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‘Labour’s Borders Bill Is a Gift to the Far-Right That Won’t Stop Boats but Will Cost Lives’
The bill will cause untold human suffering while also still failing to deter irregular migration, argues Nathan Phillips
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How Right-Wing Media Spread the False Claim That One in Twelve Londoners Are ‘Illegal Migrants’
There is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public, in order to push for Trump-style mass deportations, argues Zoe Gardner
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Nearly 40% of Asylum Seekers Housed at Controversial Ex-RAF Site Are Torture Victims
Some 580 asylum seekers are housed at RAF Wethersfield where radiological contamination and unexploded ordnance has been found
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Patriotism & Pluralism: the Power of the English Language Comes from Its Migrant Past
Insular definitions of the national past overlook the very things we should take pride in
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Why Some Labour MPs Fear a Kemi Badenoch led Conservative Party
The Conservative Party’s new leader has the potential to do a lot of damage, whether or not she wins the next general election
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Conservative Frontrunner Robert Jenrick Plans to ‘Win a Culture War’ with Young People
The favourite to succeed Rishi Sunak as Conservative party leader plans to launch an “air war” with younger voters
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Yvette Cooper’s Plan to ‘Smash the Small Boat Gangs’ is Doomed to Fail, Warn Border Force Whistleblowers
Home Office officials and border staff tell Byline Times that the plan to tackle small boat crossings is little more than a rebranding exercise
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‘To Prevent Migrant Deaths, Labour Must Stop Courting Nationalism and Trying to Outdo the Conservatives on Immigration’
Labour members should organise within Constituency Labour Parties and trade union branches to pass motions in support of migrants and bring these into effect by mobilising for solidarity actions on our streets and in our workplaces
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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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Self-Harm Rates in UK Immigration Centres Soar Following Report That Found ‘Worst Conditions Ever Seen’
In July a report on the UK’s largest immigration detention centre found it was “filthy” and “dilapidated” and had drug problems
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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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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Yvette Cooper’s Post-Rwanda Immigration Plans
The new Labour Government should abandon all of the failed hostile approaches to migration and asylum pursued by its predecessors, argues Zoe Gardner
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The Longest Suicide Note in History: How Britain Rejected the Conservative Hard Right
Rishi Sunak’s historic defeat was a direct result of a decade of ideological hard-right policies that have decimated our political and social fabric
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From Russia With Likes: Nigel Farage Dominates Social Media During General Election – Boosted by Bots Stoking Racism
The Reform Party is hovering around 18% of the vote, yet Farage’s and his party’s Facebook posts generated six times more reactions and shares than either Labour or the Conservatives and their leaders
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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 Truth About Immigration That Sunak and Starmer Aren’t Willing to Tell you About
Both party leaders are promising to slash immigration numbers without being honest about the big costs it will inevitably bring to our economy and public services
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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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Six Things Keir Starmer’s ‘Six Steps’ Tell us About the Labour Party
The Labour leader’s new six ‘first steps’ for Government reveal a lot about the kind of administration he plans to lead
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Labour MPs are ‘Furious’ with Starmer Over Defection of Hard-Right Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke
One Labour MP described the decision to take Natalie Elphicke as a “disgrace” that would “come back to bite us”
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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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Migrant Rights Groups Launch Fresh Push to Ensure Migrants’ Voices are Heard in UK Elections
A new tool lets migrants in the UK know when and how they can vote – navigating the confusing patchwork of rules
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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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‘Untold Damage to the UK’s Reputation’: Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights Slams the Rwanda Bill
Britain’s standing on human rights is in “jeopardy” and Good Friday Agreement undermined by the Safety of Rwanda Bill
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‘The UK’s Immigration System is Islamophobic and Racist. Expanding Prevent into it Will Re-traumatise Refugees’
The extension of the controversial counter-extremism program into immigration and asylum processes risks embedding racism at our borders
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Is the Media Helping Richard Tice Sanitise Far-Right Responses to Immigration?
Adam Barnett wonders why the Reform Party and its leader are treated as mainstream when they’re not
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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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Rishi Sunak’s Attempts to ‘Vice-Signal’ His Way to Victory are Starting to Backfire
The Rwanda scheme is the perfect example of the politics of ‘vice signalling’. So why isn’t it working?
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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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‘Emmnon’ Revealed: New Anti-Immigration Pressure Group Emerges at 55 Tufton Street
Max Colbert delves into a new organisation arguing for ‘action on the streets’
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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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Of Barges and Banishments: What the Bibby Stockholm Reveals About Our Dark History
Suella Braverman’s asylum barges are tied up with Britain’s imperial past, writes Iain Overton
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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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Home Office Faces Legal Challenge Against ‘Appalling’ Use of Bibby Stockholm Barge to House Refugees
“Human beings do not belong in barges or camps. The correct way to house people is to house them in communities.”
