Clare Dunne

Excellent interview- to the other poster, you can be a feminist enjoy fashion. I don't think it demeans the article.

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

'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.

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

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.

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’.

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.

The immigrant experience, even the second or third generation immigrant experience, so often adds up to keeping the suitcases handy.

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.

It's the classic I'm alright Jack attitude isn't it.

Yes I agree too. They need to alter the language they use to respond to Reform. I just heard that the labour spokesperson's response was that it's just a gimmick.

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.

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 * ‘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...

British artists reclaim St George’s flag with a message of inclusivity

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.

UNHCR official warns that the 1951 Refugee Convention is increasingly under threat

Top facts from the latest statistics on refugees and people seeking asylum - Refugee Council Here are our top facts based on the UK Government's latest immigration statistics for the year ending March 2025.

This is wrong. For 2024 the allowed rate is 48% www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...

This was a great article Colin and so fact based. If only the media could do the same...

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,

New from Free Movement: Yvette Cooper and Home Office immigration ministers cleared out in reshuffle | Colin Yeo freemovement.org.uk/yvette-coope...

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.

What a terrible word to use - infested!

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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My thoughts on the recent rise of overt racism and how it affects decent people

I will share this. I agreed with it all. You are not alone!

Indeed I feel like a real mug for being happy when they won last year!

💔⏰ As of 3pm today, family reunion has been suspended.⁣ Just days after it was announced.
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It will now be even more difficult for women to reunite with their children, their partners and loved ones.⁣
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Removing family reunion is cruelty beyond words.

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Your first caller made an assumption that refugees will go into low paid work. I think it is important to state that some refugees are highly qualified, some are teachers, engineers, doctors and had good jobs in their countries.

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.

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.

Yes it's hardly anything - it's hardly a luxurious life!

Rylan should be aware that there are lots of LGBT individuals who claim asylum because they happened to be born in a country where they are persecuted. Does he not have any empathy for them?

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.

It is not the ECHR that would need to be looked at but the 1951 Refugee Convention this is the document which legally defines what a refugee is. I'd be concerned about narrowing the definition further.