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Image shows drug paraphernalia strewn on a cobbled street.

Analysis: Westminster Is Holding Scotland’s Drug Policy Hostage And It’s Killing People

by Andre Gomes

Scotland has the highest rate of drug deaths in Europe. But new Conservative plans will only punish users – with deadly results, writes Andre Gomes.

Opinion: We Saved 14,000 People From Drowning in the Mediterranean—And Italy Wants to Imprison Us for It

by The Iuventa Crew

In 2017, the crew of search and rescue ship Iuventa was arrested by the Italian authorities. As their trial begins, they write about their ordeal.

Analysis: The UK Border Regime Extends a Whole Lot Further Than France

by Zoe Gardner

From military support at the Polish border to funding detention centres in Africa, the UK's draconian immigration policy goes far beyond its own borders, writes Zoe Gardner.

Report: Are Random Police Drug Swabs Legal?

by James Greig

The Met’s recent drug-busting operation in Shoreditch has drawn widespread criticism. But what should you do if you are approached by police? James Greig finds out.

Report: A Deportation Flight Just Left for Vietnam. Why Was It So Hard to Stop?

by Rivkah Brown

Despite the valiant efforts of activists, the Home Office flight went ahead as planned on Wednesday afternoon. Rivkah Brown looks at why it couldn’t be stopped.

Home secretary Priti Patel smiling against the backdrop of a UK flag

Opinion: Priti Patel Isn’t Shipping Refugees to Rwanda Any Time Soon

by Nadia Hasan

The home secretary’s latest scheme to scare off asylum seekers? Send them 6,500 miles away. It isn’t going to happen - but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be worried.

Report: Clearsprings: The Worst Asylum Housing Provider You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

by Sophie K Rosa

You’ve never heard of them, but asylum seekers have. Clearsprings is one of the many companies to which the government outsources asylum accommodation, and widely known to be the worst.

Priti Patel stands beside a number of French border guards in Calais, all wearing face masks.

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

by Rivkah Brown

Rule changes snuck in by the Home Office in December theoretically allow the department to send asylum applicants anywhere in the world. In practice, more people will be forced into inhumane and indefinite immigration detention. Rivkah Brown reports.

Report: Deportation Flights to the EU Have Increased Threefold, As the UK Rushes to Return Asylum Seekers Before Brexit

by Rivkah Brown

Exclusive: The UK has chartered as many deportation flights to the EU so far in 2020 as in the past three years combined, in a bid to accelerate the removal of asylum seekers before Brexit. Rivkah Brown reports.

Opinion: Tory Lawyer-Bashing Is a Long-Held Tradition – With Dangerous Consequences

With an alleged far-right extremist recently charged with attempting to launch a terror attack at a solicitor’s firm in London, and Priti Patel’s condemnation of ‘activist lawyers’ appearing to have triggered it, solicitor Fahad Ansari argues that such troubling denigrations are part of a long and reckless Tory campaign against legal professionals in the UK.

Report: Asylum Seekers Isolated in Hotels Are Facing Far-Right Violence

by Matthew Ponsford

The Home Office has moved thousands of asylum seekers from detention centres to hotels to ‘enable social distancing’ during the pandemic. Now, these new arrivals are facing not only deportation, but the threat of far-right violence. Matthew Ponsford reports.

Report: ‘It’s Been Too Long’: The Windrush Compensation Scheme is Setting Victims Up to Fail

by Sophie K Rosa

Confronted with a failing compensation scheme offering hugely delayed and "insultingly" low payments, Windrush victims argue they have no choice but to fight for just renumeration. Sophie K Rosa reports.

Long Read: Detained Migrants Are Workers. They Belong in the Trade Union Movement

by Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis

With detained migrants encouraged to work for slave wages, rather than treating them as victims devoid of agency, trade unions must instead bring them into the movement, write Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis.

Opinion: Third-Sector Workers’ Grievances Point to the Shortcomings of the Charity Sector

by Benjamin Morgan

St Mungo’s homelessness workers have voted to strike over employment conditions, while raising the charity’s history of working with the Home Office. Benjamin Morgan argues more third-sector workers need to make the link between their own struggles at work and charities' failures to stand up for the rights of vulnerable people.

Two Years On, NHS Hospitals Are Still Demanding Some Patients Pay Upfront for Life Saving Treatment

by Izzi Whelan

Hostile environment policies have been widely condemned as racist and brutal, with the upfront charging of migrants - including people with cancer and pregnant women - at NHS hospitals considered one of the gravest injustices of all. Yet two years after the policy was introduced, and despite the Windrush scandal, vulnerable people are still dying after having been denied life saving treatment, writes medical student Izzi Whelan.

Sajid Javid is now at the helm of the government’s ‘serious violence strategy’, launched in March to address the UK's knife crime epidemic. But just because he’s the first BME home secretary it doesn’t mean he’ll implement the multi-agency reforms needed to tackle the problem, argues Huda Elmi.

Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate

by Rudy Schulkind

The private companies that run Britain's detention centres have repeatedly failed to protect the rights, dignity and safety of the people they imprison. But the Home Office has created a system in which it is incredibly difficult to hold them to account.

Tag: Home Office

Analysis: Westminster Is Holding Scotland’s Drug Policy Hostage And It’s Killing People

by Andre Gomes

Opinion: We Saved 14,000 People From Drowning in the Mediterranean—And Italy Wants to Imprison Us for It

by The Iuventa Crew

Analysis: The UK Border Regime Extends a Whole Lot Further Than France

by Zoe Gardner

Report: Are Random Police Drug Swabs Legal?

by James Greig

Report: A Deportation Flight Just Left for Vietnam. Why Was It So Hard to Stop?

by Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Priti Patel Isn’t Shipping Refugees to Rwanda Any Time Soon

by Nadia Hasan

Report: Clearsprings: The Worst Asylum Housing Provider You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

by Sophie K Rosa

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

by Rivkah Brown

Report: Deportation Flights to the EU Have Increased Threefold, As the UK Rushes to Return Asylum Seekers Before Brexit

by Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Tory Lawyer-Bashing Is a Long-Held Tradition – With Dangerous Consequences

by Fahad Ansari

Report: Asylum Seekers Isolated in Hotels Are Facing Far-Right Violence

by Matthew Ponsford

Report: ‘It’s Been Too Long’: The Windrush Compensation Scheme is Setting Victims Up to Fail

by Sophie K Rosa

Long Read: Detained Migrants Are Workers. They Belong in the Trade Union Movement

by Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis

Opinion: Third-Sector Workers’ Grievances Point to the Shortcomings of the Charity Sector

by Benjamin Morgan

Two Years On, NHS Hospitals Are Still Demanding Some Patients Pay Upfront for Life Saving Treatment

by Izzi Whelan

A Day in the Life of a Marxist Immigration Barrister

by Marxist Barrister

New Face at the Home Office, But No New Answers to Knife Crime

by Huda Elmi

Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate

by Rudy Schulkind