Clare Dunne
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The Ghost of Racism Past
The Ghost of Racism Present
The Ghost of Racism Yet to Come
The Ghost of Racism Present
The Ghost of Racism Yet to Come
December 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The Ghost of Racism Past
The Ghost of Racism Present
The Ghost of Racism Yet to Come
The Ghost of Racism Present
The Ghost of Racism Yet to Come
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In my 40+ years as a Brit, there is no topic more covered than immigration. Since before I was born, it’s been a national fixation. You cannot move for people yammering on about immigrants. And in the past five years, it’s turned even more racist and cruel. Stop the bullshit indeed
“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.
Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
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Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”
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UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat
In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In my 40+ years as a Brit, there is no topic more covered than immigration. Since before I was born, it’s been a national fixation. You cannot move for people yammering on about immigrants. And in the past five years, it’s turned even more racist and cruel. Stop the bullshit indeed
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More and more such incidents happening daily
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'Kids racially abused me and the adults' reaction broke me'
Sophia Choudry says she is "shaken" and "heartbroken" after being racially abused on the Elizabeth line.
www.bbc.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
More and more such incidents happening daily
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When I was an expert on an EU group, the UK legislative & policy framework from the 1960s race relations (later equality) acts were seencited as 'best practice' in Brussels
I pointed out it also took organised bottom up anti-racism, ppl changing views, & leadership from the top
When I was an expert on an EU group, the UK legislative & policy framework from the 1960s race relations (later equality) acts were seencited as 'best practice' in Brussels
I pointed out it also took organised bottom up anti-racism, ppl changing views, & leadership from the top
This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity
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Comment: Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain?
Black and Asian people have increasingly equal opportunities to reach the top, but a viscerally and unacceptably unequal experience of public space
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September 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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When I was an expert on an EU group, the UK legislative & policy framework from the 1960s race relations (later equality) acts were seencited as 'best practice' in Brussels
I pointed out it also took organised bottom up anti-racism, ppl changing views, & leadership from the top
When I was an expert on an EU group, the UK legislative & policy framework from the 1960s race relations (later equality) acts were seencited as 'best practice' in Brussels
I pointed out it also took organised bottom up anti-racism, ppl changing views, & leadership from the top
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It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.
Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
September 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
It’s quite do-able from a legal perspective. I don’t think dismissing Reform in this way is wise. Voters need to understand that this stuff can happen if they vote for it - and that it would be morally, socially, culturally, economically disastrous. So they shouldn’t vote for it.
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Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
September 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point.
Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
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Absolutely right. It’s not a gimmick. It’s a repudiation of 75 years of integration. It’s a betrayal of the Windrush generation. It’s unfair and it’s un-British.
Labour have already called it “a gimmick”, instead of robustly calling it out, which would, of course, be the correct way to deal with it. Wrong AGAIN, Labour.
September 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Absolutely right. It’s not a gimmick. It’s a repudiation of 75 years of integration. It’s a betrayal of the Windrush generation. It’s unfair and it’s un-British.
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The immigrant experience, even the second or third generation immigrant experience, so often adds up to keeping the suitcases handy.
When I interviewed older South Asian British people about their retirement decisions over a decade ago, a large number said they had kept a passport and land in India and Pakistan 'just in case'
When I asked 'in case what?' they responded 'in case we are told to leave Britain'
When I asked 'in case what?' they responded 'in case we are told to leave Britain'
Nigel Farage: "We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status", and "We will rescind ILR statuses that have already been granted".
The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.
The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.
September 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The immigrant experience, even the second or third generation immigrant experience, so often adds up to keeping the suitcases handy.
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Mass deportation is possible. It’s important to understand what it would really involve. Both the ideology of racial and national purity that drives it and what carrying it out really means in practice. Camps, barbed wire, goon squads, depossessed people who lose everything they know.
Deporting groups of people, ripping them out of the society they are part of, is always ugly and cruel. I published an off cut of Borderlines about it some months ago when Americans were cheering and chanting for it. Now the darkness is spreading here. lewisbaston.substack.com/p/mass-depor...
Mass deportations
I’ve been thinking a lot about Rosa Friedfertig in the last couple of weeks.
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September 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Mass deportation is possible. It’s important to understand what it would really involve. Both the ideology of racial and national purity that drives it and what carrying it out really means in practice. Camps, barbed wire, goon squads, depossessed people who lose everything they know.
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If Labour and other parties can't find a way to scrutinise, criticise and condemn a policy like this, they give Reform a free ride and make the future less safe & certain for those who come here, work hard and contribute.
September 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
If Labour and other parties can't find a way to scrutinise, criticise and condemn a policy like this, they give Reform a free ride and make the future less safe & certain for those who come here, work hard and contribute.
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British artists reclaim St George’s flag with a message of inclusivity
British artists reclaim St George’s flag with a message of inclusivity
In Manchester and beyond creative responses to the unwelcome message of ‘raise the colours’ are appearing
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‘Scary’ and ‘I loved it’: the ‘unite the kingdom’ march
Artists in Britain have customised St George’s flags with messages celebrating diversity, in response to a campaign in which national banners have been flown from lamp-posts, outside homes and painted on roundabouts.
While for many, flying the flag is a genuine expression of national pride, some flags have been graffitied on businesses and places of worship belonging to minority ethnic Britons, in some cases with slurs, after the launch of the operation “raise the colours”. Continue reading...
