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.

24 June: At the NATO Summit, European allies agree to raise their defence spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035, with Spain criticised by Trump for not complying. (Deutsche Welle, 24 June 2025) 

25 June: The Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion, set up with cross-party support after the summer 2024 ‘riots’, announces the appointment of 19 commissioners. (Press release, Newcastle University, 25 June 2025; BBC News, 25 June 2025)

27 June: In an interview with the Observer, the prime minister says he deeply regrets his  ‘island of strangers’ speech in May to unveil Labour’s immigration policy, stating that he was ignorant, as was his speech writer, of the resonance with the words of Enoch Powell. (Guardian, 27 June 2025)

27 June: Independent (former Reform) MP Rupert Lowe, in reference to Palestine Action, says that ‘if you break into a military base with the intent to cause damage, you should expect to be shot’. (Middle East Eye, 27 June 2025)

27 June: Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips says that she will meet with the Northern Ireland Executive to discuss the Casey review in the context of a 2014 child sexual exploitation scandal that resulted in Operation Owl arrests, which identified the perpetrators of individual grooming as linked to paramilitary groups. (ITV, 27 June 2025)

28 June: All five Reform MPs back a Conservative amendment to the Victims and Courts Bill requiring quarterly publications of the nationality, method of entry to the UK, visa route and status, asylum status and country of birth of convicted offenders, along with details of their offence type and sentence length. The shadow justice secretary claims that the amendment is needed to end the ‘shameful cover-up of crimes committed by foreign nationals’. (Telegraph, 28 June 2025)

28 June: Around 100,000 people defy Hungary‘s government ban and march in Budapest Pride, making it the largest LGBTQ+ event in the country’s history. Despite threats of fines, surveillance, and legal consequences under a new law targeting LGBTQ+ public gatherings, participants, including dozens of EU officials and MEPs attending in solidarity, fill the streets in protest against far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán’s crackdown. (NPR, 28 June 2025)

30 June: As the home secretary lays a statutory instrument before parliament to ban Palestine Action (grouped in a single motion with two neo-Nazi groups) under the Terrorism Act 2000, PA is granted an urgent hearing at the high court to suspend the order’s operation. (Guardian, 1 July 2025)

1 July: As a report from Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation condemns the offshore processing of asylum claims in Albania as potentially unconstitutional and in violation of fundamental rights protected by EU and international law, the European affairs minister says that the government will press ahead and the Forza Italia Senate leader says that the court has been ‘taken over by far-left activists’. (Euractiv, 1 July 2025)

2 July: Reform UK hires ex-Tory MP Anne Marie Morris, who was twice suspended by the Conservatives, once for using the N-word, to head its social care policy. (Guardian, 2 July 2025)

3 July: The Conservative leader faces criticism after she refuses to sack Susan Hall, the  Conservative London Assembly leader who joined the advisory board of the far-right ‘Restore Britain’ group, which calls for mass deportations of ‘millions’ of people living legally in the UK. (Byline Times, 3 July 2025)

4 July: Home secretary Yvette Cooper says that everyone on a small boat where a child dies should be prosecuted for endangering life when the Border Security Bill becomes law. (Independent, 4 July 2025)

4 July: Colin Crawford, Ulster Unionist Stormont assembly member for North Antrim, quits following a dispute over the wording of a party press release which condemned the riots in Ballymena. (BBC News, 4 July 2025)

4 July:  A leaked internal European parliament audit accuses the far-right Identity and Democracy group of misusing millions in EU funds, including fictitious service contracts and funnelling public funds towards personal or ideological allies. (Deutsche Welle, 4 July 2025)

7 July: Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban describes the Budapest Pride march of 28 June, banned by his government but declared an official municipal event by the Budapest mayor, as ‘repulsive and shameful’ and accuses the EU of orchestrating it, as Budapest police say they will not prosecute anyone who attended. (Deutsche Welle, 8 July 2025)

Anti-fascism and the far Right

24 June: A German court overturns the government’s ban on the far Right-linked magazine Compact, ruling that while its content is anti-constitutional, it does not pose a threat to the state. The far Right AfD party hails the decision, calling it a blow to efforts to silence critics, while editor Jürgen Elsässer celebrates the ruling and suggests it weakens any case for banning the AfD. (Guardian, 24 June 2025)

