ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 

2 September: Former Conservative home secretary Amber Rudd warns the current home secretary against making the same hasty decisions that led to the Windrush scandal, such as stopping family reunification for refugees and advocating the warehousing of asylum seekers. (Guardian, 2 September 2025)

2 September: In an article in The Times, then home secretary Yvette Cooper promises to ‘clamp down’ on international students claiming asylum at the end of their studies (THE, 2 September 2025)

4 September: Shadow justice minister Robert Jenrick, in a Spectator interview, criticises Reform’s plans on asylum as too weak, saying asylum seekers should be detained in ‘camps’ resembling ‘rudimentary prisons’ and that deportations should include women and children. (Guardian, 4 September 2025)

4 September: Scotland’s nationalist first minister John Swinney, speaking out against the appropriation of the Scottish national flag by the far Right, says that ‘Our saltire is a flag of welcome, and refugees are welcome here’. (Guardian, 6 September 2025)

4 September: Coventry City Council announces a review of its £500,000 annual contract with controversial US data firm Palantir, which uses AI for case notes in children’s services, following a trade union campaign over the company’s reported links with the Israeli Defence Force. (Local Government, 4 September 2025)

5 September: In his Reform UK conference speech, Nigel Farage announces that, if elected, his party will ‘refuse to have our kids’ minds poisoned in schools and universities with a twisted interpretation of the history of these amazing islands. We will not stand for it.’ (THE, 5 September 2025)

6 September: Following Farage’s claim in late August that increased sexual assaults in Glasgow are linked to the fact that Glasgow is the ‘asylum capital of the UK’, Rape Crisis Scotland says there is ‘absolutely no evidence’ to substantiate the correlation. (Guardian, 6 September 2025)

7 September: In a Sky News interview, defence secretary John Healey says the new home secretary will be ‘just as tough’ on Palestine Action as her predecessor, adding that ‘if we want to avoid a two-tier policing and justice system in this country, when people break the law, there have to be consequences’. (Guardian, 9 September 2025)

8 September: In the general election in Norway, which returns a Labour-led government, the anti-immigration Progress Party secures its best vote ever, doubling its share of the vote from the previous election in 2021 and coming in second place. (Deutsche Welle, 9 September 2025; Al Jazeera, 8 September 2025)

9 September: The Good Law Project finds that flawed statistics used by Reform UK to stoke fears about migrants and women’s safety are provided by the Women’s Safety Initiative led by Farage supporter Jess Gill, whose founders have associated with or shown support for figures on the extreme fringes of UK politics as well as eugenicist researchers. (Good Law Project, 9 September 2025)

14 September: Following Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom protest, the prime minister says that Britain will ‘never surrender’ to far-right protesters who use the English flag to instil fear, condemning attacks against police officers, adding that he would not tolerate people being ‘intimidated… because of their background or the colour of their skin’. (Guardian, 14 September 2025)

15 September: In a regional election in North Rhine-Westphalia, Alternative for Germany wins 14.5% of the vote (up from 9.4%). In the industrial Ruhr region, AfD mayoral candidates gain enough votes to proceed to the second round. (Yahoo, 15 September 2025)

15 September: Paul Ovenden, the prime minister’s director of political strategy, resigns after the publication of old messages in which he relayed lewd jokes made at a party about Diane Abbott. (Guardian, 15 September 2025)

ANTI-FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT

With anti-migrant, anti-Muslim, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI activities increasingly interlinking, we now incorporate information on the Christian Right as well as the religious Right generally.

See also policing and criminal justice section for the policing of the Unite the Kingdom demonstration. Also racial harassment section for more incidents of racism related to far-right protests.

3 September: A neo-Nazi music festival in Great Yarmouth is cancelled after a campaign by Hope Not Hate, which saw over 34,000 people urge the Home Office to block overseas bands. The event, set to draw more than 500 far-right supporters, would have been the UK’s largest nazi music gathering in a decade. (Morning Star, 3 September 2025)

4 September: Save our Future and Our Kids Future express anger as councils in Scotland attempt to remove hazardous saltire flags from lampposts. Threats and intimidation of council workers in Aberdeenshire and Falkirk are reported to Police Scotland. Knowsley Council in Merseyside also report threats to staff. (BBC News, 4 September 2025; Liverpool World, 3 September 2025) 

6 September: Thousands attend the annual anti-abortion event culminating in the March for Life, with eight of the 13 panel speakers from the far-right US Alliance Defending Freedom. (The Canary, 7 September 2025)

