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Six students challenge Home Office visa ban on four countries
Sudanese and Afghan students with offers to study in UK say government’s ‘emergency brake’ is discriminatory

The students – five from Sudan and one from Afghanistan – have undergraduate degrees in medicine and science-based subjects and received offers from universities including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London.

However, this month the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, announced a ban on student visas for people from Sudan, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Cameroon, which will come into force on 26 March.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/23/six-students-challenge-home-office-visa-ban-sudan-afghanistan

#UKpol #HostileEnvironment #UKRacism

Six students challenge Home Office visa ban on four countries

Sudanese and Afghan students with offers to study in UK say government’s ‘emergency brake’ is discriminatory

The Guardian

Jules she/her 1d ago

‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/24/restaurants-raided-britain-version-ice-immigration

#UKpol #HostileEnvironment #ukRacism #UKXenophobia

‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE

They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are they abusing their powers?

The Guardian

Jules she/her Mar 12

MP warns of rise in extreme views on race and identity

"He warned that there had been a further shift over the past nine months in the Overton window ... in terms of the “extraordinary conversations” being had about identity and race.

“We now find ourselves in a space where, to be honest, I’ve got young children and I can’t confidently say their lives, in terms of living in society on an equal footing, [are] better than what I was growing up. That’s a really sad thing to see,” he said."

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/12/mp-zubir-ahmed-warns-rise-extreme-views-race-identity-islamophobia

#UKpol #UKRacism #UKFarRight #Islamophobia

‘I have never seen anything like it’: MP warns of rise in extreme views on race and identity

Health minister Zubir Ahmed says new definition of anti-Muslim hostility could be a turning point as he tells of Islamophobic abuse

The Guardian

Matt Hodgkinson Jan 18

“Unless society comes to terms with the deeper causes of anti-migrant, Islamophobic and racist violence, we will be caught in a vicious cycle of events that repeatedly reinforce each other, with the prospect of ugly protests and riots forming an infinite loop.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/18/response-2024-riots-failed-address-root-causes-racism-southport
#SouthportRiots #RaceRiotsUK #RaceRiots #InstituteOfRaceRelations #UKracism #AntiMigrantViolence #RacistViolence

Response to 2024 summer riots failed to address root causes and links to racism, report says

Institute of Race Relations says violence in Southport and elsewhere often reduced to ‘mindless’ thuggery

The Guardian

Matt Hodgkinson Nov 26

This story isn't going away.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/25/three-more-ex-pupils-at-school-with-nigel-farage-reject-banter-claims

#NigelFarage #ReformUK #Racism #Antisemitism #UKracism #UKpol #UKpolitics #FarRight #UKfarRight #RightWing #DulwichCollege #UKmp #PoliticiansLying

Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims

Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt

The Guardian

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Captain Jack Sparrow Sep 7, 2025

@christineburns

we have the rightwing tabloids to thank for stirring up racism and bigotry, and helping fascists like farage to gain power.

#UKfascism #UKracism #fascistUK #reform #dailymail #dailyexpress

Godfrey642 Aug 29, 2025

Suddenly hearing all sorts of horrific reports about racism out of control in UK - my original homeland.
Farage is in the MSM every day and his voice of anti immigrant, kick them all out rhetoric is booming loud and clear across airwaves, print and tech.
"Kick them out and housing will be ok; Kick them out and hospitals will be ok; Kick them out and education will be ok; Kick them out and policing will be ok..."
And why is the Starmer govt allowing it?

I fcking hate racism.
And I've got no time for a white supremacist music festival 👇 so why the fck is the Home Office allowing it ?

Please use the link here to send this email to Home Office to get this festival blocked. https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/great-yarmouth-to-host-britains-biggest-white-power-concert-in-years/?fbclid=IwdGRzaAMeZaBjbGNrAx5llWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEe9B77pAdpSVOdTOuTeVTMGMa5q-4LcyaplLBMd5GwgS5f1gxCjztiWBLdQCc_aem_NtqMiUEhvVysme0vkQOblw&sfnsn=scwspwa

#ukpol #ukpolitics #uknews #uknazis #ukracism #farageisafascist #reformuknaziparty #reformukarenazis #ImmigrationUK

Cornelius Flynn Aug 23, 2025

The rising millionaire/state-engineered racism in Britain is getting out of hand.
The MSM and the state-run BBC slant the reportage in favour of minority right wing racists who wave the Union Flag and give nazi salutes.
Did nobody tell them that we fought a war over the difference between those two and the nazis lost?
I think it’s time to put my Black Hat back on and start causing some superhighway trouble.
Hopefully Anonymous will pick up the ball soon.
#racism #ukracism #ReformUK #bbc #msm #FarRight

Jules she/her Jul 21, 2025

If you want a depressing illustration of just how far the Overton window has shifted, a cartoon mocking a Muslim MP's name has been chosen as "cartoon of the week" by one of the UK's most left wing mainstream newspapers.

#UKpol #UKracism #Racism

ETA: I wasn't aware the Observer was no longer part of The Guardian, thanks everyone who pointed that out