9 June: Palantir sends a ‘letter before action’ to London mayor Sadiq Khan’s office signalling its intention to sue for blocking its £50 million data analysis contract with the Met Police, a decision ...

Race & Class, the quarterly journal of the Institute of Race Relations on ‘Racism, Empire and Globalisation’, is looking for an editorial assistant to support the editors 12 hours per week in ...

31 March: A statutory inquiry into group-based sexual exploitation of children in England and Wales (dubbed the ‘Grooming Gangs inquiry’) announces its terms of reference, including to ‘directly ...

University of Manchester sociology lecturer Siobhan O’Neill’s research, published in the January 2026 edition of the IRR’s journal Race & Class, emerges out of community organising around an ...

This briefing paper is aimed at providing community sector voices, concerned politicians and policy makers with an overview of trends on the far Right, also examining developments in electoral ...

Bill Rolston reflects on the importance of international solidarity today in the context of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and explains why such a resonance exists between Ireland and Palestine, ...

As anti-migrant, anti-equalities, anti-abortion, misogynistic and anti-LGBTQI rhetoric in electoral campaigning are increasingly interlinked, we reflect this in the coverage below which also includes ...

One year after the orchestrated far-right racist riots of summer 2024 that followed the horrific murders of Bebe King (6), Elsie Dot Stancombe (7) and Alice Dasilva Aguiar (9), at a dance class in ...

In November 2023, four UN Special Rapporteurs (part of Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council) pointed out that the worldwide climate of criminalisation and sanctions against those speaking ...

Research from the IRR on charging and sentencing after the far-right-orchestrated racial violence in England in summer 2024,[i] finds that attacks could be traced back to scare statements about ...

Less than six months after the far-right orchestrated racist riots that targeted asylum accommodation and mosques, comes a new bout of dog-whistle Islamophobia, fomented by Elon Musk who reposted ...

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 ...