ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 7 March: As France, the Netherlands and Switzerland cut foreign aid budgets
18 February – 4 March 2025 As Starmer increases spending on defence, asylum seekers have once again emerged as pawns in a spending review that will ultimately pit asylum seekers against the poorest in the Global South. On 25 February, as our calendar of racism and resistance records, the overseas aid budget was slashed by almost half to 0.3
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below. 21 February: France’s National Rally leader Jordan Barella cancels his scheduled speech at the US Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland just hours after Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon gave a
4 – 18 February 2025 It is sadly ironic that, as we record the experiences of Professor Insa Koch and her young children of the hyper-securitisation of a society which she feels indicates a growing fascism in Germany, and as this week’s calendar reveals, the leader of the Tories, at an international hard-right gathering, echoes tropes about ‘some cultures being
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY 4 February: 89 Labour MPs establish a pressure group advising the prime minister to take tougher action on immigration and to increase publicity on deportations and other actions to tackle migration, as concerns over losing votes to Reform deepen. (Guardian, 4 February 2025) 6 February: After conservative attempts to form
Insa Lee Koch, Chair of British Cultures at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland, author of Personalizing the State, and member of the editorial working committee of Race & Class, describes an encounter which makes her fear for Germany’s future. I had just said good bye at Berlin Brandenburg Airport to my German father
21 January – 4 February 2025 There are multiple signs, as documented in our regular calendar of racism and resistance, that a myopic narrative around the far-right-orchestrated racist riots of summer 2024 is in the making – that normalises racism and forecloses on any discussion of the organised violence of the far Right. Channel 4’s quick
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below which also includes information on the influence of the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally. 22 January: The Department for Work and Pensions presents to parliament a new
Research from the IRR on charging and sentencing after the far-right-orchestrated racial violence in England in summer 2024,[i] finds that attacks could be traced back to scare statements about immigration and two-tier policing and that courts failed to acknowledge the full extent of the racism behind the riots. Interim research findings[ii] released today relate
7 – 21 January 2025 Less than six months after the far-right orchestrated racist riots that targeted asylum accommodation and mosques, comes a new bout of dog-whistle Islamophobia, fomented by Elon Musk who reposted forty tweets on the UK’s child sexual exploitation and ‘grooming gangs’ in 24 hours, also calling for the release of jailed far-right activist
