"People in Belfast lived through this. Their streets were on fire, their neighbours were in danger, and a presenter broadcasting from Washington told the country it wasn’t really happening" www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Investigation closed into ‘no riot’ comments by GB News presenter after anti-immigrant violence in Belfast

Ofcom ruling Bev Turner was expressing personal opinion criticised. Comments drew close to 450 complaints

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Stop Funding Hate@stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ofcom announced today that a GB News presenter claiming there was "no riot" in Belfast doesn't break its accuracy rules: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j... Support our Crowdfunder to help push for a regulator that will actually do its job: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-...

David Miliband says 75th anniversary of refugee convention should be about defending core principles & fixing what does not work in practice "We’ve seen what works: giving refugees legal certainty, investing early in integration, and sharing responsibility fairly" www.aol.com/articles/dav...

David Miliband’s charity: Don’t give up on refugees to chase votes - AOL

Governments must not weaken their commitments to refugees to chase votes, David Miliband’s charity has said.

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An excellent letter addressing Shabana Mahmood's cruel and unworkable Immigration and Asylum Bill, from the UK's first #WelcomeBorough and the best place to call home - Haringey! haringey.gov.uk/news/cabinet...

'Women who have experienced immigration detention have been telling us for years that detention deepens trauma, damages mental health, and separates them from the people they love' @4refugeewomen.bsky.social @aviddetention.bsky.social @sdvisitors.bsky.social leftfootforward.org/2026/07/immi...

Immigration detention is failing women – and the prison watchdog’s report leaves no room for denial

The HM Chief Inspector of Prisons' latest report confirms what women have been saying for years: immigration detention causes profound harm

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Members of Remigration Now, the pro-ethnic cleansing group run by Steve Laws, are embedded within Restore Britain, the party led by Rupert Lowe MP. This includes figures in positions of local influence. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/07/17/m...

Meet Remigration Now: The pro-ethnic cleansing extremists within Restore Britain – HOPE not hate

Warning: this article includes graphic and offensive language and imagery A HOPE not hate investigation reveals: “I would advise any of you not as damaging...

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Where are we now on earned settlement? - With Starmer resigning and Burnham preparing to take the reins, a change of leadership is a chance to change direction. - 200,000 ppl responded to the public consultation on earned settlement, and 500 travelled to Parliament in March to lobby their MPs.

Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU)@gmiau.bsky.social · 3w ago

The government is under pressure. There’s still time to stop “earned settlement”. Write to your MP today to ask them to speak up for our communities. To find out how to use this digital postcard or write to your MP another way, read our blog: gmiau.org/write-to-you...

"Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has admitted he "got it wrong" when he falsely accused a man on social media of filming children in a Glasgow park". Disgusting, dangerous, racist behaviour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tommy Robinson says he 'got it wrong' over Glasgow man falsely accused of filming children

UK-born Quoroum Beg was actually filming an anti-immigration demonstration which had earlier forced him and his children to leave a Glasgow park.

bbc.co.uk

New analysis from @refugeecouncil.bsky.social shows the huge cost to the taxpayer of poor quality Home Office asylum decisions. We estimate it will cost between £974 million and £1.2 billion supporting people currently in the appeals backlog who will have their initial refusal overturned.

80 backbenchers have signed what was intended to be a private letter to Burnham [which has leaked] about the need for significant changes to the settlement & asylum reforms. There is a fair amount of frontbench sympathy for this inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Shutting people seeking sanctuary in ex-military barracks is dangerous, traumatising and cruel. And every night in barracks costs over FIVE TIMES more than a night in a home in a community. So can anyone explain why the Government wants to open MORE camps?

This headline is misleading. Not in the usual way I cover - but language matters. I suspect this is lazy headline writing, but who knows? The figures will and should shock people! And I will also cover one of the pervasive retorts - "yes, but what about army veterans..." 🧵 1/23

“Sanctuary” is a word that gets used a lot. But this is what it actually looks like. Small actions, taken together, transforming our communities. We exist to make this happen. Wherever you live or work, there are ways to get involved. 1/2

Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group feature in this powerful article that highlights the reality of being moved around by the Home Office, from losing community connections to the anxiety caused by unstable accommodation Behind every move is a person whose life is being disrupted all over again👇

I met the asylum seekers being moved out of Home Office hotels - this is what I learned

Cramped conditions, unhealthy frozen food, and no space for children to play. These properties are not the all-inclusive resorts many think

inews.co.uk

Over 25 young people have been forcibly removed to France as part of the UK's 'one in one out', despite flawed age assessments. Research from @jrsuk.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social show the scheme is putting children at risk. Read today's blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

New: UNHCR warns government that unqualified adjudicators will undermine the new asylum appeals body — by Jasmine Quiller-Doust

UNHCR warns government that unqualified adjudicators will undermine the new asylum appeals body - Free Movement

The government has indicated that it plans to staff the new appeals body with adjudicators who are not required to have legal qualifications. Australia tried

freemovement.org.uk

The long awaited @icibi.bsky.social report on asylum casework has been published. This should form the basis of asylum reform, making sure the system does its most important job correctly - getting decisions right first time www.gov.uk/government/n...

