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Analysis: How the Hell Did Police Think There Would Be 100 Riots?

Simon Childs

Wednesday’s far-right no-show followed irresponsible and ill-informed speculation by the police, writes Simon Childs. Where exactly are they getting their intelligence?

A group of French police officers stand in shadow as a group of dark-skinned men look on

Feature: Paris Is Banishing Its Homeless Before the Olympics. A Group of Child Migrants Isn’t Having It

Christophe Domec

A new law is sending unhoused people from the French capital to ten temporary accommodation centres around the country, a move the government maintains has nothing to do with the Olympics. A group of child migrants is fighting back. Christophe Domec reports.

Opinion: The Tories Are Fast-Tracking Misery While They Still Can

Moya Lothian-McLean

Punitive, miserable policies are the death rattle of a government facing electoral armageddon, argues Moya Lothian-McLean.

Marine Le Pen, a woman with blonde hair, sits among red seats

Analysis: That’s It, Marine Le Pen Is Writing France’s Laws Now

Cole Stangler

Last week, Macron's coalition pushed through an immigration bill described as France's most regressive in 40 years, and which Le Pen has declared an ‘ideological victory’. That’s what happens when you try to outgun the far right, argues Cole Stangler.

Report: Just Stop Oil Blocks Bus Transporting Asylum Seekers to Bibby Stockholm

Clare Hymer & Richard Hames

Activists blocked a bridge in order to stop the forced return of migrants to the barge.

Young children push themselves through the steel bars of a border fence

Opinion: On Migration, the Polish Left Has All But Given Up

Dan Davison & Ewa Pospieszyńska

Rather than challenge far-right xenophobia head-on, the Polish left is swerving it, while advising voters to skip the upcoming immigration referendums. This spineless avoidance serves nobody, write Ewa Pospieszyńska and Dan Davison.

A hotel used to house asylum seekers in Rotheram.

Report: The Home Office Is Forcing Child Refugees to Share Bedrooms With Adult Strangers

Sophie K Rosa

Unaccompanied children are being made to share bedrooms with adult strangers while waiting for the Home Office to decide about their asylum claims. Sophie K Rosa reports

A group of protesters gathered on the grass outside a hotel

Report: Asylum Seekers in London Are Protesting Poor Living Conditions and Long Wait Times

Sophie K Rosa

A series of asylum-seeker-led protests this year has drawn attention to deteriorating conditions in the overcrowded, poor-quality accommodation refugees are forced to live in.

Report: The Organiser of an Anti-Migrant Protest to Protect Women Is a Woman Beater

Simon Childs

Philip Milo Gregory spread disinformation about a rape case to promote a protest against an asylum seeker hotel.

A far-right protester at a demonstration outside a hotel in Rotherham.

Feature: Asylum Seekers in South London Are Resisting Removal to a Bedfordshire Hotel Targeted by the Far Right

Charlotte England

A group of asylum seekers has been resisting eviction from a south London hotel for the last three weeks. But layers of outsourcing mean they don't even know who's trying to move them. Charlotte England reports.

Novara Live: Channel Crossing Deaths; Qatar Gift Corruption; Mick Lynch Exclusive

Four tragic migrant deaths in the Channel, a Qatar corruption scandal and the London Fire Brigade in ‘special measures’. Plus an exclusive interview with one Mr Mick Lynch of the RMT union. With Moya Lothian-McLean, Aaron Bastani and Polly Smythe