Institute of Race Relations

‘The most racist law to come to Britain’: Protests against Nationality and Borders Bill outside Parliament

‘The most racist law to come to Britain’: Protests against Nationality and Borders Bill outside Parliament ...
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UK loses out on £19bn in annual GDP growth due to lack of social mobility

UK loses out on £19bn in annual GDP growth due to lack of social mobility ...
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Citizenship: from right to privilege

Citizenship-stripping powers introduced since 2002 have enshrined a ‘second-class citizenship’ in the UK, mainly affecting British Muslims, says a new report from the Institute of Race Relations.
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Stop changing the subject – the problem is fascism

These far-right riots and the ensuing racist and Islamophobic violence are unparalleled. Yet the government’s response is to focus on ‘violent disorder across the ideological spectrum’. This ...
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From GPS tagging to facial recognition watches: expanding the surveillance of migrants in the UK

Written by Lucie Audibert (Lawyer and Legal Officer, Privacy International) & Monish Bhatia (Lecturer in Criminology, Birkbeck, University of London) Through its use ...
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Sharia Watch UK and the metamorphosis of Anne Marie Waters

In the first of an occasional series from Spinwatch, Hilary Aked examines Sharia Watch and its founder Anne Marie Waters. Spinwatch, which investigates and campaigns on PR, propaganda and lobbying in ...
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A threat to public safety: policing, racism and the Covid-19 pandemic

A new report from the IRR and Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) suggests that policing during the Covid-19 pandemic undermines public health measures whilst disproportionately targeting Black ...
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Anti-racist witchcraft

The question of loyalty to British traditions was already under attack thirty years ago in relation to the work of the Institute of Race Relations. As Britain reels from the fallout from the the Paris ...
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Feminism, biological fundamentalism and the attack on trans rights

Across Europe, the far Right is mobilising around sexual difference and for the forced imposition of heterosexual norms by drawing on biological arguments to border the ‘other’. Whilst we are familiar ...
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The Met Gangs Matrix – institutional racism in action

Lee Bridges, Professor Emeritus (School of Law, University of Warwick), examines the ethnic composition of the Metropolitan police’s gangs database. In October 2014, the Met police disclosed ...
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Policy and prosecutorial responses to the summer 2024 riots risk fuelling a cycle of racist violence

Policy and prosecutorial responses to the summer 2024 riots delink the violence from racism, paving the way for anti-immigration and Islamophobic protests and far-right vigilantism to form an infinite ...
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Racism, radicalisation and Europe’s ‘Thin Blue Line’

In a double-length lead article of the July issue of Race & Class, IRR director Liz Fekete warns of a deepening ‘culture of extremism’ amongst police officers across Europe, highlighting numerous ...