Inspection report published: An inspection of asylum casework (June – December 2025)

The Independent Chief Inspector comments on the asylum casework inspection report following its publication.

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"Refugee charities fear controversial changes, including on forced removals and age checks, are being rushed throughShabana Mahmood’s controversial plans to increase the forced removal of people refused asylum, introduce stringent age checks for people claiming to be children and…" — The Guardian

Shabana Mahmood’s immigration and asylum bill to go before MPs next week

Refugee charities fear controversial changes, including on forced removals and age checks, are being rushed through

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This should be a national scandal & a day of shame for the UK. The government is using AI technology that they know is unreliable & which has “baked-in racial bias”. And why are they so determined to use this AI? To try and deport more asylum seeking children. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Home Office knew AI age checks for migrants were flawed — but rolled it out anyway

Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult

independent.co.uk

Watched this and it was chilling. The policy is bad enough, but watching these xenophobic thugs celebrate it the way they did was objectionable and really demonstrates how far right attitudes have been thoroughly mainstreamed. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Anger at ‘send them back’ chants by rightwing MEPs after EU migration law vote

Other lawmakers respond with ‘shame on you’ in heated confrontation over passing of plan to increase deportations

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The house next door to mine is being turned into asylum housing. My neighbours are up in arms. Here's the story. (It's free to read - but do subscribe for more) open.substack.com/pub/nicolake...

On my street

HMOs, Reform stickers and flag-shaggers

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Home Office knew AI tool used to check asylum-seekers' age was flawed but pressed ahead with it anyway. The tool, which predicts age based on facial features, judges teenagers to be adults in error, according to a leaked report the Home Office tried to withhold. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Home Office knew AI age checks for migrants were flawed — but rolled it out anyway

Exclusive: Government advisors describe the tool as ‘hideously flawed’ amid concern facial age estimation has ‘baked-in racial bias’ — and can wrongly identify a 14-year-old as an adult

independent.co.uk

As we celebrate Refugee Week this week and focus on courage, we wanted to highlight the amazing courage we see each week from the young people we support at our youth hub. They leave behind their homes, their family, their friends and their culture.

Could you help banish isolation & loneliness by befriending a refugee or asylum seeker? Last call for Saturday's training day for new volunteers. Sign up via the link in the bio #RefugeesWelcome @birmctogether.bsky.social @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social @ctbi.bsky.social @bvscbirmingham.bsky.social

Long thread alert 🧵 1. The High Court has ruled that the Home Office acted unlawfully when it removed long-standing asylum accommodation protections for survivors of torture, trafficking and other serious violence.

🚨Yesterday, the Government's consultation on proposed changes to asylum support and family returns closed. Our message is loud and clear: these changes would cause huge harm to everyone, including women and children. We urge the Government to halt these cruel plans immediately. Read more👇 1/🧵

This volunteers' week, we want to celebrate all our fantastic volunteers at BIRCH. We simply could not reach and support so many sanctuary seekers without you. Our team bring compassion, understanding, warmth and connection, at a time when this is so badly needed. Thank you all! #VolunteersWeek

Labour is worsening the already fairly dire issue of unaccompanied asylum seeking children being wrongly classed as adults. The findings from their own consultation into AI for facial recognition revealed that the margin of error alone was too high for this use. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilities

theguardian.com

After a decade of campaigning, the government has finally published data confirming what we warned for years: hundreds of child refugees arriving alone in the UK are wrongly treated as adults, with devastating consequences. 🧵 We speak to @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Migrant children put at ‘significant’ risk after being wrongly treated as adults

Exclusive: Home Office accused of ‘safeguarding failure’ as hundreds of migrant children initially assessed as adults

independent.co.uk

What the Home Office still haven't provided are any numbers to do with how many people might be impacted by the proposed changes, including how many families might have to rely on local authority support because their Home Office support is stopped.