25 June: Dutch police arrest a known white supremacist Landgraaf for allegedly planning to detonate explosives. The man was previously convicted for projecting neo-Nazi slogans and racist messages on the Erasmus Bridge during a national New Year’s Eve broadcast, as well as on city halls in Alkmaar and Eindhoven. He was also convicted of a racially motivated assault in 2021. (NL Times, 25 June 2025) 

25 June: German police carry out a nationwide sweep targeting online hate, searching over 65 locations and questioning dozens linked to more than 140 criminal cases. Authorities report that nearly two-thirds of the investigated content comes from far-right extremist circles. (Shafaq, 25 June 2025)

29 June: Following the Casey review and backed by Tommy Robinson, Football Lads Against Grooming Gangs mobilise in Whitehall against ‘grooming  gangs, knife crime and sexualisation of children’. Stand Up to Racism organises a counter-protest, warning against the exploitation of CSE cases to promote division. (Morning Star, 27 June 2025)

29 June: According to 5 Pillars, the construction site of the South Lake Mega mosque in Cumbria has been subjected to a relentless far-right campaign, with video footage showing demonstrators waving Britain First and Crusader Flags and ranting against ‘illegals who will use the mosque to carry out rape and murder’. (X, 5 Pillars, 29 June 2025)

Lake District Mosque Target of Far-right Harassment

UPDATE: The site of a new mosque being built near England’s Lake District is facing a campaign of hate and misinformation from far-right agitators.

Footage shows small groups of Islamophobes waving Britain First and Crusader… pic.twitter.com/o0xSsMcDlp

— 5Pillars (@5Pillarsuk) June 29, 2025

2 July: In the Netherlands, a 38-year-old man is arrested for threatening singer Douwe Bob, who recently left the country for his family’s safety. The man is said to lead the far-right Amsterdam Defence Force, an anti-establishment group known for extremist slogans, pro-Zwarte Piet views, and support for Israeli bombings in Gaza. (NL Times, 2 July 2025)

3 July: Romanian far-right figurehead Călin Georgescu is charged with promoting fascism and publicly praising WWII-era war criminal Ion Antonescu. Once a fringe pro-Russian figure, Georgescu rose to prominence in 2024 before the constitutional court annulled his election win following concerns of foreign intervention. (TVP World, 3 July 2025)

4 July: Germany’s populist party Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance signals openness to talks with the far-right AfD, breaking with mainstream parties that refuse cooperation. Wagenknecht calls the party’s exclusion ‘undemocratic’ and warns it risks pushing voters further toward the far Right. (Euractiv, 4 July 2025)

7 July: Polish anti-fascist groups warn that ‘citizen patrols’ aligned with the far-right Ruch Obrony Granic (Border Defence Movement) are forming at the German-Polish border. Claiming to defend Poland and Europe from civilisational collapse, the attire and slogans of the patrols mirror Trump’s MAGA and draw public praise from right-wing elements in the government. (European Correspondent, 7 July 2025)

9 July: As part of loyalist commemorations of the Battle of the Boyne, an effigy of a migrant vessel and about a dozen life-size mannequins with lifejackets, is placed atop a tower of pallets to be burned in the County Tyrone village of Moygashel, with placards beneath the boat stating ‘Stop the boats’ and ‘Veterans Before Refugees’. (Guardian, 9 July 2025)

 Anti-terrorism and national security

27 June: Four people are arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences after two aircraft are damaged at RAF Brize Norton in an action linked to Palestine Action. (Guardian, 27 June 2025)

2 July: Despite the opinion of lawyers and several UN special rapporteurs, MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000, as well as two neo-Nazi groups, Maniacs Murder Cult (MMC) and the Russia Imperial Movement (RIM). (Guardian, 2 July 2025)

2 July: In the first case linked to the Incel movement, French anti-terror police arrest and charge with terror-related offences an 18-year-old teenager armed with knives near a high school in the southeastern city of Saint-Etienne. (Guardian, 2 July 2025)

