6 h. ago French police plan to use nets to stop small boats ‘risks turning Channel into a graveyard’

France has been under mounting pressure from the UK to intercept migrant vessels at sea amid growing public anger over illegal migration

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6 h. ago Let us try safe, legal routes before putting up nets to stop the boats

Editorial: Tough action is needed to bring order to the asylum system, but that cannot include putting migrants’ lives at even greater risk

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9 h. ago ‘Pictures unite!’: how pop music fell in love with socialist infographics

When Austrian philosopher Otto Neurath invented the visual language of Isotypes, it was to democratise education. As a new exhibition shows, it ended up influencing pop art, graphic design and electronic musicians from Kraftwerk to OMDWhen Otto Neurath died in Oxford some 80 years ago, far away from his native Vienna, he was still finding his feet in exile. Like many a Jewish refugee, the economist, philosopher and sociologist had been interned as a suspected enemy alien on the Isle of Man, along with his third wife and close collaborator Marie Reidemeister, having chanced a last-minute life-saving escape from their interim hideout in the Netherlands across the Channel in a rickety boat in 1940.Thanks to Neurath’s pioneering use of pictorial statistics – or “Isotypes” as Reidemeister called them, an acronym for “International System of Typographic Picture Education” – he left behind an enormous legacy in the arts and social sciences: it is the language through which we decode and an...

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13 h. ago French police to use nets to stop small boat migrants crossing Channel

New tactics to stop boats set to be introduced despite warnings there is ‘no way’ to carry out such manoeuvres safely

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30 h. ago Mahmood faces calls for compassion and clarity over hardline asylum policies

Home secretary urged to explain statement that asylum admissions will start at ‘a few hundred’ peopleShabana Mahmood is facing demands for compassion and clarity after it emerged that only a “few hundred” asylum seekers would initially be permitted to come to the UK under three new schemes for refugees.The home secretary had justified a series of hardline policies – such as the deportation of families and the confiscation of assets from claimants – by saying she would also open the “safe and legal” routes for “genuine” claimants. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Woman, 21, found dead in boat yard named and picture as man arrested on suspicion of murder

Corinna Baker was found at the Netpool Boat Yard in Cardigan, Wales, on Saturday

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3 d. ago Man held on suspicion of murder after woman, 21, found dead in Welsh boatyard

Man, 29, arrested after Corinna Baker found at Netpool Boat Yard on River Teifi in CardiganA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 21-year-old woman was found dead in a boatyard in west Wales, police said.Corinna Baker was found shortly after noon on Saturday at Netpool Boat Yard, located on the River Teifi in Cardigan, Ceredigion. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Woman found dead in boat yard in Cardigan as police launch murder investigation

The woman's body was found at Netpool Boat Yard, in Cardigan, Wales, at around midday on Saturday. A 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and the suspect remains in police custody

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2 w. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Aljaz puts touching tribute to Len Goodman in routine

Strictly Come Dancing fans were left in tears as several stars paid tribute to Len Goodman on Saturday night

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