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September 21, 2025 at 12:05 PM
British artists reclaim St George’s flag with a message of inclusivity
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UNHCR official warns that the 1951 Refugee Convention is increasingly under threat
UNHCR official warns that the 1951 refugee convention is increasingly under threat
The U.N. refugee agency says that governments around the world are increasingly undermining the global convention on refugees and asylum-seekers even threatening its very existence.
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September 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
UNHCR official warns that the 1951 Refugee Convention is increasingly under threat
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New from Free Movement: Yvette Cooper and Home Office immigration ministers cleared out in reshuffle | Colin Yeo freemovement.org.uk/yvette-coope...
Yvette Cooper and Home Office immigration ministers cleared out in reshuffle - Free Movement
Last weekend's reshuffle saw Yvette Cooper replaced as Home Secretary by Shabana Mahmood, who was previously the Lord Chancellor. In addition, Angela Eagle,
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September 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
New from Free Movement: Yvette Cooper and Home Office immigration ministers cleared out in reshuffle | Colin Yeo freemovement.org.uk/yvette-coope...
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A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
September 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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My thoughts on the recent rise of overt racism and how it affects decent people
My thoughts on the recent rise of overt racism and how it affects decent people
Sanjay Bisnauthsing (@sanjaybisnauthsing)
So I’ve started a substack! Why? Honestly, I’m sick and tired of hearing about how “patriots” free speech is being removed and how Britain is being “invaded” by sex offending terrorists etc etc etc....
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September 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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My thoughts on the recent rise of overt racism and how it affects decent people
My thoughts on the recent rise of overt racism and how it affects decent people
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💔⏰ As of 3pm today, family reunion has been suspended. Just days after it was announced.
It will now be even more difficult for women to reunite with their children, their partners and loved ones.
Removing family reunion is cruelty beyond words.
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It will now be even more difficult for women to reunite with their children, their partners and loved ones.
Removing family reunion is cruelty beyond words.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
💔⏰ As of 3pm today, family reunion has been suspended. Just days after it was announced.
It will now be even more difficult for women to reunite with their children, their partners and loved ones.
Removing family reunion is cruelty beyond words.
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It will now be even more difficult for women to reunite with their children, their partners and loved ones.
Removing family reunion is cruelty beyond words.
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Of course the Queen was Remain. You don’t sustain a hereditary monarchy by randomly pulling pins out of grenades for the lols at the urging of a cluster of snake oil chancers.
August 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Of course the Queen was Remain. You don’t sustain a hereditary monarchy by randomly pulling pins out of grenades for the lols at the urging of a cluster of snake oil chancers.
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If they want to show the nation that the ‘raising the flag’ movement isn’t just a bunch of racist arseholes - taking a photograph of a Muslim woman going about her day, and then gleefully mocking her on X like a juvenile twat is not the correct way to go about it.
August 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If they want to show the nation that the ‘raising the flag’ movement isn’t just a bunch of racist arseholes - taking a photograph of a Muslim woman going about her day, and then gleefully mocking her on X like a juvenile twat is not the correct way to go about it.
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I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.
‘Are we, as Richard Seymour suggests, “in the early days of a new fascism”? In 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, Seymour argues that in trying to understand the new far right, we have been looking in the wrong places.’
@trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
Are we, as Richard Seymour suggests, ‘in the early days of a new fascism’? In Disaster Nationalism, Seymour...
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August 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I wrote this with the aim that it would be a durable piece, relevant every time there's a flare-up of far right violence or as far right ideas make further advances into the mainstream. Hope people find it useful.
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🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries
The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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August 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries
The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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🔊We have issued a public statement to mark the anniversary of the start of the summer 2024 riots. Read it in full 👇
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ILPA Statement on the Anniversary of the Summer 2024 Riots - ILPA
Following the tragic events in Southport, last summer saw numerous outbreaks of far-right violence, aggression and intimidation across the UK. The riots did not occur in isolation, but were fuelled […...
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July 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🔊We have issued a public statement to mark the anniversary of the start of the summer 2024 riots. Read it in full 👇
ilpa.org.uk/ilpa-stateme...
ilpa.org.uk/ilpa-stateme...
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Cabinet ministers and third of MPs call on Starmer to recognise state of Palestine
Cabinet ministers and third of MPs call on Starmer to recognise state of Palestine
More than 220 MPs sign letter to prime minister and foreign secretary calling for British recognition of statehood
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Keir Starmer is under intense pressure from his most senior cabinet ministers and more than a third of MPs to move faster on recognising a Palestinian state in response to Israel withholding aid to starving civilians in Gaza.
Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, and Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, are understood to be among ministers who believe the government should take the lead on Palestinian statehood alongside France. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Cabinet ministers and third of MPs call on Starmer to recognise state of Palestine
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The Gaza students with scholarships to UK unable to take up their places
The Gaza students with scholarships to UK unable to take up their places
Visa obstacles threaten to dash the hopes of 40 students due to start in September. Here are some of their stories
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
The Gaza students with scholarships to UK unable to take up their places
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Important reporting from Gaza:
‘There is nothing to buy’: Gaza’s descent into mass starvation
Israel’s offensive and aid curbs tip enclave of 2.1mn Palestinians into famine
www.ft.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Important reporting from Gaza: