In rural Shropshire a quarter of a million buys you a fairly decent new build house. Hence there is some anger from locals, whose kids struggle to get on the housing ladder, that 21 homes on a new estate at Stoke Heath have been bought by Serco to house 83 asylum seekers who will be living there for free while funded on benefits. But to me the real absurdity of the asylum laws is revealed by the 1 family of asylum seekers already on site. That is Muhammad Nadeem, Shamaila and their four kids.
707 days ago
…summer naturally made me think of my great Uncle David Cochrane, not just the manner of his death in 1931 … married Lesbia Cochrane, the sister of David. David Cochrane went missing in April 1931 while walking near …
731 days ago
…a bit more about the death of my Great Uncle David Cochrane but also a much longer piece about Operation … the Mincemeat article but more prominently in the David Cochrane tale for he was her son and there we will also … Sir George, the unwitting villain of the peace in David Cochrane’s death and also more critical players in …
1383 days ago
…most cackhanded intervention after the death of David Cochrane. A third married HAL Fisher, an MP, Minister, …