Why economic insecurity – not immigration – should be Labour’s top electoral priority theconversation.com/why-economic...

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme. British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

What is the potential impact of the proposed reforms to the UK's asylum system? Some measures, like restricting family reunion, may plausibly deter some people from coming to the UK. Yet the evidence is mixed, and insufficient to say whether any effects will be particularly large.

It’s a breach of trust’: fear and frustration over countries’ push to return Syrians home. Syrians who have rebuilt their lives abroad face uncertainty over their futures amid hardening of attitudes www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan. Proposed plan would apply to tourists of all countries, including those not required to get a visa to visit the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🚨 Vacancies at Maastricht in research programme "Europe: Society, Politics and Global Order" (do share!) - Assistant Prof Political Philosophy in Euro Democracy - Assistant Prof Euro Political History - PostDoc Disinformation and Euro Democracy vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/search/?crea...

Shabana Mahmood has pointed to the prohibition on torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment in the ECHR as a problem when it comes to deporting people from the UK. She does not want to deport people if they are at risk of being tortured, but …

Step 1. Government promotes hostility towards asylum seekers. Step 2. People grow more hostile towards asylum seekers. Step 3. Government concludes that the solution to growing public hostility to asylum seekers is to be more hostile to asylum seekers. Step 4. What do you think?

UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Government minister: “It’s an operational issue for the police, and government doesn’t get involved in operational issues for the police.” But: “[The decision] is just completely and utterly unacceptable.” I think you are getting involved mate!

On the Guardian United States news page today;

Mahmood stakes the credibility of the nation state on its ability to control border crossings. Whatever you think of nation states, this is a fairly minor aspect of what they do …

Care workers ‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers. Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK charities say toxic immigration rhetoric leading to threats against staff. Voluntary organisations forced to introduce extensive security measures to protect staff and property www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Doreen Lawrence alleges Home Office was involved in Met spying on family. ‘Egregious’ police surveillance was sanctioned by government department, mother of Stephen Lawrence tells inquiry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Gaza PhD student ‘heartbroken’ as family blocked from entering the UK. Manar al-Houbi’s husband and children refused entry despite her winning a scholarship to cover tuition fees, living costs and housing for them all www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance. Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance. Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Militia strikes kill at least 60 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group. Drone and artillery strikes by RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter in western city, says resistance committee www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Ugly scenes in our neighbourhood where right wing thugs are putting flags back up after the council removed them. Menacing atmosphere out there and many people who don’t look “right” will be scared to go out.

Of course Jenrick’s comments were racist but the important point is that he intended them to be whatever he says subsequently. He’s wants the racist vote which has traditionally belonged to the Conservative Party but which Reform have nabbed.

Happy, stressed, overwhelmed: Palestinians evacuated from Gaza start their studies in UK. Abdallah, 27, and Soha, 31, describe adjusting to their new lives after leaving their war-torn home. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show. Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The question for UK political parties is do they want the racist vote? The Greens and LibDems clearly don’t. ReformUK clearly does. Jenrick’s version of the Tory party clearly does. How about the Labour party?

How come Jenrick isn’t going to some village in Suffolk and complaining about the lack of ethnic diversity? Why only inner cities?

Theresa May warned the Tories against being the nasty party but Jenrick has embraced that identity - nasty vicious politics.

Enjoying international cuisines makes people more tolerant, UK study finds. Frequent and varied eating found to reduce likelihood of perceiving immigrants as ‘cultural or economic threats’ www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

Angry that fascists came to march in our great city of Bristol but proud of its defiance of their hatred.

British political parties now competing over who will deport more migrants. Reform UK - 600,000 in first term; Tories - 150,000 a year (around the same then); Labour - Shabana Mahmood yet to put her bid in.

The UK is not experiencing a migration crisis. It is experiencing a political crisis as far right politicians have succeeded in creating a general anxiety about migrants which the mainstream political parties feel they need to respond to by competing to feed that anxiety.

Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

LA 2028 Olympics: fears of mass displacement and homeless sweeps as Trump threat looms. The city has been here before, with arrests during the 1984 Olympics that had long-term consequences for the city’s Black and brown people www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Iran may release hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees into Iraq and Turkey. Tehran considers move as part of multi-pronged offensive after bombing of nuclear sites and restoration of sanctions www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person. The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to skip meals www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Kenyan activists abducted after joining opposition rally in Uganda. Pair had crossed border to support presidential campaign of reggae singer Bobi Wine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Mahmood warns that we have to question legal constraints in order to tackle "this crisis." By 'this crisis' she is talking about immigration to the UK, but the reality is that there is no crisis here. The crisis is Labour's panic about Reform UK.

Starmer offers a very old- fashioned leftist view of migration- migrants are essentially a reserve army of exploited labour used to control wages. And it’s a crude type of lifeboat ethics- migrants from poorer boats want to get into ours and will make it sink lower in the water.

Starmer: “It is not compassionate leftwing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages.”

West Africans deported by the US were denied their rights, says lawyer. Men were sent on from Ghana despite ‘risk of torture, persecution or inhumane treatment’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Just to illustrate how much worse it's got, I have received more abuse over the past year and a bit - including death threats and a large volume of antisemitism - for what I write than in the previous 15 years of covering migration and the far right put together.

More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters. At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ice puts more than 10,000 people in solitary in a year – and figures are rising under Trump. Study shines light on growing numbers of vulnerable people being placed in solitary confinement in migrant jails. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘We’re still in the dark’: a missing land defender and the deadly toll of land conflict on Indigenous people. Julia Chuñil is one of 146 land defenders who were killed or went missing last year, a third of them from Indigenous communities. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Brazilian musician identified as victim of 1976 killing by Argentina military. The bossa nova pianist Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Júnior went out for cigarettes after a concert in Buenos Aires – a forensic team has finally revealed his fate www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

UK deportation of Eritrean man to France under ‘one-in, one-out’ halted by judge. The 25-year-old claims to be trafficking victim and won high court challenge in what may prove major blow to Labour policy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The “they’re not all racists” discourse misses the point. It was a racist event. This was organised by far right racists with a far right racist agenda, and it will boost the white supremacist movement in the UK. This was all about racism and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

A little song for everyone having so much fun with flags in the the UK; m.youtube.com/watch?v=vZUM...

Venezuela says 11 killed in US boat strike were not gang members amid reports vessel was returning to shore. Interior minister says ‘murder has been committed’ while US Congress demands justification for attack www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

South Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquest 48 years after death in police custody. Death of anti-apartheid activist in 1977 after police beat him into a coma sparked outrage across the world www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...