Content in the topic of Rights and Freedoms

If it hasn’t already, the situation in the Middle East risks reaching boiling point, but an underdiscussed aspect is the impact it could have on the fightback against Putin’s illegal war and the importance of the UK and Europe keeping Ukraine high up the geopolitical agenda.

For far too long asylum seekers, and immigrants of all kinds, have been demonised. Their existence weaponised for political gain, their struggles ignored in favour of a narrative designed to stoke division and fear. Tomorrow is World Refugee Day and so we felt there was no better time to dispel the myths which surround refugees. How many refugees are in the UK? How much do we spend each year to protect refugees? Which country takes the most refugees globally?

The defeat of the liberal mayor of Warsaw by an ardent nationalist and eurosceptic will bring challenges to Polish PM Donald Tusk and threaten Poland’s place at the centre of the European Union. With victory, Nawrocki becomes the latest European leader to actively ape President Trump as the MAGA movement seeps into European politics.

Anthony Albanese secured a thumping electoral victory in Australia over the weekend, becoming the first Australian Prime Minister to secure a second term in decades. So with a pro-Trump candidate winning the first round of the Romanian Presidential election, and Reform UK making gains in last week's local elections, what can Europe learn from Canada and Australia about pushing back the populist tide?

April Fools' Day is here again, but in full transparency we couldn’t think of anything as ridiculous as global politics right now, so here are five times Reform UK tried to take us all for fools…

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, established following the murder of 69 people in South Africa during protests against apartheid in 1960. With Donald Trump currently undermining progress on racial equality in America, solidarity against racism remains vitally important.

Today marks the third International Day to Combat Islamophobia, introduced by the UN to mark the date of the 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack in which 51 Muslims were killed during Friday prayer. Last year, anti-Muslim hate incidents in Britain hit a record high. Is online misinformation to blame?

I’m trying very hard not to open by saying “the world has changed” because it’s been said in every op-ed, Substack, and podcast this week. But, the world really has changed. There is only before that Oval Office moment with Zelenskyy, and after - at least in the sense of modern geopolitics. Here is why our work is still so vitally important...

On Monday, Olaf Scholz was the first of the amassed European leaders to leave the emergency Paris meeting on the rapidly escalating situation surrounding Ukraine. Unlike the other leaders, Scholz is under remarkable pressure as Germany’s federal election approaches on Sunday. Scholz knows that he will lose his chancellorship, but the complexity of the German electoral system and the guarantee of a coalition means that the divisions in the country are likely to continue, especially under the shadow of the AfD, American tariffs and interference, and now Ukraine.

This is a guest blog by Peter Kellner. Subscribe to Peter's Substack.   Immigration matters. We all know that. It vies with health care and the economy for top place...