50 h. ago Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik

He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loopImmigration has been a fixture of Britain’s political discourse for so long, it now feels, like Voltaire’s god, that if the issue did not exist, we would have to invent it. What would our politics look like, what would the broad majority of Britain’s media do with themselves, without immigration? It has become such a feature of the country’s political culture, it amounts to a sort of historical exhibit: “rivers of blood”, the “hostile environment”, “go home” vans, “controls on immigration” crockery, the Brexit “breaking point” poster, the Windrush scandal, “stop the boats”, “island of strangers”. And now, summer riots.What conjoins all of these is one thing: misinformation. I have banged on for years in this column about the disconnect between immigration discourse and the reality of how hard and expensive it is to enter the ...

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57 h. ago More foreign criminals to be deported before appeals in bid to end 'exploitation'

The government is introducing a 'deport now, appeal later' scheme aimed at tackling foreign crooks in the UK. A total of 23 countries signed up to the scheme.

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58 h. ago Labour expands 'deport now, appeal later' scheme in bid to stop foreign criminals 'exploiting' Britain's immigration system

Offenders from another 15 countries including India, Bulgaria and Australia will now be included in the scheme, bringing the total to 23 countries.

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2 d. ago The Colombian immigrant who became 'Britain's Pablo Escobar': How Jesus Ruiz Henao built a £1bn drug empire in the UK

Jesus Ruiz Henao reflected on his story in a two-part Discovery+ docuseries The Bus Driver: Britain's Cocaine King that marks the jailed drug baron's first TV interview.

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9 d. ago Britain's new immigration hotspots: Up to one in 20 residents in some boroughs are migrants who came here last year

It comes after Government data yesterday revealed that the total population of the two nations shot up by 700,000 in 2023/24. Immigration fuelled the surge - the second largest since WW2

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9 d. ago Britain's new immigration hotspots mapped: Up to one in 20 residents in some boroughs are migrants who came here last year

It comes after Government data yesterday revealed that the total population of the two nations shot up by 700,000 in 2023/24. Immigration fuelled the surge - the second largest since WW2

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3 w. ago Why is it so hard for the authorities to win public trust? Maybe because they keep lying to us | Gaby Hinsliff

If it’s not superinjunctions, it’s Epstein files or deepfakes. It’s hard not to be a conspiracy theorist when sometimes they really are out to get youIf you were to invent a scandal expressly to convince conspiracy theorists they were right all along, the story of the Afghan superinjunction would be hard to beat.A secret back door into Britain through which thousands of immigrants were brought, under cover of a draconian legal gagging order that helpfully also concealed an act of gross incompetence by the British state? It’s a rightwing agitator’s dream. “The real disinformation,” wrote Dominic Cummings on X, a platform notably awash with real disinformation, “is the regime media.” Yes, that Dominic Cummings.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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