On December 1st 2025 Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, commonly known as ‘El Hishri’, was surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and is to face trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity in The Hague this year. The trial is a significant moment in the modern history of European-Libyan relations as it demonstrates that crimes - both contemporary and historical - of the greatest severity that are committed in Libyan detention centres are subject to internationa

Since Labour reclaimed power last summer, the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has borne the brunt of much of the criticism directed towards the government. The decisions to scrap  winter fuel payments  and  inheritance tax exemptions on  farms struck deep; this was an electorate unprepared for such change and a media that underestimated the UK’s first female occupant of the role being so combative right from the onset.  This front-footedness prompted a swift response. Hacks bayed

Labour is the party of social justice and compassion, says the party’s website . A title it seems the party will have to unceremoniously drop after its latest populist stunt regarding immigration policy. When the Labour party took power, albeit with little excitement, the reasonable public breathed a sigh of relief. No more hare-brained schemes to transport migrants to Rwanda , no more squabbling about ‘economic migrants’ , and finally a government filled with capable ministe

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s proposed asylum reforms received high praise from Reform leader Nigel Farage and notorious far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Inspired by Denmark’s asylum model , Mahmood’s reforms include  refugees having to reclaim asylum every two and a half years, refugees needing to be in the UK for twenty years before they can apply for permanent residency, harsher interpretations of the ECHR frameworks regarding family reunion, and the seizing of high-v

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