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Byline Times analysis of community cohesion and sectarian attempts to break it through the racialisation of poverty, Islamophobia as policy, the asylum system as spectacle, and the culture war waged against plural Britain.
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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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Major Political Reform Could Secure Key Labour Target Voters, Study Suggests
“I think the whole thing is thoroughly broken at this point” a focus group participant said
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When Lost Humanity Breaks Down Healthcare
Penny Pepper reflects on the concerning and uplifting behaviours she witnessed during her four-week stay in hospital this summer
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