it sounds like he feels threatened. He is, of course.