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Are immigrants with clout less likely to be deported?

Broken system

There are numerous examples of the Home Office responding more quickly to individuals in the public eye, which begs the question: why do some cases warrant their attention, while others don’t?

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‘More police power is a recipe for repression’

Last weekend, protests in Bristol were met with horrifying levels of police brutality. These scenes should galvanise people in defending their fundamental right to protest, writes the MP for Coventry South.

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Bristol protests: the full story, told by those who were there

#KillTheBill

Last weekend, protests erupted into chaos in the South West of England city over a draconian bill that seeks to increase police powers. Politics Editor Ben Smoke speaks to protestors to find out what really happened.

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Athens is rising up against police brutality

Chaos in the streets

An alleged police beating in the city’s suburbia has violently unleashed pent-up anger over an out-of-control police force and the government’s mishandling of the pandemic and destruction of democratic rights.

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Police storming the vigil for Sarah Everard, in photos

Reclaim the streets

Last weekend, a peaceful vigil was held in memory of Sarah Everard. Our photographer, Theo McInnes, was on hand to capture the event, which started off as a sombre affair but later turned into a stark display of a police force drunk on power.

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It‘s a Sin’s Nathaniel Hall on the reality of living with HIV

Fighting stigma

We sat down on our Instagram channel with actor and activist Nathaniel Hall, who contracted HIV at age 16, to discuss the Channel 4 drama and how, after years of keeping it secret, he came to live openly and boldly with the disease.

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The anarchists helping students take on landlords

This is SolFed

Throughout the pandemic, the government has neglected students – particularly when it comes to housing. But a group of old school activists are stepping in and using radical politics to fight for a younger generation.

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The queer activists reclaiming Norse myth from the far-right

Make vikings gay again

White supremacy and Norse myth have long been interconnected – but a community of LGBTQ+ activists and allies are fighting to save this noble tradition from hate.

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We must change how we think about unemployment

Time to organise

A century on from the original National Unemployed Workers' Movement, a newly-launched radical organisation is bringing together workers made unemployed by the pandemic to demand and resist.