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Immigration

We need to stop turning on migrants and understand where the real power and blame lies
Dr Shabna Begum

We need to stop turning on migrants and understand where the real power and blame lies

Dr Shabna Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust, writes about why the government take 'decisive action' and change its narrative, policy and direction on migration
'It will be a crisis': Adult social care pushed to the brink by government's overseas care worker ban
social care
Social care

'It will be a crisis': Adult social care pushed to the brink by government's overseas care worker ban

Letters: Immigration is good for a country
Letters

Letters: Immigration is good for a country

A false claim about homeless veterans and asylum seekers sparked outrage. Here's the reality
Asylum protests

A false claim about homeless veterans and asylum seekers sparked outrage. Here's the reality

Asylum hotel protests are spreading. Who's really behind them?
Asylum hotels

Asylum hotel protests are spreading. Who's really behind them?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Is it too late to prevent anarchy in the 'Yookay'?
UK riots

Is it too late to prevent anarchy in the 'Yookay'?

A legacy of tragedy: What has changed one year on from the Southport killings?
UK Riots

A legacy of tragedy: What has changed one year on from the Southport killings?

Migrant workers are holding Britain together – but we're still treated like we don't belong
social care crisis sees care workers experiencing low pay
Munya Radzi

Migrant workers are holding Britain together – but we're still treated like we don't belong

Yes, James Gunn's Superman is an immigrant story. Just as it always has been
Superman in the 2025 film Superman
Film

Yes, James Gunn's Superman is an immigrant story. Just as it always has been

The housing crisis isn't a competition between helping 'our own' and supporting others
A housing estate in England
Nosheen Malik

The housing crisis isn't a competition between helping 'our own' and supporting others

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn't go far enough, campaigners say
a tent on the street
Refugees

Home Office extends 56-day refugee move-on period – but it doesn't go far enough, campaigners say

Why we need more migrants in political office
Yvette Cooper
Lara Parizotto

Why we need more migrants in political office

Delivery bikes outside hotels prove only one thing: The ban on work for asylum seekers must be lifted
Deliveroo delivery person on a bicycle
Nathan Philips

Delivery bikes outside hotels prove only one thing: The ban on work for asylum seekers must be lifted

Tory MP Robert Jenrick says mass migration to blame for rising rents. Here's what he's not telling you
Conservative MP Robert Jenrick
RENTING

Tory MP Robert Jenrick says mass migration to blame for rising rents. Here's what he's not telling you

Will Reform's Britannia Card really help low-income households – or is it a 'giveaway to the rich'?
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage
Reform UK

Will Reform's Britannia Card really help low-income households – or is it a 'giveaway to the rich'?

I'm a refugee. My favourite thing about Britain? The weather!
Tumukunde Uzomukunde

I'm a refugee. My favourite thing about Britain? The weather!

Copying Nigel Farage gives him a credibility he hasn't earned
Reform UK leader and Clacton candidate Nigel Farage
Renaud Foucart

Copying Nigel Farage gives him a credibility he hasn't earned

Asylum seekers share their dreams for future: 'I want my children to have a safe life'
Morteza Ehsani, Sammi Ghaderi and Navid Hjyani.
Asylum seekers

Asylum seekers share their dreams for future: 'I want my children to have a safe life'

Social services threatened to take refugee's newborn baby away in row over horror hostel
A stock image of a baby's foot
Asylum accommodation

Social services threatened to take refugee's newborn baby away in row over horror hostel

Cut off and uncared for: This is what life is like for asylum seekers in the UK
Asylum seekers

Cut off and uncared for: This is what life is like for asylum seekers in the UK

Wales wants to be the world's first 'nation of sanctuary' for asylum seekers. Is it possible?
Welsh Refugee Council event at the Senedd, Cardiff Bay for the Nation of Sanctuary
Asylum seekers

Wales wants to be the world's first 'nation of sanctuary' for asylum seekers. Is it possible?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Britain's embrace of Vietnam's 'boat people' is a lesson in how we welcome refugees, 50 years on
Refugee Week

Britain's embrace of Vietnam's 'boat people' is a lesson in how we welcome refugees, 50 years on

I'm a gay asylum seeker – the UK's immigration system is designed to dehumanise people like me
immigration and refugeee rights protestors hold up placards reading:
Immigration

I'm a gay asylum seeker – the UK's immigration system is designed to dehumanise people like me

Refugees need more help to avoid becoming trapped in homelessness
a homeless person on the street
John Perry

Refugees need more help to avoid becoming trapped in homelessness

Refugee children deserve our compassion – and a chance to build safe, happy lives
Children survey the ruins in Khuzaa, Gaza, in 2015.
Lynn Perry

Refugee children deserve our compassion – and a chance to build safe, happy lives