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Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert @alexkelbert.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Putting this event up at @sprc-ucl.bsky.social on 28th May, 18.15pm Join us to hear from the amazing artist Rudy Loewe's work on Britain’s attempts to destroy Caribbean Black Power movements during the 1960s and 70s, and turning archival work into paintings.

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State Secrets & Black Power: Transforming Archival Research into Painting

The SPRC warmly welcomes Rudy Loewe

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

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Sarah Parker Remond Centre @sprc-ucl.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Check out our latest episode: In Conversation with Keir Milburn and Kai Heron www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racia... #podcast #radicalabundance #globaleconomy

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…

The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 26/01/2026

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

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Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · 14/01/2026

An important story in today’s Guardian on a new report showing that teenagers in care are four times more likely to attempt to end their own life than those with no care experience, from #NuffieldFunded research by a team at @ioe.bsky.social. Read the story: bit.ly/45dhdxv

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One in four UK teenagers in care have attempted to end their lives, study says

Research also shows teenagers in care are four times more likely to try to end their lives than peers with no care history

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Sarah Parker Remond Centre @sprc-ucl.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Checkout the ‘Cultural Location of Fascism’ series. Includes blogs by SPRC staff @lukedenoronha.bsky.social (Luke de Norhona), PhD student (Tommy Maddinson) and affiliate/former PhD student (Gabriel Bristow). reframe.sussex.ac.uk/statesofcult... #Blogs #CulturalLocationofFascism

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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The latest issue of Race & Class is available to purchase now or read online via Sage This issue leads with a piece on Awaab Ishak and the devaluation of migrant, working-class life by Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert and Rupinder Parhar. irr.org.uk/product/race...

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Race & Class, January 2025 - Institute of Race Relations

Articles Awaab Ishak and the devaluation of migrant, working-class life by Alexandra Wanjiku Kelbert and Rupinder Parhar Sweden’s race to the bottom: advancing a racial security state by Leandro S...

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Oh, this looks good. Michael Billig, Sivamohan Valluvan & Kojo Kyerewaa on Flags & Performative Nationalism: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/flags-and-...

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Flags and Performative Nationalism

SSAHE webinar on the role of flags for resurgent nationalism, the mainstreaming of the far right, and how to resist this

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