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How I was cancelled by the BBC for telling the truth about immigration

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By Harriet Sergeant
| Yahoo Verified
Leon Neal/Getty Images The two homeless teenagers begging on a street in Manchester cheered up over a hot chocolate and doughnuts. They were only 17. His leg was in plaster after a fight. She had mental health issues. Both had been in care, but they assured me that they watched out for each other. Certainly there was no one else looking after them. Why not stay in a hostel for the homeless, I asked. I was interviewing them for a BBC Radio Four documentary on the rise of homelessness.
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How I was cancelled by the BBC for telling the truth about immigration

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By Harriet Sergeant
| AOL UK Verified
It was 2016 when I interviewed two homeless teenagers begging on the streets of Manchester. They were both only 17. The boy had his leg in plaster and the girl had mental health issues after being abused by an uncle. They cheered up over some hot chocolate and doughnuts. They were besotted with each other and, beneath the dirt, they were attractive, engaging and heartbreaking. I asked why they weren’t staying in a homeless hostel.
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The inconvenient truth about cannabis and mental illness

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By Harriet Sergeant
| The Spectator Australia Verified
Mash’s older brother was the same age as Anthony Williams when he slaughtered a stranger in a brutal and random attack. He was in the grip of a psychotic disorder caused by cannabis. We do not yet know what drove Williams, a 32-year-old African Caribbean man, to allegedly try to murder ten people during a 14-minute knife rampage on a train. But Mash is in no doubt cannabis often plays a part in attacks like these. ‘In my community smoking weed is normalised,’ he says.
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