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‘Time to Think Outside the Box, Keir Starmer: Open a Cross-Channel Safe Route for Asylum Seekers’
This is the real way to smash the people-smuggling gangs, writes Professor Derrick Wyatt
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‘I Predict A Riot: The Manufacturing of Islamophobic and Anti-Migrant Hate On Our Streets’
We must be honest about the fact that it is not only fringe rabble-rousers who have engaged in this damaging rhetoric, writes Adeeb Ayton
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Bibby Stockholm: A Year On, Campaigners Demand ‘Most Vulnerable Be Taken Off Scrapped Barge Immediately’
The Government announced the barge will close in January 2025 but figures released to Byline Times on ‘health incidents’ on the barge have reignited calls for the most vulnerable residents to be moved immediately
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How the Failing Asylum System Contributed to the ‘£22bn Black Hole’ – But Will the Labour Government Fix It?
Accommodation for asylum seekers awaiting Home Office processing amounted to £6.4 billion of the overspend
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‘A Person Lost Everything and We Call It Illegal Migration? It’s Not Fair’
The latest episode of the hit Media Storm podcast focuses on the more positive narratives around refugees that journalists could disseminate – and why they selectively choose not to
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The Big Questions Nigel Farage Should be Asked by the Media
Why is a party with so few elected representatives and even fewer ideas being given such an easy ride?
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Rishi Sunak Says no Rwanda Flights Will Take Off Before General Election – Spelling Likely Death of Toxic Scheme
The Prime Minister’s admission means the Government’s “dream” of sending refugees to the brutal Rwandan dictatorship looks all but over
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UK’s ‘Worst Hotel Chain’, Britannia Hotels, Makes Remarkable Profit After Joining Government’s Asylum Seeker Hotel Network
Britannia Hotels profits increased to £40 million in 2023, amid reports that at least 17 of the chain’s hotels have been block-booked by the Government for asylum seekers
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Rishi Sunak’s Rwandan Nightmare is Pushing His Government Beyond Reason
The Prime Minister’s immoral and obscenely expensive plan will only end in tears for everyone involved
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The War We Don’t Discuss: Protests and Vigils Planned in Solidarity with Sudan Amid Call for Media Attention
Activists are calling for the media to shine a spotlight on the state of the war and Sudan’s humanitarian crisis
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Hotel Chain Voted UK’s Worst Makes Tens of Millions a Year from Housing Asylum Seekers in Harmful Conditions
Andrew Kersley reports on the massive profits being made by the hotel tycoon dubbed the ‘Asylum King’.
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The Overton Window: A Migrant’s Tragedy
Migrants risking their lives to cross the US border is a huge political issue but also a quiet, devastating human tragedy
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‘The Opposite of War’: Calls for a Palestinian Visa Initiative in the UK
British-Palestinian families are appealing to the Home Office to institute visa programs for relatives stranded in war torn Gaza
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Unlawful Rwanda Scheme Set to Cost UK ‘Staggering’ £500 Million, National Audit Office Reveals
With the Government refusing to say how much the controversial asylum plan would cost, MPs commissioned the NAO to produce its own report
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London Council Breaches Human Rights Law After Subjecting Asylum Seeker to Degrading Treatment
The High Court ruled against Croydon Council in relation to its treatment of a disabled asylum seeker.
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The Refugees Turned Out on to Freezing Streets to Clear Rishi Sunak’s Asylum Backlog
The Prime Minister’s belated rush to clear his legacy asylum backlog is forcing refugees into destitution on Glasgow’s freezing streets, reports Nicola Kelly
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Home Office Can’t Say How Many Refugees it has Given ‘Safe Route’ Asylum to From Some of the World’s Most Dangerous Countries
A Freedom of Information request for the data by this newspaper was refused on cost grounds
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‘Get Brexit Done’ is now ‘Stop the Boats’: Is the Rwanda Bill the Conservatives’ Trojan Horse?
We again have some members of the Conservative Party arguing that the UK needs to abandon another European institution, writes former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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Deaths in the Channel: Survivors and Rescue Teams Feel Targeted by Plan to ‘Stop the Boats’
A year on from the tragic drowning of four people in the English Channel, Nicola Kelly reports on how the Government’s plan to “smash” the people smugglers involves further targeting their victims
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Asylum Waiting Lists Rocket by 236% as Migrant Housed on Cramped Barge Takes Own Life
A day after the suicide of a man aboard the Bibby Stockholm exclusive data obtained by this newspaper shows migrants waiting three years or more for a decision on their future has more than trebled in the past year
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‘In Fighting for the Cause of Refugees and Migrants, We Fight For Ourselves’
AC Grayling reflects on what immigration really means, how right-wing politicians are twisting that meaning to exploit xenophobia, and what can be done to counteract their rhetoric
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‘Are the Conservatives Willing to Sacrifice Northern Ireland for the Rwanda Scheme?’