8 out of 13 speakers at London anti-abortion march were from notorious US hate group

March for Life speakers have direct links to Alliance Defending Freedom – a Christian legal organisation that’s an “anti-LBGTQ+ hate group”https://t.co/w5Jx3lNdQS

— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) September 7, 2025

10 September: Prosecutors charge eight members of the ‘Saxony Separatists’ with planning a violent takeover in eastern Germany to create a neo-Nazi state. The group trained with weapons and paramilitary drills while preparing for ‘Day X,’ when they expected the German state to collapse. Authorities say the extremists planned ethnic cleansing and the removal of minorities before police broke them up in a 2024 raid. (DW, 10 September 2025)

12 September: Three members of an Essex family are jailed for over seven years after being found guilty of creating and distributing neo-Nazi music that spread racial hatred and terrorism. Robert Talland, a leader of the far-right Blood & Honour movement, is sentenced to four years, while his children Stephen and Rosie receive shorter terms. Police say the family promoted violent white power music across Europe and encouraged extremist terrorism. (Counter Terrorism Policing, 12 September 2025)

13 September: In the largest far-right protest in British history, around 110,000 people attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom march in Whitehall. Speakers include Elon Musk (via video link), Advance UK leader Ben Habib, and French, Danish and Polish parliamentarians who, amongst other things, call for the banning of all public expression of non-Christian religions and the ‘remigration’ of legal migrants. (X, 13 September 2025, Guardian, 14 September 2025)

14 September: An anti-asylum protest takes place at the Brook Hotel, Bowthorpe, Norwich, with demonstrators chanting Charlie Kirk’s name. In response to a counter-protest, they also chant ‘can you hear the lefties sing’ and ‘Stop the Boats’. (Norwich Evening News, 14 September 2025)

15 September: No 10 condemns Elon Musk’s remarks at the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally in London as ‘dangerous and inflammatory’ after he told protesters ‘violence is coming’ and that ‘you either fight back or you die’. (Guardian, 15 September 2025)

16 September: German police raid more than a dozen properties across three states targeting a suspected far-right armed group accused of stockpiling military-grade weapons. Eight suspects aged 32 to 57 are under investigation after earlier seizures of a pistol and ammunition. Authorities say the operation reflects growing concern as far-right extremists committed over 42,000 crimes in Germany last year, including nearly 1,500 violent attacks. (TRT World, 16 September 2025)

ANTI-TERRORISM AND NATIONAL SECURITY

4 September: The court of appeal rules that the home secretary can challenge the decision to grant a judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action. (Guardian, 4 September 2025)

4 September: Nizar Trabelsi, extradited to the US on terrorism charges in 2013 and sent back to Belgium in August after being acquitted by a federal jury in July 2023, launches a legal challenge against his planned deportation to Tunisa, where he says he will tortured or murdered. He is currently residing in a centre for ‘illegal migrants’. (Times, 4 September 2025)

POLICING| PRISONS| CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

2 September: Counter-terrorism police arrest key members of Defend Our Juries under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 ahead of a press conference calling for a mass protest against the proscription of Palestine Action. (Morning Star, 2 September 2025)

2 September: A Big Brother Watch analysis finds that the Met has disproportionately targeted pro-Palestine protesters using controversial stop and search powers under the Public Order Act 2023, leading to 47 searches, primarily during a peaceful Gaza Youth Demand protest in July 2024, resulting in no arrests. (Guardian, 2 September 2025)

🚔Met Police used new DRACONIAN stop & search powers against 47 protestors – 40 of whom were demonstrating against the war in Gaza, our research reveals.

“This data gives an alarming impression of police selectively targeting protesters” – @JHurfurt ⤵️https://t.co/k00YvUeCmt

— Big Brother Watch (@BigBrotherWatch) September 2, 2025

3 September: The chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council calls on politicians to ‘reduce and defuse tensions and not sow division’ in light of demonstrations against asylum seekers housed in hotels. (Guardian, 3 September 2025)

6 September: In London’s Parliament Square, police arrest 857 people protesting the proscription of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act. Defend our Juries refute police claims of ‘intolerable abuse’ and coordinated violence. (Guardian, 7 September 2025)

7 September: Police claims that the anti-proscription protest in Parliament Square turned violent are a misrepresentation, says Amnesty International, whose legal observers saw a few protesters insulting police and attempting to prevent arrests, but no ‘coordinated effort’. Some police officers were aggressive and pulled out batons, AI adds. (X, [AI], 7 September 2025)

