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,
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. 20 August: After Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu claims rising incidents of antisemitism in
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. 8 August: Rupert Lowe, independent MP for Great Yarmouth, donates £1,000 to a
22nd July – 5th August 2025 We tend to think of all the great social movements in history as driven by progressive values – anti-racist and for civil rights, for instance. But what do we do when a vociferous, regressive, racist social movement emerges, one that threatens to destroy every gain that we have fought
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY See also anti-fascism and far Right for anti-asylum protests 23 July: Essex police chief constable Ben Julian-Harrington refutes claims by Nigel Farage that police bussed in left-wing protesters to an anti-asylum protest outside the Bell Hotel, Epping, adding that the force is looking to see whether incitement laws have been broken.
8 – 22nd July 2025 One year after the orchestrated far-right racist riots of summer 2024 that followed the horrific murders of Bebe King (6), Elsie Dot Stancombe (7) and Alice Dasilva Aguiar (9), at a dance class in Southport, the far Right, as we report this week in our regular calendar of racism and resistance,
There has been a concerted attempt by politicians to erase the fact that last Summer’s far-right orchestrated riots were marked by extreme racist violence. But are the courts guilty of similar erasures as they treat those who perpetrated the violence and those who responded as two sides of the same coin? An edited and
ELECTORAL POLITICS| GOVERNMENT POLICY 10 July: A leaked cable suggests that the EU Commission’s coordinator on combating antisemitism opposed sanctions against Israel, claiming that starvation in Gaza and other war crimes were ‘rumours’ and antisemitic’ and that ‘ambient antisemitism’, or ‘creating an atmosphere where Jews feel uncomfortable’, was manifested by EU officials baking cakes to
24 June -9 July 2025 For the IRR team of staff and volunteers who put together our regular Calendar of Racism and Resistance, summer 2025 has proved as harrowing as summer 2024. In June, in orchestrated racist attacks in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the PSNI say a ‘pogrom’ was only narrowly averted. And, in the latest horror story
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
