No one should face winter alone. As the weather gets colder, people seeking safety are forced to navigate the asylum system without support. Our Winter Appeal will double your donation. https://donate.refugee-action.org.uk/page/180644/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=CC2526_Social

A snapshot of how the big parties are handing power to the far right. Reform benefiting from years of the Tories and now Labour relentlessly and wrongly talking about "illegal" migration with reference to channel crossing arrivals, 99% of whom seek asylum and are entitled to arrive however they can.

We are at the stage of British politics where David Lammy and Keir Starmer are seemingly willing to let hunger strikers in prison die. The situation is extremely concerning. They have been in prison, without trial, for over a year. www.instagram.com/p/DSVg7zFiOi...

I am desperately worried for 20 yr old Qesser Zuhrah who is dangerously ill at HMP Bronzefield. It remains very unclear how soon she will be transferred to hospital. Qesser is on day 46 of hunger strike. It should not take this long to get the help she needs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"without immigration there will be no Europe, no civilisation & no one left to argue about it. Of course we’re talking about different things. The Trump administration appears to see “civilisation” as a white & western property, threatened by Black & Brown people" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This framing is open to misinterpretation. Many key EU leaders are unfortunately just as keen as Starmer on attacking human rights and asylum. Their Pact on Migration and Asylum, in force next year, is a product of that aim, and Mahmood's proposals for the UK included many near-identical measures.

This is how Europe's political leaders are choosing to mark Human Rights Day...

I finally starting streaming Succession in October. For some reason I thought there were six seasons, so when I finished Season 4 last week and realised it was over, I was disappointed. Now I have to make do with real-life global media corporations acting out the plot. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

According to IOM Libya, 478 people were intercepted and returned to Libya in the first week of December. 📣Let us remind you that people returned to Libya are not only prevented from seeking asylum, but also forced back to horrific conditions, including detention, forced labour & sexual violence.

The level of taxpayer-funded violence at the UK-France border revealed in this report is sickening. We support @humansforrights.bsky.social calls for an independent public inquiry into the UK government’s role in the increase in violence and deaths at the border in recent years.

In response to a crisis of access to justice, the UK government wants to scrap juries. In response to a national mental health crisis it wants to scrap diagnoses. In response to a crisis of asylum rights, it wants to scrap the protection from "inhuman and degrading treatment". This is a pattern.

🚨EMERGENCY AT THE UK-FRANCE BORDER 🚨 Today we are launching our new collaborative report reveals that people attempting to cross the UK-France border are subjected to horrifying levels of state violence. www.humansforrights.org/state-violence

The proposals to limit Article 3 are absolutely terrifying. I struggle to think of something that has come out of any UK government which has concerned me more. This must be resisted absolutely.

“Kill more. Kill everyone. Kill with our weapons” The new competitive West’s embrace of “ceasefire” means heavy continuous murderous fire

This is so disgusting.

All in one day: Immigration Minister lied about me with a slur. Wes Streeting then tried a different attack. And the Evening Standard write yet another attack piece because I dare to say we need to tax the rich. Want to help create our better future? Join.greenparty.org.uk

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

He admits "causing grievous bodily harm with intent, affray, wounding with intent and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm", while "victims include two babies and six other children". But it's still a "crash" and not an "attack", because whiteness.

"Her story justifies the crackdown. It moralises the crackdown. And it silences criticism of the crackdown. Sold as an origin story from within an immigrant and racialised experience, the purpose is to imbue her politics with sacred authenticity" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Um, so there are now French Police Nationale wandering about in Dover carrying firearms.

Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.

One particularly depraved aspect of Labour’s proposed jewellery seizure policy is that, after months of stating their goal was to crack down on ‘smuggling gangs’, they’ve proudly settled on a policy tantamount to saying, “Whatever these smugglers don’t exploit from you, we’ll have instead.”

The Labour government has successfully triangulated itself to somewhere to the right of the Tories, Reform, and "Tommy Robinson" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

One of the most striking features of our political age is that utter moral cowardice and punching down is routinely presented as "toughness". Continuing the long, racist tradition of blaming and punishing refugees and other marginalised groups for problems you caused is the opposite of "tough".

