Life in limbo: how the asylum debate is reshaping a coastal town
Bournemouth offers a microcosm of the UK’s asylum system – here, support networks, political tensions, and long waits shape everyday...
Read moreDetailsGeneviève is a Politics graduate from the Institut d’Études Politiques in Bordeaux and the LSE. She worked for many years in educational publishing as a writer and editor. Now retired, she divides her time between Bournemouth, London and Deux-Sèvres. She believes there can be no democracy without quality information and fair representation.
Bournemouth offers a microcosm of the UK’s asylum system – here, support networks, political tensions, and long waits shape everyday...
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Read moreDetailsGeneviève Talon compares the British House of Lords to other second chambers and concludes that reform is needed but should...
Read moreDetailsGeneviève Talon tells us about the joy her newly found hobby of mudlarking has brought her and her fellow mudlarkers...
Read moreDetailsGeneviève shares the views of her colleagues at a Bournemouth Foodbank distribution centre. Food banks are only a temporary stopgap...
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Read moreDetailsAnne Hidalgo is favoured by the moderate French Left to challenge Macron for the French presidency but she needs full...
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