More Overseas Students To Be Told To Leave The Country
Britain’s student immigration policy is really, really stupid.
Britain’s student immigration policy is really, really stupid.
Your chance to spend an evening at 19 Princelet Street with British beat poet Michael Horovitz.
Asylum-seekers campaigning against deportation say they will continue in their protest.
‘What do we want? – Justice! Justice for who? Jimmy Mubenga!’ ‘No borders! No nations! No deportations!’ Central London echoed to the chants of 200 hundred protesters on Friday as they marched from the Angolan Embassy, along Oxford Street and down Park Lane, bringing traffic …
Marcos is a Brazilian student in London, Gareth is a slightly older Londoner: they fall in love. Immigration, flatsharing, racism, unrequited lesbian love and civil partnership law affects them both. Gareth wants Marcos to move in with him but suspicious flatmate Darren warns that Marcos …
The sculpture design competition for Bishop’s Square in Spitalfields has been won by Kenny Hunter’s I Goat. Hunter’s sculpture depicts the eponymous chirpy cheeky capra standing proudly atop a pile of packing crates, which symbolise the waves of immigration that have settled on the Spital …
London played conference host to President Karzai today. Goldsmith scion found dead in vaguely mysterious circumstances. Rebranding of London starts here: design company Saffron have been appointed. Immigration ain’t exactly a bundle of laughs for many Indian arrivals. More Kensington Nimbyism triggered by the prospect …
Inner-city London: for hundreds of years the multi-cultural melting pot of communities from around the globe. It should hardly come as a surprise that English isn’t always the dominant language, yet for certain sections of the media it appears to. According to a study by …
Well, they eat our trees at any rate. These are one of London’s less loved immigrants. Unlike the blameless souls to which we referred earlier this week. Processionary caterpillars are what we’re talking about, and they are bad bad news: one ends up wondering why …
Image by spacekadet from the Londonist Flickr pool A report for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has found claims that immigrants ‘jump the queue’ for social housing are a myth. Just 1.8% of social tenants have moved to the UK within the last …
“Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London”; thus spake Dr Johnson. Today that’s more true if you come from overseas than if you’re UK born. Research from the Halifax shows that between 1998 and 2007, 1.6 million …