We are quoted alongside other organisations that work with refugees here. The Home Secretary's plans for UK asylum policy, to be formally announced later this afternoon, will make this a dark day for people seeking safety in the UK, for our wider communities, and for human rights more broadly.

The call is coming from inside the house

"The BBC exhibits symptoms of the West’s wider moral breakdown over Gaza – the failure even to name genocide, let alone stop it, when a Western ally is the perpetrator"

Just in time for panto season: HE'S BEHIND YOU!

I wrote for the Big Issue about Sudan and how the UK's foreign policy choices cause forced displacement while the UK then denies responsibility for refugees and refuses safe routes to seek asylum. www.bigissue.com/opinion/suda...

spending a billion pounds of public money to make thousands of members of the public unemployed - just after new figures showed general unemployment rising - while threatening tax hikes because there's not enough public money to spend? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wrote for the Big Issue about Sudan and how the UK's foreign policy choices cause forced displacement while the UK then denies responsibility for refugees and refuses safe routes to seek asylum. www.bigissue.com/opinion/suda...

Killing people to “balance the books”

Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

The BBC happily calls anyone from swastika-waving, streetfighting American neo-Nazis to broadly liberal, one-nation Tory peers "conservative" but simply cannot arrive at a "clear definition" when it comes to democratic socialism?

Mamdani responded to the smears by putting out an ad in Arabic and speaking Arabic in his victory speech. The lesson is to never apologize for who you are and never cede to your opponents the idea that their voters are somehow more legitimate than your own voters.

when people tell you who they are, several times, from a loudspeaker with closed captions, consider believing them

Also genuine recognition that there are different types of voters/constituencies who have a valuable voice in elections. UK politics speaks only to perceived voters and ignores everyone else. Large part of why we are in the position we are in today.

The Greek edition of Global Politics (with a slightly longer title than the English one) is out now!

Raising higher and additional rates is one thing but surely even this so-far nightmarish Labour government wouldn't seriously think the answer to 14 years of Tory austerity, an ongoing cost of living crisis, and deep, deadly poverty is to pile a basic rate income tax hike top of their welfare cuts?

This statement in defence of the ECHR on its 75th anniversary has achieved huge support from organisations across the migration and asylum, human rights, racial justice, and other sectors. Attacks on the rights of migrants harm everyone. www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/almost...

Well we know the colour of his skin and country of his birth because that was the information police deemed it most important to share yesterday, immediately upon announcing his arrest. Which is a terrifying indictment of how far the British state has capitulated to far-right political movements.

Matthew Goodwin, who is still welcomed by the BBC and other mainstream media outlets, now explicitly promotes a white supremacism identical to Enoch Powell's ("the West Indian or Indian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman ... in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still")

Confected national "migration crisis" vs. real socio-economic one: "only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was one of the three most important issues facing their community... half the 52% who said it was one of the biggest problems facing the country as a whole" news.sky.com/story/manufa...

Shocked to learn that press and politicians aren’t faithfully reflecting the spontaneous lived concerns of ordinary folk: "for most people, concerns around immigration are not based on personal experience”

Son of a toolmaker. Human rights lawyer. Prime Minister. Arms dealer to autocratic, authoritarian and genocidal regimes. Complainer about people displaced by those regimes seeking asylum in his country. Remover of refugees' rights to asylum, citizenship, family reunion, dignity. What a journey.

Hey Keir Starmer, get the memo? We’ve delivered thousands of messages to Number 10 from our supporters, with the help of some digi-vans! People are fed up with politicians choosing failed policies and scapegoating over investing in all communities. Time for real change.

This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

My contribution to the i's piece on "asylum crisis". It's not a crisis of "border security" but of people seeking safety suffering and dying at the border and in the asylum system. As they are mainly people of colour, it's also a crisis of racial justice. inews.co.uk/opinion/fix-...

Just landed back in UK and immediately see Labour trying to house asylum seekers in barracks. A strategy that was horrendous under the Tories and opposed by Labour at the time. Labour aren't in charge of themselves at this point, Reform are. There's more than these options but they won't listen.