The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
THE criminalisation of seafarers is nothing new for Nautilus International.
All too often, seafarers are made the scapegoats when something goes wrong at sea, and as the trade union for maritime professionals, Nautilus is tasked with defending its members when they are unfairly blamed for accidents.
However, the British government’s proposed Nationality and Borders Bill represented a new — and very serious — legal threat to every seafarer working around the British coast, something that the union simply could not tolerate.
More than 100 coastal nations use cabotage laws to protect domestic shipping and seafarer jobs. SASCHA MEIJER of Nautilus International says it’s time for Britain to follow suit
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
The government’s new immigration proposal risks creating a society where rights are earned, not guaranteed, warn feminist groups Project Resist and FiLiA in a joint statement


