Friday, 04 November 2011 00:49 |
By Rima Saini
The third conference in the RSA, Samosa and City University series was held at City’s Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, and thus seemed to take on a much more academic student-focused angle with some intelligent and hard-hitting questions from members of the audience.
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Sunday, 30 October 2011 21:31 |
By Pervez Hoodbhoy
Six years ago, while on a speaking tour of nearly 25 schools, colleges and universities across India, I discovered that only a handful of students had ever seen a living, breathing Pakistani. None had heard an academic from across the border speak. A 12-year old school student, who obviously did not know Hindi and Urdu were similar, wondered aloud how a real Pakistani could be speaking their language. For these puzzled students, Pakistanis are alien people belonging to an adversary country, not next-door neighbours.
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Sunday, 30 October 2011 21:19 |
By Ben Mitchell
We’re starting to get used to the sight of people camping out in tents throughout a number of cities in the world. We have a pretty good idea of what the ‘Occupy movement’ wants; Occupy London has issued its own mini-manifesto.
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Sunday, 30 October 2011 20:57 |
By Rima Saini
With an inspiring discussion that many would loathe to conclude, the second lecture in the joint series of RSA conferences organised in conjunction with the Samosa and City University explored the relationship between Britain, Pakistan, and the Pakistani Diaspora.
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Tuesday, 25 October 2011 23:40 |
By Donna Covey
A Migration Observatory report published on Sunday, ‘thinking behind the numbers’ (pdf), shows that for all the government’s efforts to appease the public with a harsh stance on immigration – David Cameron’s calls last week for the public to ‘shop’ their illegal immigrant neighbours; tougher questions in the British citizenship test; and not to mention home secretary Theresa May’s infamous cat anecdote - they are hitting the wrong notes when it comes to tuning in to public opinion.
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