7 September: Following a number of high-profile cases, the charity Inside Justice says the Criminal Cases Review Commission is failing prisoners appealing wrongful convictions, as it does not have forensic expertise and will not engage with third parties who do. (Guardian, 7 September 2025)

11 September: An analysis of Home Office statistics shows that more people have been charged since Palestine Action was proscribed than during the entire ‘war on terror’, with four times as many people charged under Section 13 terror powers since July than between 2001 and June 2025. (Middle East Eye, September 2025)

12 September: Nine Scotland Yard officers are suspended following an investigation, centring on Charing Cross police station, into claims of excessive use of force and discriminatory and misogynistic comments. A new investigation into 11 current or former Met officers and one staff member is launched, covering ‘criminality and misconduct’. (Guardian, 12 September 2025)

13 September: After far-right protesters at the Unite the Kingdom protest in Whitehall attempt to breach barriers and attack counter-protesters, mounted police and riot police wielding batons are deployed. 24 arrests are made, including for common assault and violent disorder. Police, who initiate a ‘post-event operation’ in order to make arrests, announce they are seeking a man caught on camera saying ,‘Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated’. (BBC, 13 September 2025; Guardian, 14 September 2025; Guardian, 14 September 2025)

17 September: In a joint statement, the Monitoring Group and Southall Black Sisters criticise the lack of robust police protection for counter protestors and the public at the far-right Unite the Kingdom rally, also warning that communities are afraid and isolated in the face of spiralling racist violence. (The Monitoring Group, 17 September 2025)

ASYLUM | MIGRATION| BORDERS| CITIZENSHIP

Asylum and migrant rights

2 September: At a ministerial meeting, the prime minister discusses the introduction of digital ID cards to track people once they enter the UK, as he mounts an aggressive social media campaign with of images of young Black men being detained, captioned: ‘If you come to this country illegally, you will face detention and return.’ (Guardian, 2 September 2025)

2 September: The home secretary agrees, following a campaign, to expedite the visas of students from Gaza with scholarships in UK universities. (Garden Court chambers, 4 September 2025)

2 September: A secret scheme to resettle Afghan victims of the huge data breach is revealed. (Al Monitor, 2 September 2025)

4 September: New rules suspend refugee family reunion with immediate effect, requiring refugees to wait two years and to meet income and language thresholds for family reunion, which rights groups say will lead to more attempts to come in small boats and more deaths. (EIN, 4 September 2025)

4 September: The government scraps the public relations campaign, ‘Britain is bad’, featuring Albanian migrants revealing the difficulties they faced in Britain, amid concerns about the cost and ineffectiveness of the scheme, launched by the Conservative government in 2023. (The i paper, 4 September 2025)

10 September: Praxis launches its ‘Scrap the Barriers’ campaign calling for a five-year maximum for routes to settlement for migrants. (Praxis, 10 September 2025) 

By making people wait ten years to get settlement, this Government is holding people back and holding our communities down.

That’s why we’re fighting to Scrap the Barriers.
Now’s the time to speak up. Now’s the time to push back.

📋 Sign the petition now.
act.praxis.org.uk/scrap-the-ba…

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— Praxis, for migrants and refugees (@praxisprojects.bsky.social) 28 July 2025 at 11:04

Borders and internal controls 

9 September: A woman dies attempting to cross the Channel, in unknown circumstances. (Sky News, 9 September 2025)

10 September: Three people, including two children, die in hospital following an incident on a small boat off the French coast near Sangatte, in which it is believed they were crushed. (BBC News, 10 September 2025)

Reception and detention 

2 September: The home secretary says that the Home Office is considering industrial and military sites to accommodate asylum seekers, as she talks with councils to identify disused buildings such as warehouses, former student accommodation and government-owned properties, to try to end reliance on hotels. (Telegraph, 2 September 2025)

2 September: The Home Office halves to 28 days the notice period for newly recognised refugees to find their own accommodation and leave asylum accommodation. (The I paper,  2 September 2025)

3 September: An HMI Prisons report on progress at the Brook House immigration removal centre following the 2024 inspection finds that the centre still feels and looks like a prison and that detainees remain frustrated by the inadequate cell ventilation. It also notes limited progress in support for vulnerable detainees, that many detainees held for excessive periods, and that many are released without accommodation. (EIN, 3 September 2025)

4 September: West Northamptonshire Council issues planning contravention orders against three hotels to stop the accommodation of asylum seekers. (BBC, 4 September 2025)

