Two British human rights campaigners, investigating the treatment of migrant workers in Qatar have gone missing. Ghimire Gundev and Krishna Upadhyaya were last seen on Sunday when they sent panicked texts to colleagues saying they were being followed by police.
Speaking to ITV News, the Norwegian charity employing the men said it had yet to receive any information from the Qatari authorities despite numerous requests. A spokesperson said: Continue reading
Compared with its 2010 General Election Manifesto, UKIP’s manifestos for the recent Euro and local elections were remarkably light on detail but long on saloon bar, right wing sentiment – open borders/immigration, leave the EU, allow smoking in pubs and the sort of petty nationalism that allows us to see some similarities – but not exact comparisons – between UKIP and the Poujadism that flourished very brightly, but very briefly, in France in the 1950s.
Pierre Poujade was the leader of a right wing populist movement of the lower middle class and self-employed who rallied against big business and public administration and, of course, the unions. Poujadists shot to prominence in France in the 1956 election with 53 deputies (MPs) but lacking a clear policy other than what it was against Poujadism collapsed within two years. Continue reading
