Comment: Miliband’s canny political attack provided a moral victory on Syrian refugees
Ed Miliband deserves credit for a significant moral and strategic victory on the issue of Syrian refugees. It’s just a shame we have a prime minster who needed to be convinced.
Comment: We have turned our back on the Christians of Syria
Godfrey Bloom column: As usual, the West has forsaken Middle East Christians in the name of geo-political advantage. Syria is just the latest case and Ukip leader Nigel Farage is right to raise it.
WATCH: Bennett: Cameron’s immigration rhetoric is ‘dangerous and toxic’
Green Party leader Natalie Bennett used her New Year message to warn against a “dangerous, toxic” debate on immigration and urged David Cameron to admit Syrian refugees.
Christians only: Nigel Farage drops Syrian refugee call
Nigel Farage has retreated from his call for the UK government to take Syrian refugees into the UK, saying that only Christians from the country should be allowed in.
Analysis: The Syrians we’ve seen have survived the worst persecution imaginable
Dr Russell Hargrave of Asylum Aid on the horror Syrian refugees have survived – and the obstacles to their safety in Europe.
Syria falls apart… but Britain offers no places at all to refugees
Britain accused of failing in its responsibility to Syria, after Amnesty International criticises its failure to offer a single place to refugees fleeing the fighting
Relief in western capitals as Syria’s chemical weapon equipment is destroyed
There was celebration in London, Paris and Washington today, after it was reported that all Syria’s chemical weapon production equipment had been destroyed.
Comment: We can help Syria if we stop being so macho
The opportunity for political negotiation in Syria is real. Will we help, or are we only interested in bombing?
Syria: Hague ‘hopes’ Russians can be trusted
Britain will watch Russia’s approach to the fledgling Syrian chemical weapons deal “very carefully” in the coming days, William Hague has warned.
Comment: Syrians won’t benefit from this unworkable chemical weapons fudge
Even if Syria complied with the Russian initiative, the regime has enough conventional and biological weapons to continue their assault on the Syrian people.
