Results tagged “asylum” from Birmingham Post - News Blog

Hello everybody, and welcome to my blog!

Firstly, introductions: I'm Roshan Doug - a columnist on The Birmingham Post. For a number of years, as a freelancer, I've been writing feature articles - mainly on arts and politics - for this and a few other publications both here and abroad. Recently - and sporadically - I have also written and presented a handful of documentary features for BBC Radio 4.

I am delighted to announce that as from today, I'm going to be writing my posts regularly - once a day at least - on various topical issues. I hope that the style and perspective of these will entice you to take part in some of the discussions on this platform. In regard to topics, well, they'll be determined by whatever happens to be in the news - regionally, nationally and internationally.

As for my point of view, generally speaking - I'm not partisan to party politics. I'm very much apolitical. But, of course, that's not to say I'm not political. I am - deeply. It's just that my own politics is made up - not by any specific ideological leaning - but by a concern to keep things within reason.

So let's see how we get on...

Now I don't know about you but I was interested to learn last week that the government's proposing to tighten up immigration laws relating to citizenship, visas and, the introduction of English language testing. It reminded me of an experience a close friend of mine had a couple of years ago.