GERMANY HAS just announced that Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy for refugees has been overturned in practice as well as forgotten in principle: only 280,000 people sought asylum in 2016 – down by 600,000 on 2015. Merkel’s original response to ...

The UK economy’s report card for 2016 reads “has made some progress, but could do better”. It has done well in terms of stock market performance and house prices – but these measures do not guarantee long term security or ...

Although the number of overt racist and anti-muslim attacks has slowed down from its post-Brexit peak, prejudice and misunderstanding in the general population continues to run high – and could boil over again. Ipsos Mori has now released the results ...

Emdad Rahman I often come across interesting discussions and notions of coaching – the so-called glamour and the mega huge wage packets. I personally have not met a coach in any sport who does it for the money. Take, for example, ...

UK taxpayers are to fund the erection of a “keep the refugees out” wall in Calais, Home Office Minister Robert Godwill has confirmed. Building will begin any day. The wall, which will be 4 metres high, will seal the last ...

An Imam and his assistant died in a cold-blooded shooting on the streets of New York in the early afternoon of 14th August (local time). Reports indicate that the two men were walking down a road in the Queens district ...

Emdad Rahman Participants at an East End project have come up trumps after successfully training as football coaches during a two week summer programme. The Tower Project is a community-based voluntary sector organisation and award-winning leading service-provider for children and adults ...

President Obama has confirmed that there is no evidence that Omar Mateen, who murdered 49 people in Orlando’s Pulse nightclub two nights ago, was on an IS/Daesh mission. While Mateen did pledge loyalty to IS/Daesh shortly before or during the ...

Muhammad Ali was a man of principle – and an example to others of how standing by your principle will eventually be rewarded. He was probably only the second most famous, and most courageous, black man on the planet – ...

Reports from the USA say that a number of “unbound” delegates have just announced that they will give their votes to Donald Trump. The announcement, if confirmed, will give Trump enough delegates to win the nomination to be the Republican ...