What the Government seems to have overlooked is that the European Convention on Human Rights isn’t merely referenced in the Good Friday Agreement – it’s threaded throughout it, writes Emma deSouza
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‘Rishi Sunak Won’t Abandon Braverman’s Rwanda “Dream” – But It Won’t Slow the Boats’
There is no way of stopping people from trying to escape the awful conditions of their lives through the Rwanda scheme – another, sensible, solution is required, writes Brian Latham
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Meet the Man Making £26m a Year from the UK’s Dysfunctional Asylum System
Clearsprings received the most complaints of any company providing asylum seeker accommodation. It is privately owned by a Conservative Party Donor
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Liz Truss Suggested Settling Group of Sri Lankan Families Stranded on British Indian Ocean Territory in UK to ‘Prevent Mass Suicide’
As Foreign Secretary, Truss warned that the Government risked failing in its duty of care for the group which included at least 20 children
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‘The UN Refugee Convention Should Be Reformed – But Not in the Way Suella Braverman Thinks’
The UK could show global leadership by pushing for the international community to broaden its definition of refugees, writes former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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US Sanctions Rwanda Over Child Soldiers – As UK Sings President Kagame’s Praises
The latest sanctions stand in stark contrast to the UK Government’s often inaccurate descriptions of life in Rwanda, where it plans to send some asylum seekers
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Most Asylum Seeker Accommodation ‘Horrendous and Often Dangerous’ as Government Plans to Legalise Hazardous Housing
Suella Braverman plans to end inspection of this lucrative market as complaints mount about conditions
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Migration Policy Mired in Hyperbolic Rhetoric Won’t Help if it’s Targeted at the Wrong People
If the West really wants to end migration, there is a solution: spend more money in the countries migrants are fleeing.
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Rishi Sunak Should End His ‘War on Woke’, Say Voters
Exclusive new poll finds the public is far more tolerant of diversity and cultural change than the Government appears to believe, Adam Bienkov reports
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Rishi Sunak’s ‘100,000 Migrants Under Labour’ Lie is Proof of his Weakness
An increasingly desperate Prime Minister is resorting to false claims about his opponents in order to cling to office, writes Adam Bienkov
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‘For me to return to Afghanistan… It’s Death’: The Reality of Demonised Asylum Seekers
What are the forces driving refugees across the Channel? What are they fleeing? What are they hoping for?
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Home Office Creating New ‘Digital Hostile Environment’ with Targeted Social Media Ads
‘The “go home” vans were a scandal because people saw them in the street,’ one expert told this newspaper. ‘With these ads, if you are not the target demographic, then you will just never see them’
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Majority of English Channel Migrants Fleeing Armed Violence, Study Reveals
Well over half the recent migrants come from the top 15 countries globally hardest hit by explosive weaponry
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‘Not a Safe Country’: The Court of Appeal’s Decision in the Rwanda Case
With the Government’s flagship policy in legal disarray, will the Conservative leadership finally stand up for the rule of law or continue stoking their culture wars?
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Why is the Home Office Re-Opening Hotel Accommodation that is a Far-Right Target and from which Child Asylum Seekers Have Gone Missing?
The Government has said that, due to the rise in small boat crossings, it has to urgently use hotels to give unaccompanied asylum-seeking children a roof over their heads – but there are safeguarding concerns
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Refugee Week 2023: Where is the ‘Compassion’?
While Suella Braverman claims her approach to asylum is compassionate, Index on Censorship’s Assistant Editor explores how the reality is very different to the rhetoric
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Rishi Sunak Will Fail Key Pledges on Migrants, National Audit Office Reveals
The official watchdog says both the Prime Minister’s promises – to reduce asylum seekers backlog and stop housing them in hotels – will not be met
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‘Rishi Sunak Continues to Use Johnson’s Brexit-Fuelled Political Racism’
‘Stopping the boats’ and making immigration a key issue is the only strategy the Prime Minister has to keep a core Conservative base come the next election
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‘From Uganda to Rwanda: The British Political Class’ Ever-Present Hostility to ‘Aliens’’
Jon Bloomfield examines the similarities between the 1905 Aliens Bill and the current Illegal Migration Bill and inflammatory rhetoric around refugees
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Keir Starmer Wouldn’t Repeal ‘Morally Unacceptable’ Illegal Migration Bill
Labour says its migration plans would not require repeal of the law – which has been condemned by the Archbishop of Canterbury as immoral, reports Adam Bienkov
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Rishi Sunak’s New Far-Right Ally and the International Authoritarian Elite
Sunak’s warm welcome of the far right Italian Prime Minister exposes the increasingly authoritarian direction of his own Government, reports Adam Bienkov
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Stereotyped and Belittled: Ukrainians Suffer from UK Asylum Policy
Natalia Kogut and Maren Rohe explore the challenges Ukrainian refugees face accessing healthcare, housing and work under the Government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme
