Windrush
Total 17 Posts
The Home Office still treats Windrush victims with contempt.
4 min read
On the car crash of a performance Matthew Rycroft gave in his evidence to the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee on the Windrush Compensation Scheme.
Study shows UK school textbooks teach a highly simplified version of US civil rights movement.
4 min read
Learning about the Windrush generation in UK school remains an optional topic for 11 to 14-year-olds studying history. Critics have condemned Britain’s “historical amnesia”.
The UK immigration system is broken – Coronavirus and Brexit will make it even worse.
4 min read
This is a system that will likely become even worse given the impact of Brexit and the backlog of cases created by the pandemic.
No, the Border Force isn’t the real victim of the Windrush scandal.
7 min read
On Wednesday, we were inexplicably tagged in a Telegraph article by Home Affairs editor Charles Hymas. We are going to set out the substantive points it raises.
The Week in Tory.
6 min read
The damning state of governance in the UK... It absolutely hurts the eyes.
On the Rutnam-Patel row, the background, and the implications of Rutnam’s resignation.
3 min read
A grown-up analysis by Jill Rutter. An interesting thread about the history of the Home Office ending careers, the wider ramifications of Philip Rutnam’s recent resignation, and the longer term effect on the future of the UK Civil Service.
Why the charges of “now you care” against EU citizens are misguided.
4 min read
Someone said that EU citizens living in the UK did not care about citizens’ rights until it personally affected them. Since I have heard this charge of narrow self-interest before (the “Oh now you care” charge), let me respond in this piece.