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The United Nations does not exist. More to the point (though ‘more to the point’ may seem counterintuitive here), the UN Security Council does not exist. So, very quickly, we should make two points. This piece is the result of some posts and statements made and shared by friends and colleagues of ours. It is NOT intended as a criticism of or attack against them – they are extraordinarily interested in the situation and committed to people’s wellbeing and lives in Syria and de

The – justified – outrage over the impounding of the ship ‘Open Arms’ has its roots in Italy’s refusal to make a case for aiding refugees, a failure which is also at the heart of Italy’s recent descent into populism. We examine how refusing even to have the debate can hand victory to those you know you are correct to oppose... Italy and the EU: desperation fed by refusal On 24 March (Saturday), protestors from around the world gathered to call for the immediate release of the

Two weeks ago to the day, we published a piece here about the rising attacks on Oxfam and the entire humanitarian sector by the UK and international Right-wing. Though the incident in question was related to very specific attacks by one man – Rob Wilson, a former Conservative MP and Charities Minister, who now writes a column for the Daily Telegraph – we noted that this was in no way unusual, either in the UK or the wider world, and indeed was characteristic of the Right, and

Rob Wilson, the former UK Charities Minister, has used his column in the national newspaper the Daily Telegraph to attack an international NGO, claiming that Oxfam has ‘disappeared up its own posterior’. Aside from the fact that there are few more disheartening indications of how far British political standards have fallen – for all their faults, there is simply no way that a member of, for example, the Conservative government of Howard Macmillan would ever have reduced thems