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

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

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.

Analysis: Arise Sir Dido, Britain’s Newest Culture Warlord

Sandeep Sandhu

Would-be NHS chief Dido Harding's attack on foreign-born health service workers is a tactical and dangerous erasure of British history, ripped straight from the Tory culture war playbook, writes Sandeep Sandhu.

Opinion: I’m a Trans Woman Suing the Japanese Government. If I Win, I’ll Be in the Country’s First Same-Sex Marriage

Elin McCready

A historic court case is seeking to force Japan to live up to the Olympic values it’s planning to cash in on this summer.

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

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.

Novara Live: Priti Patel’s Harsh New Asylum Rules

Priti Patel has announced harsh new plans to restrict people’s right to asylum in Britain. We speak to Maya Goodfellow about the Tory war on refugees.

Person's arm being injected with a vaccine

Report: Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame

Sophie K Rosa

Despite the government's assurances that anyone, regardless of their settlement status, can receive the coronavirus vaccine, many migrants are still afraid to do so. Sophie K Rosa looks at how the hostile environment has created a culture of fear around healthcare.

The Stansted 15 Have Won – What Can We Learn From Their Four-Year Legal Battle?

Ali Tamlit, Helen Brewer, Laura Clayson and Nick Sigsworth

Last Friday, the so-called Stansted 15, a group of activists found guilty of terror-related offences after stopping a deportation charter flight, won their appeal to have their convictions overturned. Four of the members reflect on the last four years of legal proceedings: what happened, what went wrong and what comes next.

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

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.

boy wearing hoodie and rucksack lit against a sunset

Report: Unable to Reunite With Their Families Post-Brexit, Child Refugees Face Untold Dangers

Lauren Crosby Medlicott

Brexit will make it far harder for asylum seekers to be reunited with their families. Unaccompanied children risk falling out of the asylum system and into the hands of smugglers and traffickers, reports Lauren Crosby Medlicott.

Opinion: The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This

Nadia Whittome

Activists and lawyers should not have had to intervene this week to stop the Tories deporting people with a legal right to be in the UK, writes Nadia Whittome MP. The Jamaica deportation flight shows that for the Home Office, if you're black, poor and have a foreign passport, that's enough to fast-track you out.

Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

Aurelien Mondon

The idea that Trump and Brexit were working-class revolts is a dangerous myth, one the president's recent electoral defeat has done little to dispel, writes Aurelien Mondon.

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

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.

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Rivkah Brown

Exclusive: The UK is rushing to return asylum seekers to the EU before Brexit makes it harder to do so. Data obtained by Novara Media shows the UK made up to 154% more transfer requests to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and Denmark this year, an uptick lawyers say has resulted in a catalogue of harmful and unlawful failings. Rivkah Brown reports.

Long Read: The West is Dying – of Narcissism

Arun Kundnani

Conservatives often frame demographic change as western cultures 'committing suicide'. The left must challenge this, writes Arun Kundnani, because as individuals and as peoples, we can only grow through our encounters with others; in pursuing a purification of the west, conservatives foster the very cultural death they claim to fear.

five women standing in a row wearing face masks

Opinion: Of Course the Right Fears Demographic Change – It’s Going to Deliver a Progressive Majority

Ash Sarkar

The ruling coalition of white property owners is ageing out of the electorate. A progressive majority, made up of young tenants and communities of colour, is set to replace it.

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: How We Won: The Activists and Lawyers Who Stopped Asylum Seekers Being Evicted in Glasgow

Lauren Gilmour

A coalition of activists and lawyers took on the Tories' anti-immigrant agenda in Glasgow, using direct action and legal challenges to stop a government-contracted company making hundreds of vulnerable people street homeless. Lauren Gilmour reports.

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

Alice Figes

As regional elections approach later this month, and with a second wave of coronavirus expected, the Italian far right and centre are engaged in a race to the bottom on immigration. Alice Figes looks at the latest chapter in Italy's long history of xenophobia.

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

Nadia Hasan

Analysis: Arise Sir Dido, Britain’s Newest Culture Warlord

Sandeep Sandhu

Opinion: I’m a Trans Woman Suing the Japanese Government. If I Win, I’ll Be in the Country’s First Same-Sex Marriage

Elin McCready

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

Sophie K Rosa

Novara Live: Priti Patel’s Harsh New Asylum Rules

Report: Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame

Sophie K Rosa

The Stansted 15 Have Won – What Can We Learn From Their Four-Year Legal Battle?

Ali Tamlit, Helen Brewer, Laura Clayson and Nick Sigsworth

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

Rivkah Brown

Report: Unable to Reunite With Their Families Post-Brexit, Child Refugees Face Untold Dangers

Lauren Crosby Medlicott

Opinion: The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This

Nadia Whittome

Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

Aurelien Mondon

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

Rivkah Brown

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Rivkah Brown

Long Read: The West is Dying – of Narcissism

Arun Kundnani

Opinion: Of Course the Right Fears Demographic Change – It’s Going to Deliver a Progressive Majority

Ash Sarkar

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

Fahad Ansari

Report: How We Won: The Activists and Lawyers Who Stopped Asylum Seekers Being Evicted in Glasgow

Lauren Gilmour

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

Alice Figes

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

Nadia Hasan

Analysis: Arise Sir Dido, Britain’s Newest Culture Warlord

Sandeep Sandhu

Opinion: I’m a Trans Woman Suing the Japanese Government. If I Win, I’ll Be in the Country’s First Same-Sex Marriage

Elin McCready

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

Sophie K Rosa

Novara Live: Priti Patel’s Harsh New Asylum Rules

Report: Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame

Sophie K Rosa

The Stansted 15 Have Won – What Can We Learn From Their Four-Year Legal Battle?

Ali Tamlit, Helen Brewer, Laura Clayson and Nick Sigsworth

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

Rivkah Brown

Report: Unable to Reunite With Their Families Post-Brexit, Child Refugees Face Untold Dangers

Lauren Crosby Medlicott

Opinion: The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This

Nadia Whittome

Opinion: The Left Must Stop Buying the Right’s Lie That They’ve Won the Working Class

Aurelien Mondon

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

Rivkah Brown

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Rivkah Brown

Long Read: The West is Dying – of Narcissism

Arun Kundnani

Opinion: Of Course the Right Fears Demographic Change – It’s Going to Deliver a Progressive Majority

Ash Sarkar

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

Fahad Ansari

Report: How We Won: The Activists and Lawyers Who Stopped Asylum Seekers Being Evicted in Glasgow

Lauren Gilmour

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

Alice Figes

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