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Farrukh Dhondy | As UK goes after boat people, leaks are found in Brexit exclusion

Farrukh Dhondy | As UK goes after boat people, leaks are found in...

“And the punters said to Bachchoo ‘Speak to us of Passion!’ And Bachchoo replied ‘It is that...

21 July 2023 7:12 PM GMT

Farrukh Dhondy | Dont Tories know immigration can bring UK into a globalised world?

Farrukh Dhondy | Don't Tories know immigration can bring UK into a...

“Poets paint in words, they say The waters are quiet in the bay Last night I saw a shooting star An echo comes now...

19 May 2023 6:30 PM GMT

$A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologizing to MPs for the for the \partygate\ fine and making statement to MPs on the situation in Ukraine following its invasion by Russia during the first session after the on Easter Recess, at the House of Commons, in London, on April 19, 2022. (AFP)$ Opinion

Farrukh Dhondy | Hedgie desperate to clean mess, as BoJo all out to...

“O Bachchoo, why not ‘we’ instead of ‘they’ And why not ‘and’ in place of...

24 Feb 2023 6:40 PM GMT

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at the plenary session of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022. (Photo: AP)

Charles Marquand | Amid Europe tumult, will UK rejoin single market?

It’s been a long while since I last wrote for these pages and much has happened since. Two major events stand out,...

19 Jan 2023 6:37 PM GMT

Cover photo of Between You, Me and the Four Walls by Moni Mohsin (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | A frothy retelling of the journey of Pak & the world in...

Yet another book on Moni Mohsin’s charming Social Butterfly, hurrah! For those who came in late, this political...

5 Nov 2022 7:55 PM GMT

Rishi Sunak addresses Conservative Party members during a Conservative leadership election hustings at Wembley Arena in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Farrukh Dhondy | Are days already numbered for Hedgie Sunak? Third...

“Beauty is in the mind of the beholder The eye has no capacity to judge Pride doesn’t seem to precede a...

4 Nov 2022 6:35 PM GMT

Britains Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party, Liz Truss, leaves from Balmoral Castle in Ballater, Scotland, on September 6, 2022, after meeting with Britains Queen Elizabeth II and being invited to form a Government. (Photo: AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Can a â€˜flexibleâ€™ Liz Truss usher in...

Hurtling from one crisis to another, Britain has chosen a new Prime Minister whose ambition has seldom been reined...

6 Sep 2022 6:45 PM GMT

More seriously, Brexit has caused a shortage of health service staff from doctors, to nurses, auxiliaries and ambulance drivers. (Representational Image. AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Turning human' migrants into a political weapon: UK...

Some commentators and Twitterers insist that they be called 'humans, not migrants'

26 Nov 2021 9:25 PM GMT

The shortages, Prime Minister BoJo has already proclaimed, will force industry and haulage companies to pay higher wages which will then turn the UK into a contemporary superpower. Representational Image. (AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Brexit's effects hit UK harder: Gig' workers bear the...

The ships' departure will lead to the imports not reaching industries and consumer goods not reaching the shelves of...

17 Oct 2021 7:39 PM GMT

In this file photo taken on October 17, 2018 Students hold up Sinn Fein anti-Brexit placards during a rally against Brexit and any hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland outside Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland. (Photo: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | Brexit triggers panic buying: Can this Angela rescue...

There has been 'panic buying' over Christmas gifts as well

14 Oct 2021 2:15 AM GMT

The shortage of fuel to vehicles is not the only acute crisis that Britain is suffering. (AFP Photo)

Farrukh Dhondy | I told you so UK fuel crisis shows fears on Brexit...

No, gentle reader, the supply of fuel had not been curtailed by the oil-fields of the world being flooded by...

1 Oct 2021 8:15 PM GMT

It was a long complicated Bill but after four-and-a-half years of bickering and three Prime Ministers, Parliament approved the Bill by 11 pm. Then the Queen, as Head of State, signed it near midnight and the UK had legally approved of Brexit (Representational Image: AFP)

Kishwar Desai | UKâ€™s â€˜freedomâ€™ at midnight; Queenâ€™s NY honours...

2020 had one last blow to deliver. Partly responsible was the super-super spreader mutation of Covid-19

3 Jan 2021 11:02 PM GMT