Policing| Prisons|Criminal Justice System

24 June: After a Birmingham coroner instructs a jury that they must not record any part of the events that preceded the death of Muhammad Qasim, who crashed his car into a tree in Birmingham in October 2023, as amounting to a police pursuit, the inquest returns a narrative verdict. (BBC, 24  June 2025)

27 June: Following gross misconduct hearings, two Met police officers are fired over the strip search of Child Q at a secondary school in Hackney and a third receives a final warning. The disciplinary panel did not find that Child Q’s race or age were factors in the way she was treated. (Bhatt Murphy, press release, 27 June 2025)

29 June: After a member of Bob Vylan leads chants of ‘death, death to the IDF’ while performing at Glastonbury Festival, the police tweet that they are examining video footage to assess whether any offences have been committed to justify a criminal investigation. (RTE, 29 June 2025)

30 June: A new Statewatch report, prepared with partners in Belgium, France, Germany and Spain, shows how digital predictive and profiling systems reinforce and amplify racism and criminalisation throughout the criminal justice system. (Statewatch, 30 June 2025)

30 June: An inquest opens into the death of Kaine Fletcher, a 26-year-old mixed-race man who died in hospital after being restrained by multiple Nottinghamshire police officers during a mental health crisis in July 2022. (Nottingham Post, 30 June 2025, INQUEST, 30 June 2025)

2 July: A 26-year-old Surrey man is sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court to 15 months for posting on X ‘Burn any hotels with those scruffy bastards in it’ during the far-right riots in August 2024. (Oxford Mail, 2 July 2025)

3 July: Police in London are accused of misusing the law to curb protest after research by Greenpeace UK flags a tenfold rise in conspiracy to cause a public nuisance law arrests, with fewer than 3 percent of those placed in pretrial custody since 2019 eventually prosecuted. (Guardian, 3 July 2025)

3 July: Greater Manchester Police say they are investigating over 1,000 ‘grooming gang’ suspects in non-recent child sexual exploitation cases, having set up a dedicated CSE team in 2021. (Guardian, 3 July 2025)

4 July: The seven-year sentence for a teenage boy convicted of killing 80-year-old Bhim Kohli, who was filmed being attacked and racially abused while walking his dog, is referred to the Court of Appeal as ‘unduly lenient’. (Guardian, 4 July 2025)

4 July: Both the High Court and the Court of Appeal refuse an emergency injunction to stop the proscription of Palestine Action, which therefore comes into force at midnight. (Guardian, 4 July 2025)

5 July: Met police arrest 29 people, including a retired vicar, an emeritus professor and a number of health professionals, under the Terrorism Act 2000 at a peaceful gathering  organised by Defend Our Juries where Palestine Action and the genocide were referenced on cardboard signs. (Guardian, 5 July 2025)

8 July: Reformers from Appeal and Justice warn that removing the right to jury trial for more offences will disadvantage people of colour and other minorities, as magistrates and judges convict racialised defendants at higher rates than juries. (Guardian, 8 July 2025)

Asylum|Migration|Borders|Citizenship

Asylum and migrant rights

25 June: A report by Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill finds newly introduced offences to be drafted so broadly that they pose a serious risk of criminalising refugees and breaching legal obligations. (EIN, 25 June 2025)

27 June: As changes to Home Office guidance deem regions of Ukraine ‘generally safe’, Ukrainians applying for asylum and the route to settlement are told they do not qualify as refugees as they can relocate to safer areas. (Guardian, 27 June 2025)

27 June: The German Parliament approves the suspension of family reunion for the roughly 350,000 people with ‘subsidiary protection’ visas, most of whom are Syrians who fled the civil war. Visas for family reunion for this group have been limited to 1000 per month since 2018. (Deutsche Welle, 27 June 2025)

30 June: The Home Office refuses to refund the £3,105 immigration health surcharge of 25-year-old Ubah Abdi Mohamed, a Kenyan woman who died before she could use her visa to join her husband, Mohamed Jama, a British citizen living in London. Whilst refunds are provided to those whose applications are refused or withdrawn, there is no repayment policy in the event of a death. (Guardian, 30 June 2025)

