This week, Andy Burnham's first major act as prime minister-in-waiting was to back Shabana Mahmood's Immigration and Asylum Bill through its second reading, a High Court ruling on trafficking protections was quietly set aside, and opposition to military-site asylum accommodation hardened from Oxfordshire to North Yorkshire. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, the Immigration and Asylum Bill's human cost came into sharper focus ahead of Monday's Second Reading, opposition to military accommodation deepened from Halifax to Bicester, and a major investigation exposed the hate campaign now facing migration charities - including IMIX's own CEO. Our analysis of what the coverage got right, what it missed, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, the government's new Immigration and Asylum Bill combined a £10,000 repayment charge with a fresh community sponsorship scheme, local opposition to military accommodation deepened across three counties, and an anti-migrant film boosted by Elon Musk showed hostility being packaged as entertainment. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, anti-immigration riots tore through Belfast following a serious knife attack, with far-right networks and social media amplifying violence against ethnic minority communities. Elsewhere, political turbulence over settlement rights and Labour leadership signalled deeper fault lines in immigration policy, and Refugee Week preparations offered a counterpoint across communities nationwide. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, net migration statistics dominated the headlines but missed the bigger story, a landmark care worker tribunal win exposed how tied visas enable exploitation, and plans to use AI to age-assess child asylum seekers drew fierce opposition — despite 326 children already being wrongly designated as adults in just six months. Our analysis of what the coverage revealed, what it missed, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, a sweeping new Immigration and Asylum Bill dominated the agenda, the UK signed a controversial European declaration that could weaken human rights protections in deportation cases, and tens of thousands marched through London at Tommy Robinson's largest rally since September. Our analysis of what the coverage revealed, what it missed, and what it means for journalists and the sector.
This week, Reform UK began converting election gains into concrete policy action on resettlement, the King’s Speech set out an immigration and asylum bill drawing immediate cross-party criticism, and a BBC investigation put people-smuggling networks under sustained scrutiny. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn’t, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, Labour's asylum overhaul faced its first legal challenge as the human cost of the proposed reforms came into focus, Reform UK dominated pre-election coverage with a detention centre announcement widely condemned as a political stunt, and deaths in the Channel once again exposed the consequences of closing safe routes. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, the UK-France Channel deal was tested almost immediately by tragedy, rescues, and a legal challenge, Labour's immigration reforms provoked a sharp pushback from migrant workers and within the Home Secretary's own party, and three individual stories exposed the human cost of systems that rarely face scrutiny. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, the human cost of Shabana Mahmood's asylum reforms dominated coverage from every angle, an age assessment ruling exposed deep problems with how the UK treats child migrants, and a story about Iranian footballers revealed how media empathy operates on a double standard. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
There is a lot the sector can learn from the story the Greens told in Gorton & Denton, and how they told it, particularly for those working to counter the far right in our current political climate.
IMIX's Esther Raffell looks at
what cut through, and what it means more broadly for how we win on migration and progressive platforms.
This week, the government's asylum policy overhaul, the hotel numbers story and the impact of hostilities in Iran. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
