Oliver Harvey

1 month ago | thesun.co.uk | Oliver Harvey

GYRATING awkwardly in dark eye make-up and girls’ clothes, the dancing boys of Afghanistan twirl for their depraved masters. These wretched children - some as young as ten - aren’t just forced to take part in a pitiful cabaret act. After the music stops the boys are raped by predators, usually from the higher echelons of Afghan society. Many of the youngsters have been abducted from their families or even sold by their parents into a life of sexual servitude.

1 month ago | thesun.co.uk | Oliver Harvey

FEIGNING reluctance, as is the centuries-old tradition, Sir Lindsay Hoyle had to be dragged to the chair as he became Speaker of the House of Commons. But it seems there is a seat you really would struggle to coax Sir Lindsay into — one in economy class on an aeroplane going somewhere fancy. The lifelong socialist, who is MP for down-to-earth Chorley, Lancs, likes to travel in style at the front of the plane — with taxpayers, of course, footing the bill.

1 month ago | thesun.co.uk | Oliver Harvey

AMID the fetid gloom of a derelict Calais wine warehouse, Ahmed Adam insists he’ll risk everything to reach Britain’s shores. And with prices for an illegal lift across the Channel now almost less than a QUARTER of the price they were two years ago his dream has come even more affordable. Staring out at rows of tents crammed into the ramshackle building - where the reek of urine outside is overpowering - the teenager said forlornly: “It’s true that many people drown at sea.

1 month ago | thesun.co.uk | Oliver Harvey

GESTURING at the old convent that may soon house refugees, Paddy Kavanagh insists the government is “dumping their problem here in rural Ireland”. Many in his community agree. In driving rain, some 500 locals marched through the streets of this picturesque town huddled under their brollies, insisting “Enniscorthy says no”. Ireland was a nation that sent millions to start new lives in the UK, US and Australia, and talk of curbing immigration was once largely taboo.

2 months ago | thesun.co.uk | Oliver Harvey

WITH a Nazi grandfather guilty of crimes against humanity, controversial German politician Beatrix von Storch knows only too well what happens when extremism runs amok. I’m speaking to her not far from the site of the Berlin bunker where Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in 1945, leaving her relative, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, as leader of the disintegrating Third Reich.