30 June: FLEX publishes Blueprint for safer and fairer migration for low-paid work, which shows how vulnerability is constructed by immigration policies and drawing on migrant workers’ experiences to offer alternatives. (Focus on Labour Exploitation, 1 July 2025)

30 June: A cross-party group of 67 MPs call on the government to open a Ukraine-style visa scheme allowing Palestinians in Gaza to join family members in the UK. (MENAFN, 30 June 2025)

1 July: The Afghan resettlement schemes, described as a lifeline by refugee charities, are closed down with no notice. (Independent, 1 July 2025)

1 July: New immigration rules introduced to Parliament raise the salary and qualification requirements for skilled worker visas, introduce more temporary shortage occupation visas with no rights to bring family members, and end the overseas recruitment of care workers. (Standard, 1 July 2025; Gov.uk, 1 July 2025)

3 July: As the Home Office rolls out its eVisa scheme to replace paper with digital proof of rights to stay in Britain, up to 200,000 people settled in the UK for decades are reportedly at risk of being denied work and housing, detained and deported as illegal migrants because they are not enrolled on digital records. (Guardian, 3 July 2025)

 Borders and internal controls

26 June: The German government cuts its budget for sea rescue NGOs in the Mediterranean, to which it previously gave €2 million a year, supporting groups including Sea Eye, SOS Humanity and Sant’Egidio. Sea Eye says it may not be able to continue its work, which EU states should be doing, without the funding. (National, 26 June 2025)

28 June: As the government negotiates a ‘one in, one out’ deal with France, whereby France takes back small boat migrants in exchange for asylum seekers with family ties in the UK, the governments of Italy, Greece, Spain, Malta and Cyprus object to the European Commission about the implications for states of first entry. (Independent, 28 June 2025)

29 June: On Poland’s border with Germany, vigilante ‘citizens’ patrols’, sometimes hundreds strong, form to prevent migrants being returned to Poland by German border guards. They are supported by the far-right Confederation (Konfederacja) and national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS). (Notes from Poland, 29 June 2025)

“Citizen patrols” have gathered in Poland at the border to oppose Germany’s policy of returning migrants who crossed illegally

They have been supported by the Polish right-wing opposition, which accuses the government of failing to prevent migrant returnshttps://t.co/z2E7mLnz4T

— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) June 29, 2025

30 June: The Home-Office sponsored agency licensing security guards follows the Solicitors Regulatory Authority, banks and academic institutions in not accepting eVisas, which are replacing paper residence documents as evidence of ID and the right to work, leaving many with no means of proving their eligibility. (Guardian, 30 June 2025)

1 July: A report by the charity Project Play, which works with children on the move in northern France, reveals that 15 children died in Channel crossings last year, more than in the previous four years combined, and that children they work with are traumatised by police using knives, rubber bullets and tear gas. (Guardian, 1 July 2025)

3 July: Researchers find that the EU-Turkey deal of 2016 did not reduce irregular arrivals but moved migrant journeys to more dangerous routes, increasing deaths in the central Mediterranean. (ANSA, 3 July 2025)

4 July: French border police are reported to have begun slashing small boats in shallow waters to prevent departures, a move welcomed by the prime minister and the home secretary – who says they must do more and intervene in deeper waters – but condemned as illegal by a French charity spokesperson as the law allowing such intervention is not yet in force. (Independent, 4 July 2025)

5 July: The Home Office announces a crackdown on asylum seekers working in breach of the ban on taking employment, after shadow home secretary Chris Philp films food delivery bikes outside asylum hostels and reports of illegal use of the platforms’ log-ins to secure shifts. (Guardian, 5 July 2025)

7 July: It is revealed that for years, the EU border agency Frontex collected personal data on migrants and ‘suspect’ civil society activists to pass on to Europol, including calls to relatives and [false] details of subjects’ sex lives, in the name of ‘combating smugglers’. (Le Monde, 7 July 2025)

7 July: Belgian police begin ‘spot’ migration ID checks on buses and trains inside the country’s borders, removing six undocumented migrants from trains, in a move the interior minister described as ‘political messaging… telling our people that the Belgian state is doing everything to guarantee security and law and order’. (VRT, 7 July 2025)

