Volunteers at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) have taken flight en masse amid a “diversity agenda” row between a Syrian refugee and his former manager. Dr Paul Morrison, 72, had managed Coquet Island, a puffin nesting island off the Northumberland coast, for 38 years. But he was suspended over allegations he mistreated a Syrian refugee colleague, Dr Ibrahim Alfarwi, like a modern-day slave. Dr Alfarwi was subsequently handed Coquet Island – which sparked a severe backlash, with colleagues calling the sacked manager a “truly devoted” worker who treated his staff “like famil…