Deportations

 8 September: New home secretary Shabana Mahmood says she will stop issuing visas to nationals of countries that will not take back their citizens, in discussions with the UK’s Five Eyes allies, an intelligence sharing partnership with the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. (Independent, 8 September 2025)

Crimes of solidarity

9 September: Italian authorities detain the search and rescue vessel Aurora, belonging to German NGO Seawatch, in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo after it disembarks 75 rescued people, alleging disobedience to port orders. The detention is the second in a fortnight; the Mediterranea was detained on 25 August on similar grounds, fined €10,000 and issued with a 60-day detention order on 2 September. (SeaWatch, 9 September 2025; ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 11 September 2025)

EDUCATION

11 September: Figures released by the Department for Education (DfE) show that the attainment gap between disadvantaged and all other pupils taking their Sats at Key Stage 2 rose from 3.13 in 2024 to 3.14 in 2025. Scores for pupils of Caribbean, mixed White and Black Caribbean, Gypsy and Irish traveller heritage remain significantly below the national average. (TES, 11 September 2025)

12 September: The government’s decision to pause and review the Research Excellence Framework (REF) ‘could signal the start of more fundamental shift away from an institutional focus on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives’. (THE, 12 September 2025)

HOUSING| POVERTY |WELFARE

4 September: A report on life for families with no recourse to public funds describes destitution in squalid living conditions, fears of starvation and racism among the two million migrants unable to access welfare benefits in the UK. (The Conversation, 4 September 2025)

EMPLOYMENT| EXPLOITATION| INDUSTRIAL ACTION

12 September: The national chair of the Prison Officers Association says that changes in eligibility for skilled work visas, which threaten the jobs of more than 1,000 prison officers from overseas, mainly from African countries, are ‘scandalous’ and ‘pandering to Reform’. (Guardian, 12 September 2025)

17 September: Trades Unionists including from the RMT and the  Transport Salaries Staffs Association  demonstrate outside the Home Office against the government’s visa rule changes for migrant workers and plans to deport London Underground workers. (X, [TSAA Union, 17 September 2025)

TSSA joined the protest outside the Home Office today, against the government’s visa rule changes for migrant transport workers.

TSSA General Secretary @MEslamdoust said:

“Migrant workers in care, transport & prisons keep this country standing. I’m proud to stand with them.” pic.twitter.com/NNrQumowjC

— TSSA (@TSSAunion) September 17, 2025

CULTURE| MEDIA| SPORT

While we cannot cover all incidents of racist abuse on sportspersons or their responses, we provide a summary of the most important incidents. For more information follow Kick it Out.

3 September: A Spanish court sentences a man to one year in prison for racially abusing Athletic Bilbao’s Iñaki Williams during a 2020 match at Espanyol, the first case of its type in Spain. The defendant is given fines, a stadium ban, and a ban from working in education or sports. (Reuters, 3 September 2025)

3 September: Dutch police visit a Nijmegen man after Eindhoven and Delft Universities of Technology file a complaint over his LinkedIn post linking their AI work to Israeli military use in Gaza. The universities call the post libellous, saying it wrongly names staff and compares them to Nazi criminals. Prosecutors drop the case but order police to deliver a warning. (ED, 3 September 2025)

3 September: British cyclist Tom Pidcock states ‘putting us in danger isn’t going to help your cause’ after pro-Palestine protests disrupt the Vuelta a España in Bilbao. Riders were diverted 3km from the finish and organisers declared no stage winner for safety reasons. (Cycling News, 3 September 2025)

4 September: Police arrest a 30-year-old man in connection with racist abuse directed at England defender Jess Carter during Euro 2025, making it the second arrest in the case. (Reuters, 4 September 2025) 

9 September: The Irish Football Association says it will work with supporters’ clubs and police after Northern Ireland fans were filmed chanting abuse at a pro-Palestine march ahead of a fixture in Cologne. (Belfast Media, 9 September 2025)

11 September: Belfast restaurant owner Michael Deane apologies after posting on social media about ‘undocumented’ delivery drivers working for food delivery apps, with the Facebook post described by MLA Gerry Carroll as ‘punching down on migrant workers and repeating racist lies in the context of far-right vigilantes assaulting delivery workers’. (BBC News, 11 September 2025)

12 September: The BBC is criticised for its failure to scrutinise Reform UK policies and its disproportionate coverage of the party, as a study by Cardiff University finds that despite having just four MPs, the party featured in a quarter of all BBC News At Ten bulletins between January and July 2025, and was referenced in just under a fifth of ITV News At Ten bulletins. (Guardian, 12 September 2025)

13 September: Belgium’s prime minister Bart De Wever attends a concert in Essen to support Israeli conductor Lahav Shani after the Ghent festival cancels a performance by the Munich Philharmonic over future chief conductor Shani’s failure to distance himself from the Israeli government. (Guardian, 13 September 2025)

14 September: The final stage of the Vuelta a España in Madrid, Spain is abandoned after pro-Palestine protesters knock down barriers and occupy parts of the course. Organisers condemn the disruption as unsafe and damaging to the race. Police clash with an estimated 100,000 demonstrators as Spain’s prime minister praises the protests. (BBC Sport, 14 September 2025)

15 September: A Dutch court rules that rap duo Bob Vylan can perform in Nijmegen after the Central Jewish Council loses its bid to block the show. The CJO argued the group’s chants at a previous concert put the Jewish community ‘in danger’, while organisers called the case an attempt at censorship. (De Telegraaf, 15 September 2025)

16 September: Spain becomes the first of Eurovision’s ‘big five’ to say it will boycott next year’s contest in Vienna if Israel participates. State broadcaster RTVE voted 10–4 in favour of withdrawal, citing Israel’s war in Gaza, after Slovenia, Ireland and the Netherlands already announced similar decisions. (Guardian, 16 September 2025)

RACIAL VIOLENCE AND HARASSMENT

For details of court judgements on racially motivated and other hate crimes, see also POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. 

1 September: Recent racist attacks in Northern Ireland include the smashing of windows at the home of a Black family in East Belfast, with graffiti sprayed on the walls saying ‘locals only’, and an attack on a home in Donaghadee, with the words ‘locals only’ also daubed on the side of the house. (BBC News, 1 September 2025)

2 September: A man facing charges of racially aggravated assault by beating, racial harassment and making threats with a blade pleads guilty to assaulting a member of a group of worshippers outside the Portsmouth Jami Mosque on 31 August. (BBC News, 2 September 2025; Novara Media, 1 September 2025)

2 September: Police investigate as hate-related criminal damage the spraying of St George’s Crosses on a clothing and shoe bank outside a mosque and Islamic centre in Reading. (BBC News, 2 September 2025)

4 September: Former Tribune editor Taj Ali launches RADAR, an independent anti-racist reporting and monitoring organisation to document racist attacks, support victims, pressure authorities to act, and amplify the voices of smaller, more isolated Black and Asian communities across Britain. (Labour Hub, 4 September 2025)

NEWS: I’ve set up an independent anti-racist reporting and monitoring organisation. We’ll document racist attacks, support victims, pressure authorities to act, and amplify the voices of smaller, more isolated Black and Asian communities across Britain.🧵 pic.twitter.com/4hLDKZ8YZG

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) September 2, 2025

 4 September: An East Belfast cake sale to raise money for Palestine is cancelled after the organise receive threats and can no longer guarantee the venue as a safe space for the fundraiser. (Belfast Media, 4 September 2025)

4 September: It emerges that last week, the family of the deputy leader of the Green Party, Leeds councillor Mothin Ali, were attacked with bottles and had racist abuse hurled at them during a holiday at the seaside in Cromer, Norfolk. (Guardian, 4 September 2025)

4 September: Two masked people are captured on CCTV throwing large chunks of paving slabs through the windows of the Elaf Mosque in Stockport, Greater Manchester. (BBC News, 5 September 2025)

6 September: A man is arrested after several flares are thrown at the Bell Hotel in Epping during an anti-asylum protest. The total number of arrests near the hotel rises to 30 people, with 21 charged with offences including assaulting a police officer and violent disorder. (Sky News, 6 September 2025)

8 September: After a crowd gathers at Connswater Retail Park, Belfast, to protest the recent prosecution of a man for inciting hate, around a dozen men, some masked, target motorists and surround two cars, forcing drivers to flee. The Belfast Nightwatch First Division, members of which have criminal convictions, are also reported to be challenging dark-skinned men to produce identity documents. (Guardian, 10 September 2025)

8 September: North Belfast MP Jim Finucane vows to raise the rise in sectarian and racist attacks in North Belfast in the Assembly after hosting a meeting at the Girdwood Community Hub in response to a number of incidents in which homes in Manor Street in the lower Oldpark were targeted with racist graffiti and criminal damage. (Belfast Media, 8 September 2025)