Deportations

25 June: It is reported that on 9 May, Italy carried out its first deportations from its offshore detention facility in Albania, of five Egyptian men, allegedly without any due process. The operation, costing €114,000, is condemned by activists as unlawful under Italian and EU law. (Forbes, 25 June 2025)

26 June: A report by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons on the deportation of 45 people to India finds a lack of toilet privacy, inadequate menstrual care products for the sole female detainee, a lack of information about where in India deportees would arrive, and one case of a waist restraint belt being imposed for almost seven hours. (EIN, 26 June 2025)

1 July: Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) expresses concern that police powers to give ‘conditional cautions’ for minor offences, extended under the Crime and Policing Bill to people on work and study visas, will be used to deport many who agreed in ignorance of the consequences and without legal advice. (BID, 2 July 2025)

3 July: Austria becomes the first EU state to deport a Syrian, whose refugee status was removed in 2019 after his criminal conviction. Austria’s government suspended all Syrian asylum applications after Assad’s fall in December, halted family reunification and began procedures to revoke the refugee status of around 2,900 refugees from Syria. (Politico, 3 July 2025)

 Human rights and discrimination

26 June: The Council of Europe’s Steering Committee on Human Rights adopts the Amnesty International and Omega Research report on measures against the trade in goods used for the death penalty, torture and other ill-treatment. (CDDH (2025) 04, 26 June 2025)

 Education 

Although we do not cover student protests for Palestine, we do track university administrative measures that deny the right to protest and authorise the use of force, or silence pro-Palestinian voices and display anti-Palestinian bias.

25 June: Oxford University announces plans to diversify admissions at postgraduate level, aiming to ‘increase scholarship support for under-represented groups, provide mentoring and internships for potential masters and DPhil students and trial new selection procedures’. (THE, 25 June 2025)

25 June: Goldsmiths College in London apologises to Jewish students and staff after an independent inquiry finds that since 2018, ‘Jewish students [have been] legitimately feeling significant discomfort on campus’. (Guardian, 25 June 2025)

27 June: An investigation by TES reveals that many international trainee teachers in the UK finds that once study fees, rent and living costs are subtracted from their bursary, their income falls below the poverty line. Changes in graduate visa rules also make it harder for trainee teachers to complete the full two-year induction period. (TES, 27 June)

1 July: A report by the British Council finds that ‘the proportion of pupils studying a modern language GCSE in less affluent English state schools was 38 percent lower than in the most affluent and 12 percent lower than the average’. (Guardian, 1 July 2025)

3 July: The Dutch government U-turns on a proposed ‘foreign language test’ for undergraduate programmes, which sought to restrict teaching in a foreign language in order to reduce international student intake in Dutch universities. (THE, 3 July 2025)

7 July: Results of a survey of 200 school leaders show that, although exclusions and suspensions are at a near all-time high, 81 percent of leaders think that alternative provision to which excluded students are sent does not support pupils’ educational outcomes. Black, Roma and Traveller pupils are disproportionately represented in school exclusions and suspensions. (TES, 7 July 2025)

7 July: Paul Miller launches the Institute for Equity, University Centre in London, despite ‘an environment of significant risk and hostility’. (THE, 7 July 2025)

7 July: The municipality and a school in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek, Belgium, are asked to apologise after it emerges that Emile Max High School excluded two students in headscarves from a ceremony where they should have received their diplomas. (Brussels Times, 7 July 2025)

Housing | Poverty | Welfare

27 June: Brent Council asks residents to leave Lynton Cross, London’s largest authorised caravan site, citing a fire risk assessment that the site poses an ‘intolerable risk’. London Gypsies and Travellers draw attention to the ‘chronic lack’ of Traveller sites in Brent, saying it needs 90 new pitches but has planned for zero. (RTE, 27 June 2025)

Health and social care

24 June: At its annual meeting, the British Medical Association passes three motions in relation to Israel/Palestine, including one stating that medical professionals have a right to advocate for their colleagues in Palestine without threat of punitive action. (BMA, 26 June 2025)

29 June: ‘Medieval’ levels of health inequality cost the NHS £50bn a year in treatment for the effects of poverty and deprivation, with scabies, rickets and scarlet fever rising, and old and young people self-harming to secure a hospital stay, an investigation reveals. (Guardian, 29 June 2025)

Employment|Exploitation|Industrial Action

30 June: Following pressure from ministers, the UK’s three largest food delivery companies – Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat – announce enhanced security checks for riders, increasing facial recognition and fraud detection checks to prevent undocumented migrants working for them. (Guardian, 30 June 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.

