Staff may take industrial action over Priti Patel’s ‘reprehensible’ plan to turn back refugees, says PCS unionBorder Force officials could strike over Priti Patel’s “morally reprehensible” plans to turn back dinghies in the Channel, a union has said.Th…
The night I met Christ at a bus stop in Dalston | Stewart Lee
An awkward encounter led me into a moral maze, with a holy trinity fighting over my Scotch dosh“The poor are always with us. So speaks the man who has not learned to use a whip correctly!” And also thus spake the unsung genius comedian Simon Munnery, i…
After rightwing attacks on rescues, UK lifeboat charity has record fundraising year
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has had ‘significant’ increase in annual donations after it went to the aid of asylum seekersThe Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is on course for the highest annual fundraising total in its near 200-ye…
Tagging UK asylum seekers: another Patel idea destined to fail?
Despite a string of measures intended to cut numbers, more than 27,000 crossed the Channel in small boats this yearThe home secretary, Priti Patel, has repeatedly promised to curb the number of people arriving on UK shores in small boats by making this…
The Guardian view on the police bill: a fight for the right to protest | Editorial
Labour and the Lords must take a stand against the draconian crackdown on demonstrators proposed by ministers An already illiberal police and crime bill threatens to become even more so, if 18 pages of amendments added to it by the government in the Ho…
Priti Patel’s plan to offshore refugees is costly, wrong and doomed to fail | David Davis
The home secretary’s proposal won’t stop asylum seekers trying to reach the UK. Creating safe legal routes is the solutionHow do we put a stop to the Channel crossings? There is no doubt that our relationship with France is pivotal. I’m not naive about…
Home Office borders bill could ‘create a British Guantánamo Bay,’ says Tory MP
Former Brexit secretary David Davis says Priti Patel’s plans could foster a situation similar to notorious US detention campA former Conservative cabinet minister has warned that the Home Office’s controversial borders bill risks creating a “British Gu…
Hostile asylum policies made tragedy inevitable | Letters
After at least 27 people lost their lives in a Channel boat crossing, readers discuss the government’s culpability in closing off safe routes for refugeesBoris Johnson describes himself as appalled at Wednesday’s Channel tragedy (Tragedy at sea claims …
Sarah Everard: former prosecutor to lead inquiry into rape and murder by police officer
Dame Elish Angiolini to examine policing failures that allowed Wayne Couzens to attack 33-year-oldThe Home Office inquiry into the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a police officer will be chaired by Dame Elish Angiolini, formerly Scotland’s top pro…
1,100 migrants cross Channel on small boats to UK in two days
Crossings take place as French minister accuses UK of failing to pay promised £55m to tackle the problemMore than 1,100 people made the perilous journey across the Channel in small boats on Friday and Saturday, as France accused Britain of failing to p…