Billy Briggs

Billy Briggs is a freelance investigative journalist based in Scotland, United Kingdom who has reported from many places across the world including Bosnia, Gaza, Guatemala, Haiti, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Northern Ireland. He focuses on exposing human rights abuses and his articles have been published by - among others - Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, Sunday Herald, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, New Zealand Herald, British Broadcasting Corporation and Al Jazeera. Briggs has won a raft of awards for his journalism including prizes from Amnesty International and the European Union. He is also editor of a news service provided by the International Network of Street Papers and is part of the team behind Scotland's first not-for-profit investigative media organisation, Scottish Inquirer, to be officially launched in January 2015. Aside from reporting, he lectures on journalism for Bauer Academy.

The UK Is Outlawing Homelessness

The number of people arrested for begging in London has doubled in recent years, alongside increases in the numbers of people sleeping on the streets. Yet new legislation to criminalize aspects of homelessness targets the symptoms, not the issues fueling them.

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AP I GBR XEN BRITAIN LONDON

LONDON --- For some 17 years, Christopher Ubsdell was periodically homeless and struggling to survive on the streets of London, often wandering around the Charing Cross area of the British capital. He says that in recent years he has witnessed attitudes hardening toward the poorest people in society. “What you have is a wide-ranging political

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Nae To Independence, So What’s Next For Scotland?

Voters rejected the referendum that would have granted Scotland independence. Yet the pro-independence movement is still gaining strength, and politicians and analysts are eager to point out that the referendum is “only one of a number routes” for achieving that goal.

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GLASGOW --- Violence erupted in Scotland last week following a referendum in which the nation rejected leaving the United Kingdom to become an independent state. The historic vote, which could have ended 307 years of political union between Scotland and England, saw the largest voter turnout in British history, with 85 percent of the electorate at

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Nearing An Independence Referendum, Scottish Voters Speak Out

Scottish voters will decide on Sept. 18 whether to split up a union that is about three times older than the oldest person living there. MintPress talks to people on both sides of the issue, who are eager to explain why or why not Scotland should break away from the U.K.

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Britain Scotland

GLASGOW, Scotland --- On Sept. 18, some 4.2 million people in Scotland will cast their votes in arguably the most important referendum ever to be held in the United Kingdom. Indeed, these are momentous times in Britain, and if Scotland votes Yes for separation next week the nation will become the world’s newest state in what would be a seismic

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