26 June: Researchers from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab find that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok struggles to accurately fact-check and verify information about the recent 12-day Israel-Iran conflict, frequently providing inconsistent and incorrect answers, including misidentifying AI-generated videos as real footage. (Euronews, 26 June 2025)

28 June: After the BBC refuses to screen Basement Films’ documentary ‘Gaza Doctors Under Attack’, Channel 4 announces that they will. Mounting criticism accuses the BBC of censorship, inconsistency, and political suppression. (Channel 4, press release, 28 June 2025; Guardian, 29 June 2025) 

28 June: The BBC confirms it will not livestream Kneecap’s Glastonbury set, citing editorial guidelines, following controversy surrounding terrorism charges brought against band member Mo Chara. (Guardian, 28 June 2025)

29 June: As police launch a criminal investigation into Glastonbury performances by Bob Vylan and Kneecap after chants and comments referencing the IDF and UK politicians spark accusations of hate speech and incitement, the US revokes Bob Vylan’s visas and their agency, UTA, drops them. Glastonbury organisers say they are ‘appalled’ by Bob Vylan’s chant of ‘death to the IDF’. (Guardian, 29 June 2025; Guardian, 30 June 2025)

29 June: The Met drops a terror-related charge against Kneecap member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (Mo Chara) over comments made during a 2023 performance, citing expired statutory time limits. The incident involved footage where Ó hAnnaidh appeared to say, ‘Kill your local MP’. (The National, 29 June 2025)

2 July: Manchester’s Radar Festival organisers drop Bob Vylan as headliners following the controversy over the rap duo’s appearance at Glastonbury. (Guardian, 2 July 2025)

2 July: More than 400 media figures, including Miriam Margolyes, Mike Leigh, and 111 anonymous BBC journalists, call for the removal of BBC board member Robbie Gibb over alleged conflicts of interest tied to the corporation’s Gaza coverage. In a public letter, they accuse the BBC of censoring critical reporting on Israel and failing to uphold editorial impartiality, citing Gibb’s past ties to the Jewish Chronicle and his role in dropping the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. (Guardian, 2 July 2025)

6 July: Right-wing Croatian singer Marko Perković, known as Thompson, and hundreds of thousands of fans perform a banned pro-Nazi Ustasha salute at a concert in Zagreb. The salute is linked to Croatia’s WWII fascist regime, which committed atrocities against Serbs, Jews, Roma, and anti-fascist Croats. Perković claims the gesture reflects Croatia’s 1990s war for independence, but critics say it glorifies a regime responsible for mass killings. (NBC News, 6 July 2025)

7 July: Music industry groups including the Featured Artists Coalition and the Musicians’ Union criticise the BBC’s new policy to restrict live broadcasts of ‘high risk’ artists after Bob Vylan’s controversial Glastonbury performance, warning it risks censorship and curtailing artistic freedom. (Guardian, 7 July 2025)

Racial Violence and Harassment

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

30 June: A petrol bomb is thrown at the Masjid Al Aqsa mosque in Blackburn. Police open an investigation into suspected arson and local councillor Saj Ali blames ‘rising Islamophobia’, ‘fuelled by media narratives and politically charged comments’, ‘creating a climate of fear’.  The attack was preceded by hateful comments online. (Lancashire Post, 30 June 2025; Asian Image, 1 July 2025) 

8 July: Following the arrest of a man on 3 July on suspicion of vandalising a Brixton exhibition honouring the Windrush generation, the Met clarify an earlier statement that they did not regard the incident as a hate crime. (Brixton Blog, 8 July 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.