Despite headlines like ‘Asylum Sponger is Convicted Thief’, those seeking asylum are statistically more likely to be victims of crime than its perpetrators.
Category: Features
The UN can still hold the world together
Edward Mortimer is Director of Communications in the office of the UN Secretary-General. In an exclusive article for the LIP magazine, he discusses the future of the United Nations.
Kashmiri Independence
‘In 1998, eight of my relatives died in an Indian mortar attack. On the same day, a sniper shot dead a cousin of mine’
Under Scrutony
The title of Roger Scruton’s latest book is deliberately offensive.
Voting in Israel
It was very reluctantly that I even went into the ballot station in Israel on January 28th.
Student’s struggle for change
University campuses across the country were witness to hundreds of angry students, occupying buildings and shouting slogans
Islamism and Populism in Turkey and Beyond
In reality, the AKP was not driven to power simply by frustration or even by the oft-cited conservatism of small businessmen. It was elected because it offers a progressive vision of the future.