S1: The EU Charter (3/7), Equality, Windrush, and News in Latin

In this Episode Rich and Carola are not dithering around…. well, actually they are. They can’t help it, so this episode is longer than usual but with less tea. Whilst covering Chapter 3 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Equality), they rant about UK detention centres, Windrush, and how the UK’s political shift to the right is threatening basic human rights. On a more pleasurable note, they cover some more interesting linguistic titbits, from the end of Finland’s News in Latin to the never implemented plans of making the Charter into an 80 minute epic, multi-cultural poem.

Sources:

European Parliament

• The European Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU
• EU Charter app - The FRA has developed an EU Charter app: a fundamental rights one-stop-shop for mobile devices
• Charterpedia

Articles about UK Detention Centres

• The Windrush Scandal (Wikipedia)
•  The Stanstead 15 (Wikipedia) 
• The Migration Observatory (Oxford University) - The Migration Observatory informs debates on international migration and public policy  
• THE GUARDIAN: Worse than prison: life inside Britain's 10 deportation centres. Diane Taylor (11 Oct 2018) 
• BBC: The secret world of the UK's immigration removal centres. Catrin Nye  (12 May 2014) 
•  THE TRIBUNE: Close the Detention Centres. Kacj Buck (15 May 2019)