Immigration

Right-wing parties keep promising to ban foreigners from social housing. Here's why it won't work
A housing estate in England
Housing crisis

Right-wing parties keep promising to ban foreigners from social housing. Here's why it won't work

Reform UK and the Tories think evicting ‘foreign nationals’ from social housing will fix the UK housing crisis. There is a more obvious solution
Migrants are twice as likely to work nights than Brits. The care system would collapse without them
A clock with a moon and clouds to illustrate night carers
Essay

Migrants are twice as likely to work nights than Brits. The care system would collapse without them

Why Britain needs an anti-racism strategy right now
a placard reading: 'everybody vs racism'
Stephen Walcott

Why Britain needs an anti-racism strategy right now

Asylum seekers face repaying £10,000 accommodation costs: 'Another example of performative cruelty'
Immigration

Asylum seekers face repaying £10,000 accommodation costs: 'Another example of performative cruelty'

Keir Starmer has resigned. What is his legacy on the biggest issues in Britain?
Politics

Keir Starmer has resigned. What is his legacy on the biggest issues in Britain?

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I had virtually nothing when I became a mum. I needed help from a baby bank to get the essentials
Cost of living

I had virtually nothing when I became a mum. I needed help from a baby bank to get the essentials

Do settled migrants really get 'immediate access' to social housing?
social housing

Do settled migrants really get 'immediate access' to social housing?

Is pretending to be gay an easy route to claim asylum?
Asylum seekers risked being left
asylum

Is pretending to be gay an easy route to claim asylum?

Reform UK wants to put migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas. Is it legal?
Reform UK

Reform UK wants to put migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas. Is it legal?

Labour’s hostile asylum policies are a dangerous waste of money
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood
Asylum

Labour’s hostile asylum policies are a dangerous waste of money

Overseas domestic workers are abused by employers. The UK visa system makes it worse
Eleanor Lyons is the independent anti-slavery commissioner.
Eleanor Lyons

Overseas domestic workers are abused by employers. The UK visa system makes it worse

Home Office pilot saved 1,000 refugee families from homelessness. Then rules changed
a man with a Refugees Welcome sign in his backpack
Immigration

Home Office pilot saved 1,000 refugee families from homelessness. Then rules changed

Everybody to Kenmure Street: Immigration protest film tells a remarkable story of people power
Documentary

Everybody to Kenmure Street: Immigration protest film tells a remarkable story of people power

Letters: Big Issue's Changemakers showed that in dark times it's important to have hope
Letters

Letters: Big Issue's Changemakers showed that in dark times it's important to have hope

A new kind of politics is coming our way
John Bird

A new kind of politics is coming our way

Sir Jim Ratcliffe says immigrants are 'colonising' the UK. Here's the truth
Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Immigration

Sir Jim Ratcliffe says immigrants are 'colonising' the UK. Here's the truth

The Qatar World Cup sparked calls for boycotts. Where's the uproar about the United States in 2026?
US president Donald Trump with FIFA president Gianni Infantino at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Ravishaan Rahel Muthiah

The Qatar World Cup sparked calls for boycotts. Where's the uproar about the United States in 2026?

Reform and the anti-immigration lobby need a history lesson 
John Bird

Reform and the anti-immigration lobby need a history lesson 

What happens to undocumented migrants not lucky enough to be like Paddington Bear?
Migration

What happens to undocumented migrants not lucky enough to be like Paddington Bear?

'A Muslim is someone who strives for peace': How this young imam is challenging Islamophobia on- and offline
Islamophobia

'A Muslim is someone who strives for peace': How this young imam is challenging Islamophobia on- and offline

The message that non-white people are unwelcome in the UK got louder in 2025 – here's the proof
protesters surround a police van
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan

The message that non-white people are unwelcome in the UK got louder in 2025 – here's the proof

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Could Santa be a refugee? This is what his Christmas asylum journey would look like
Ala Sirriyeh

Could Santa be a refugee? This is what his Christmas asylum journey would look like

No room at the inn for refugees? Many Brits are happy to welcome strangers in need
Dr Krish Kandiah

No room at the inn for refugees? Many Brits are happy to welcome strangers in need

Labour's immigration shake-up is like the hostile environment on steroids
National Demonstration for Migrant Workers’ Rights protest in Birmingham
Munya Radzi

Labour's immigration shake-up is like the hostile environment on steroids

I'm a vulnerable migrant. The Home Office treated me like an animal to be controlled and broken
Malachi

I'm a vulnerable migrant. The Home Office treated me like an animal to be controlled and broken