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Sep 20, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Nathan Akehurst
When Keir Starmer scrapped the Tories’ disastrous Rwanda deportations deal within days of assuming office, there was a sigh of relief. Many welcomed what seemed to be a decisive shift away from the previous government’s strategy of using relentless cruelty toward people migrating to distract from their failures to govern.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
tribunemag.co.uk | Nathan Akehurst |Kristina Millona
After meeting with Giorgia Meloni, Keir Starmer expressed admiration for the Italian prime minister’s plans to deport refugees to camps in Albania — signalling the Labour government’s willingness to embrace the policies of neofascism.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nathan Akehurst
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Nathan Akehurst
Five years seems a long time ago. When Europe last went to the polls, its politics certainly weren’t healthy. EU-backed austerity blighted lives across the continent, the radical right was rising, and from France’s gilet jaunes protests to Britain’s Brexit crisis, countries were wracked with social conflict. But there were things to be hopeful about. Popular movements had catapulted new left-wing forces into parliaments.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Nathan Akehurst
Early in January, Britain’s Telegraph revealed that the once-mighty Royal Navy was running out of sailors and would have to decommission two recently refurbished frigates to staff its new ships. Reporting on a naval “recruitment crisis” exploded. The alleged posting on LinkedIn of a senior submarine job was widely ridiculed. Right-wing reporters blamed shortages on a “woke generation” not wanting to join — yet somehow also blamed the Navy’s inclusion staff for appealing to diverse recruits.
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Sep 24, 2023 | 
jacobin.com | Nathan Akehurst
The small island of Lampedusa forms something of a natural life raft. While belonging to Italy, it sits around a hundred miles front the Tunisian coast, making it a strategic landing place throughout history — and a natural shelter for people seeking safety. In just over twenty-four hours last week, over seven thousand people arrived on the island. While crossings have peaked in the low thousands before, this number is unusually large.
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
inews.co.uk | Nathan Akehurst
It was just after lunchtime last Saturday and the boat in distress was directly ahead of us and drifting, little more than a grey bathtub tossed around by the waves. We had been looking for it since the previous night. It had 38 people aboard – without food, fuel, water, or respite from the scorching Mediterranean summer. Our two rescue boats launched off the main ship and tore over the water. As we approached, those on board told us there was a dead man in the boat.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
thehillstimes.in | Nathan Akehurst
By: Nathan AkehurstEurope is burning. Hitting almost 110°F, Rome has broken its heat record, set only last year, and some Italian hospitals have reported inpatient numbers reaching COVID-era levels. Special flights headed to Corfu and Rhodes to evacuate tourists from fires rolling across the Greek islands, while the locals are stuck with the consequences. Even the Alps are pushing 100°F. Across the Mediterranean, Algeria recorded the hottest night in African history.
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Aug 2, 2023 | 
ipanewspack.com | Nathan Akehurst
By Nathan AkehurstEurope is burning. Hitting almost 110°F, Rome has broken its heat record, set only last year, and some Italian hospitals have reported inpatient numbers reaching COVID-era levels. Special flights headed to Corfu and Rhodes to evacuate tourists from fires rolling across the Greek islands, while the locals are stuck with the consequences. Even the Alps are pushing 100°F. Across the Mediterranean, Algeria recorded the hottest night in African history.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
jacobin.com | Nathan Akehurst
Europe is burning. Hitting almost 110°F, Rome has broken its heat record, set only last year, and some Italian hospitals have reported inpatient numbers reaching COVID-era levels. Special flights headed to Corfu and Rhodes to evacuate tourists from fires rolling across the Greek islands, while the locals are stuck with the consequences. Even the Alps are pushing 100°F. Across the Mediterranean, Algeria recorded the hottest night in African history.
