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Labour MP David Lammy poured scorn on the Conservative Party in the House of Commons today, describing their "small U-turn" on the Windrush generation as a "day of national shame". Speaking after Amber Rudd announced that a new task force would be set up to help Commonwealth immigrants facing deportation he said the government should "guarantee the status of all the Windrush children caught up in this crisis". The Tottenham MP said it was a "national shame" that it had taken so...

The government has admitted that some people from the Windrush generation have been deported in error. Great Britain asked for people from Caribbean countries, in the 50s and 60s, to plug a gap in the workforce. They entered the UK in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration 70 years ago. They were dubbed the Windrush generation - due to a ship, the Empire Windrush, which arrived in the UK,from the Caribbean, in 1948. Shockingly, some may have been deported for...

A worrying new report has highlighted how Tory cuts have caused a crisis in homelessness among young people. The documents discovered that delays in supplying Universal Credit payments on time were forcing people onto the streets, in desperation. With no access to welfare payments they have no option but to sleep on the streets, or in refuges supplied by charities. According to the survey carried out by Homeless Link, a charity that works with homeless people, over ninety per cent...

  To read some of the coverage of the limited air and missile strikes against Syrian military targets on Friday April 13 2018 one might have deduced that this was Iraq War II the sequel. On the one hand May and Trump were busy congratulating themselves on their “tough” military response to the Syrian regime’s murderous use of chemical weapons against civilian targets in Douma. On the other, elements of a Stalinized Left who are reluctant to recognise the threat...

  Prime Minister Theresa May followed the US President's announcement of joint military action against Assad, insisting the strikes would be "targetted" and "limited" to degrade the Syrian forces' chemical weapons capabilities. As air raid sirens and explosions were heard in the Syrian capital, Theresa May said that Russian denials of Syrian responsibility for last weekend's chemical weapons outrage and blocking of a UN Security Council resolution had left the US, UK and France with no choice. The timing of...

Warplanes being maintained and flown at RAF Lakenheath & RAF Coningsby

This is the moment a single mum burst into tears of joy as campaigners blocked her being evicted by her landlord - a wealthy former football director. Sally Andrews was due to be kicked out by staff from Ernest Arathoon’s property management company. Mr Arathoon is a shareholder and former director at Bristol City who now lives in Florida. Sally was due to be evicted by a court-appointed bailiff at noon on Thursday from her home in Hartcliffe, Bristol. But...

Risky behaviour mystified scientists for years because it puts the world's fastest animal at extraordinary risk

A kindhearted waitress whips up fresh meals for the homeless in her community and says she has dished out 75,000 DINNERS from her own kitchen. Granny Gloria Lewis, 54, spends her weekends making 225 fresh dinners and 180 breakfasts from her two-stove, four-fridge kitchen after years of living on the brink of homelessness in her low-income job. Gloria, who moved to the US from Barbados in 1987, spends $700 on groceries every weekend to make dozens of home-cooked meals for...