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Immigration and asylum

  • Kenan Malik

    Defending working-class interests requires more than simply opposing immigration

    Kenan Malik
    Trade union rights, the welfare state, austerity… these are the issues that really affect lives
  • Riot police clash with anti-immigration protesters outside a hotel in Manvers, which is being used as an asylum hotel, on 4 August, 2024.

    Public approves response to riots but Starmer’s appeal fades, new poll shows

    Most think Labour handled unrest well and agree with pursuit of those inciting racial hatred online
  • A man walks past graffiti saying 'Powell for PM' in 1968, the year Enoch Powell gave his ‘rivers of blood’ speech.

    Observer letters
    UK riots: immigration is a boon, not a curse

    After decades of hostility, politicians of all stripes must unite in promoting the many benefits that incomers bring to our nation
  • Members of the PCS union on the picket line at Heathrow airport

    Border Force staff at Heathrow to take strike action for most of September

  • Masked man throws missile among larger group of people in street.

    ‘Stop letting your mum down’: five takeaways from the UK riot courts

  • Forensic tents and an ambulance at an RNLI station

    Boat on which at least eight died in Channel was ‘wholly unsuitable’

  • LongRead: Xiaolu Guo WEB

    The long read
    A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life on the English coast

  • Anti-racism counter protesters gather in Walthamstow, London on 7 August.

    Governments’ anti-immigration rhetoric fuelled the rise of the far right

    Letters: Both Conservatives and Labour systematically created a hostile environment, writes Neil MacMaster. Also letters from Jabeer Butt, Paddy Eckersley and Margot Crookshank
  • Anti-racism activists protesting in London

    There’s no defence for racist riots

    Letters: Keith Oliver thinks we witnessed the old stain of fascism, not cries for help, while Diana Basterfield says schools should teach the development of racist attitudes. Plus a letter from Sheenagh Burns
  • Maya Goodfellow

    We keep hearing about ‘legitimate concerns’ over immigration. The truth is, there are none

    Maya Goodfellow
    Immigrants aren’t to blame for a society designed to benefit the richest – and it’s time Labour started telling the public so, says writer and academic Maya Goodfellow
  • Joyce Yang

    I’m an international student – we’ve been so demonised, no wonder Britain’s losing us

    Joyce Yang
    Tory ministers and Nigel Farage scapegoated us as part of their anti-immigration agenda. Does anyone see us as human? asks London-based writer Joyce Yang
  • Travellers arrive at Heathrow airport

    Heathrow says it lost 90,000 transfer passengers after new £10 fee

    ETA scheme introduced last year by the Conservatives is ‘devastating’ for competitiveness, the airport says
  • A hotel in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which was housing asylum seekers, after it was attacked by far-right rioters.

    If these riots came as a surprise, you’ve not been paying attention

  • Dina Al Shammari wearing sunglasses in family photo

    Family whose daughter died in Channel say they will attempt crossing again

  • Workers repair the road and garden walls around the Southport Islamic Society mosque, which was attacked by far-right extremists last month.

    UK riots expose double standards on far-right and Islamist violence

  • An anti racist demonstration held in Newgate

    Far-right rallies abandoned amid warnings of 10-year sentences

  • Two people die attempting to cross Channel in dinghy

  • The roots of the UK’s unrest lie in the warping of genuine working-class grievances

    Kenan Malik
  • ‘We’re too frightened to talk about immigration,’ warns top Labour party veteran

  • Extremism in all its forms has been ignored for too long by British politicians

    Sara Khan
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