Proposed changes to immigration system welcomed by some of the victims of ‘outdated’ rulesBritish nationality laws are to be reformed to remove a Read More
Mar 18, 2021
Windrush scandal
Jan 03, 2021
Women fight to help families torn apart by ‘racist’ deportation policy
Automatic expulsions after prison terms are leaving UK children without fathers, campaigners sayThe Home Office is refusing to review the forced Read More
Dec 13, 2020
Windrush payments to be fast-tracked and made more generous
Home secretary will announce radical reforms to compensation scheme after criticismRadical reforms to the Windrush compensation scheme are to be Read More
Dec 06, 2020
Windrush and the need for do-gooders
Rod Edmond says successive Tory home secretaries have obscured the plight of many victims of our immigration system, while Pat Staples wonders if we Read More
Nov 25, 2020
The hostile environment is indefensible. Now we know it’s unlawful too | Satbir Singh
After today’s damning EHRC report on the Windrush scandal, the policy that destroyed so many lives must be scrapped• Satbir Singh is chief executive Read More
Oct 14, 2020
Home Office hasn’t learned from Windrush | Letter
Campaigners and leaders of community and advocacy groups criticise Priti Patel for the lack of clear and concrete plans in response to the scandalWe Read More
Sep 29, 2020
The deportation of an autistic black man is an indictment of the UK’s racist justice system | Micha Frazer-Carroll
Osime Brown was convicted under ‘joint enterprise’ laws when he was a teenager. Now, at 21, he’s due to be flown to Jamaica Next week, a vulnerable Read More
Sep 07, 2020
Identity cards are no threat to civil liberties | Letters
Readers respond to an article by Gracie Mae Bradley on the intrusiveness of the digital identity system that the government is planningGracie Mae Read More
Jun 22, 2020
Windrush lawyer Jacqueline McKenzie: ‘The Home Office is treating people with contempt’
The lawyer representing 200 victims of the Windrush scandal says systemic racism is at the root of the problemWindrush scandal: cross-government group Read More
Apr 28, 2020
A key pillar of the hostile environment has just been backed by the appeal court | Hugh Muir
Judges ruled it’s OK for some landlords to discriminate against potential tenants – in effect saying: ‘Hey, bad stuff happens’Last week, with the Read More
Mar 21, 2020
The Windrush review is unequivocal: institutional racism played its part
Inspector Wendy Williams pulls no punches in her assessment of the ‘hostile environment’ policy – and the anguish it causedIn June 2018, the then home Read More
Feb 16, 2020
Deportations to Jamaica, the Shamima Begum case and Windrush betray a woeful regard for the notion of citizenship | Kenan Malik
Recent cases highlight the government’s negligence of a basic human right for many of its own citizens‘A transcendental power, more than any man Read More