Immigration

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

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

Reform UK has set out plans to introduce a Britannia card that will tax rich non-doms to give to the poor. But will the Robin Hood tax help those on low-incomes or be a ‘billionaire bonanza’?

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

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

Tumukunde Uzomukunde tells Big Issue about finding her place in Britain as a refugee

Copying Nigel Farage gives him a credibility he hasn’t earned
Renaud Foucart

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

Nigel Farage’s ideas gain traction not only because of their repetition in the media but because voters come to perceive them as valid

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

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

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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?
Asylum seekers

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

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

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
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
Lynn Perry

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

Integration is not a buzzword. For refugees in the UK, it’s a lifeline
Awssan

Integration is not a buzzword. For refugees in the UK, it’s a lifeline

If Labour really wants to protect women, it must restore domestic workers’ rights
Marissa Begonia

If Labour really wants to protect women, it must restore domestic workers’ rights

This housing project claims it could save Labour millions on housing asylum seekers in hotels
Homelessness

This housing project claims it could save Labour millions on housing asylum seekers in hotels

‘I was dying in silence’: How childcare becomes a daily battle for survival for migrant families
Immigration

‘I was dying in silence’: How childcare becomes a daily battle for survival for migrant families

No, Keir Starmer, immigration isn’t turning Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Here’s why
Tim Naor Hilton

No, Keir Starmer, immigration isn’t turning Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Here’s why

Did Labour just abandon its promise for a fairer asylum system?
Alex Firth and Michael Garcia Bochenek

Did Labour just abandon its promise for a fairer asylum system?

The UK’s political map is changing almost overnight. Starmer will have to get tough
John Bird

The UK’s political map is changing almost overnight. Starmer will have to get tough

Working class and young people are ditching Labour. ‘Aping Reform’ won’t bring them back
Politics

Working class and young people are ditching Labour. ‘Aping Reform’ won’t bring them back

In Nigel we trust! How I learned to stop worrying and love Reform UK
Adam Barnett

In Nigel we trust! How I learned to stop worrying and love Reform UK

Keir Starmer is booting migrants out of his vision for workers’ rights
Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol

Keir Starmer is booting migrants out of his vision for workers’ rights

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Legal aid crisis shows how utterly impossible the UK’s asylum system really is: ‘It’s so depressing’
Legal aid crisis

Legal aid crisis shows how utterly impossible the UK’s asylum system really is: ‘It’s so depressing’

Migrant care worker left homeless after being ‘exploited’ UK employer: ‘It’s a national scandal’
Immigration

Migrant care worker left homeless after being ‘exploited’ UK employer: ‘It’s a national scandal’

I was a migrant working in a warehouse. Then I got a role in a film about doing exactly that
Film

I was a migrant working in a warehouse. Then I got a role in a film about doing exactly that

Starmer’s deportation of thousands of migrants isn’t leadership – it’s surrender to hate
Munya Radzi

Starmer’s deportation of thousands of migrants isn’t leadership – it’s surrender to hate