The Independent on the tightened sanctions recently imposed by the U.S. on Iran. Far from halting Iran’s nuclear programme, it writes, the sanctions will serve only to increase the power of the regime at the expense of Iranian democrats.

Thousands of people whose application for asylum has been declined are now living destitute in Britain. Many of them have chose a life of abject poverty in the UK to the torture they fear they will face if they return home. Britain doesn’t care.