8 September: In Scotland, a refugee support organisation criticises police for failing to respond to phone calls after masked men attempted to break into Home Office accommodation in Renfrewshire, terrifying a Tamil refugee family from Diego Garcia. (Instagram [Blue Magpie Foundation], 8 September 2025)

9 September: A Kent resident describes the racial intimidation that followed a far-right anti asylum protest in Faversham. Residents objecting to flag displays are abused and threatened and filmed for social media channels. British Nationalist Socialist stickers appear on post boxes and street furniture. (Guardian, 9 September 2025)

10 September: Muslim organisations issue a joint statement highlighting an alleged assault on a young Muslim schoolgirl by a male who made threatening comments about Muslims, as she was walking home from school in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, Scotland. (X, [Taj Ali], September 2025; BBC News, 11 September 2025) 

Muslim girl racially abused and assaulted on her way back from school in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, Scotland.

The incident occured on Monday around 4PM on Harvie Avenue.

Local mosques have released a joint statement. pic.twitter.com/wZl9guh3wd

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) September 10, 2025

10 September: During a protest outside the Cladhan Hotel, which accommodates asylum seekers in Falkirk, Scotland, a brick is thrown through the window. Falkirk for All describes this as ‘an act of intimidation’. (BBC News, 10 September 2025) 

11 September: The North Central Mosque in Norwich mobilise as ‘flaggers’ put up new flags on lampposts, after locals, who report threatening and aggressive behaviour, had removed them. Police officers escort the group putting up the flags away, but the crowd returns, and shout at people gathered outside the mosque. (Norwich Evening News, 11 September 2025)

11 September: A man is arrested for a racially aggravated offence after swastikas are painted on a bus shelter and other public spaces in Maesteg, Bridgend, Wales. (BBC News, 11 September 2025)

12 September: The Rector of St Luke’s Church in Winton, Bournemouth, links the spraying of the St George’s Cross on the doors of the church to the fact that an anti-racist meeting had taken place in the church hall. The incident ‘makes us more resolute to ensure that we are fighting for those who are on the margins and those who are truly in need’, he says. (BBC News, 12 September 2025)

12 September: A 22-year-old woman admits affray but pleads not guilty to threatening someone with a blade and assaulting an emergency worker after allegedly forcing her way, with 20 others, into the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, which houses asylum seekers, carrying a meat cleaver, on 13 August. She will be tried in June 2026 at Snaresbrook Crown Court. (BBC News, 12 September 2025)

12 September: Police launch a hunt for two white men who allegedly attacked and raped a Sikh woman in Oldbury, Birmingham, on 9 September, with reports that she was racially abused and told ‘you don’t belong in this country, get out’. Police are treating the case as a racially aggravated attack. (Guardian, 12 September 2025)

13 September: Residents in the Welsh village of Henllys, Cwmbran, Torfaen describe themselves as ‘empowered’ after removing St George’s crosses put up in the village, as well as swastikas and the text ‘stop the boats’. (BBC News, 13 September 2025)

13 September: A man is charged with six counts of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage as well as one count of harassment without violence following a series of attacks on synagogues in north-west London, with one incident involving liquid containing bodily fluid being thrown towards a school and over a car. (BBC News, 13 September 2025)

14 September: As the Sikh community march from Smethwick to Oldbury, Birmingham to demand justice for the woman who was raped in a racially aggravated attack, the assault victim issues a public statement thanking the community for its ‘love and support’. (BBC News, 15 September 2025)

Today we marched with the Sikh community ❤️ pic.twitter.com/V3Wb3WnRTQ

— Scarcity News (@ScarcityStudios) September 14, 2025

15 September: After a community initiative to spread hope through chalking messages of welcome supporting diversity in Norwich, many messages such as ‘city of refuge’ and ‘kindness is our strength’ are defaced. The residents vow to continue their work. (BBC News, 15 September 2025)

17 September: Avon and Somerset police are investigating a suspected racially aggravated assault on a 9-year-old girl. It is reported that on   2 September, the child who is now too frightened to leave her home and is being supported by SARI(Stand Against Racism & Inequality), was shot at by a white man with an airgun in iBrentry, Bristol. (BBC News 17 September 2025)

This calendar is researched by IRR staff and compiled by Sophie Chauhan, with the assistance of Graeme Atkinson, Sam Berkson, Margaret McAdam and Louis Ordish. Thanks also to ECRE, the Never Again Association, Research Against Global Authoritarianism and Stopwatch, whose regular updates on asylum, migration, far Right, racial violence, employment and policing issues are an invaluable source of information. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance.