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OurKingdom works to investigate and illuminate the crisis of democracy in Britain and analyse how its failings can be redressed. We encourage original debate untrammelled by party political loyalties. We ask how we as citizens can secure liberty, human rights, self-government and real democracy.

UK Border Agency insists that Sri Lankans pay to get maimed so they can claim asylum

By Frank Arnold(1). Burnt with metal rods and cigarette butts? Maybe so, says the Border Agency, but you paid someone to do this to you. A surgeon with expertise in torture scars argues that ‘self-torture by proxy’ is a dangerous…