As academics and other concerned persons, we, the undersigned, are outraged at the manner in which discussions on the ongoing war against Palestine are being silenced on Indian campuses, and in the public sphere more broadly. We are issuing this statement to call upon university administrators and the government to respect our academic freedom.
Promises broken and new records set on immigration. And yet, our new Home Secretary shrugs his shoulders and says, "This figure is not showing a significant increase from last year's figures."
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Rishi Sunak is under huge pressure to act on legal migration today after figures showed that a record 1.2 million people arrived in 2022, driving a net increase of three-quarters of a million people in a single year.
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Voters are increasingly worried about immigration as the scale of Tory failure on the issue becomes apparent, but not enough to support the politicians who will actually do something about it, it appears.
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Roger Watson delves once again into the eccentric and grammatically challenged world of petitions to Parliament and finds little to encourage but plenty to amuse.
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The War on Korea (1950-53) was suspended with an armistice agreement. A hostile truce has persisted ever since. With respect to that ongoing confrontation, what Americans get from their government and their news mass media abounds with crucial omissions and misleading distortions resulting in a false portrayal of the geopolitical realities. Relevant history and essential facts. The Fight […]
For Comrade N. Sankaraiah (1922–2023) One of the curiosities of our time is that the far right is quite comfortable with the established institutions of liberal democracy. There are instances here and there of disgruntled political leaders who refuse to accept their defeat at the ballot box (such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro) and […]
Professor Mridula Mukherjee, Professor of Modern Indian History ( Retd), Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, will be delivering the 26 th Democracy Dialogues Series lecture on Sunday, 19 th November 2023 at 6 PM (IST).
Returning to Hong Kong for the first time since Covid, Dr Roger Watson says that the creeping absorption of the region into China is palpable as Beijing dismantles many of its former freedoms.
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Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) Even a dictatorship needs to pay attention to public opinion, in order to prevent there being a revolution. Consequently they have methods to control public opinion by censoring out what is true, and replacing it with falsehoods that boost their public support. In the Western dictatorships — those that constitute […]
