Robert Verkaik

  Freelance Writer,

Robert David Verkaik, 11-10-1962 in Folkestone, Kent, UK, he can be found in tree nr. 7

London

Crime and Justice, Education, United Kingdom
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Writer. War and peace. Mostly peace. Traitor of Colditz out NOW. Also Posh Boys, Defiant and Jihadi John. @CitizensAdvice
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Let’s make the old school tie a thing of the past
6 months ago

By Robert Verkaik Verified

The Times VerifiedJudges in England and Wales make up the most socially exclusive profession in the country, the Social Mobility Commission and the Sutton Trust concluded after examining more than 6,000 individuals at the top of the country’s elite professions. Their 2019 report, Elitist Britain, concluded that 65 per cent of senior judges were educated at an independent school, and 75 per cent attended Oxford or Cambridge universities.
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Judge criticises Home Office amid immigration crisis
7 months ago
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Twice deported Albanian migrant uses child he had with British woman in effort to remain in the UK
a year ago
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By Patrick Sawer Verified, Robert Verkaik Verified, Tracey Kandohla Verified
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The Telegraph VerifiedAn Albanian drug offender who was twice ordered to leave the UK tried for a third time to stay, arguing that having a family life and a child gives him the right to remain under human rights laws. Blerim Ismalaj, 30, was deported from Britain in January 2013 after being sentenced to 16 months in a Young Offenders Institute for a drug offence. He twice returned to the UK, the last time in 2019 when he had a child with his British partner.
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Russian oligarch handed £1m from frozen assets to pay luxury lifestyle expenses
a year ago
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By Robert Verkaik Verified, Patrick Sawer Verified
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Yahoo Style Singapore Vladimir Putin and Petr Olegovich Aven - AFP via Getty ImagesA Russian oligarch under investigation for breaching UK sanctions against Vladimir Putin has been granted living expenses of £60,000 a month by the Government to maintain his luxury lifestyle. These include fees to keep one of his children at a private school in the UK for the following summer term.
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Why You Won’t Get Rich
a year ago
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By Robert Verkaik 
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oneworld-publications.comFrom the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain’s epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought about unprecedented economic shame: Amazon warehouse workers living in tents, nurses turning to foodbanks, London firemen commuting hundreds of miles to work. Even those higher up the ladder are losing their grip on the life they were promised.
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Resist knee-jerk reform of ancient treason act
a year ago
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By Robert Verkaik
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The Times VerifiedAmong the dizzying array of new policies being aired by candidates for the leadership of the Conservative Party, expect to hear proposals for tough laws to tackle terrorism. Tom Tugendhat has recently championed a reform of the ancient law of treason so that Islamist terrorists who have betrayed their country can be tried in the UK and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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