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In Britain, racial discrimination starts early. Black children are more likely than white peers to be excluded from school and face in-class discrimination.

The Court of Appeal has ruled on a very important legal challenge to a core element of the UK Government's ‘hostile environment’ approach to immigration control, the ‘right to rent’ rules that require private landlords to check the immigration status of potential tenants before letting to them.

Written by: Amy Clair, ESRC Research Centre for Micro-Social Change, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex

The past few days have been astonishing, for many reasons.  The coronavirus, Covid 19, has shoved the economy into what is almost certainly a deep recession, and cherished civil liberties...

Yesterday, March 18th, in response to COVID-19 the Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, announced that schools in England would close from Friday to all children except those of “key workers” and...

‘A change is gonna come’ Next month, the George Osborne policy of freezing benefits will come to an end. The freeze began in 2016 but was announced in 2014, in...