Farage branded ‘disastrous’ and ‘damaging’ by SNP over immigration plans Stephen Gethins hit out after the Reform UK leader unveiled plans to deport up to 600,000 asylum seekers in a year. Evening Standard · Aug 27, 2025
Tories would ‘potentially’ strike returns deal with Taliban, says party chairman Kevin Hollinrake’s comments come after Nigel Farage raised the possibility of Reform UK negotiating a returns agreement with the Afghan government. Evening Standard · Aug 27, 2025
Taliban 'ready' to work with Labour or Reform to deport Afghan asylum seekers THE Taliban are “ready and willing” to work with Nigel Farage or “anyone else” to take asylum seekers who have fled their brutal regime back… The National (Scotland) · Aug 27, 2025
UK politics: Tories and Reform offer only ‘easy answers and snake oil’ on UK-EU relationship, minister warns – as it happened Nick Thomas-Symonds also accused Farage of ‘dividing communities and stoking anger’ The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2025
Wednesday briefing: How Britain’s asylum debate is shifting further to the right In today’s newsletter: With ‘Operation Restoring Justice’, Nigel Farage has set the political agenda with a maximalist vision on migration. The bigger question is how far mainstream parties will follow his lead The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2025
41 Hilariously Bad Lies Students Put On College Applications Just To Get In, But Still Failed How did anyone think these applications would get through? Bored Panda · Aug 26, 2025
Keir Starmer refuses to condemn Nigel Farage's mass deportation speech Keir Starmer has refused to criticise Nigel Farage’s speech where he outlined his plans to deport 600,000 asylum seekers which he called a… The National (Scotland) · Aug 26, 2025
Farage ‘copying our homework’ with immigration plans, Badenoch says At a press conference on Tuesday, Reform UK pledged to scale up detention capacity for asylum seekers and increase deportations. The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2025
Voices: Finally! Nigel Farage concedes that there’s no easy solution to the migrant question COMMENT: According to its thin and unconvincing immigration plan, Reform UK expects the British government to pay the Taliban and the Iranian regime to take back its asylum seekers – and yet the party still has no answers for many crucial questions, says John Rentoul The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2025
Keir Starmer open to Taliban returns deal as Nigel Farage sets out deportation plans Keir Starmer has left the door open to signing deportation deals with the Taliban after Nigel Farage set out Reform UK’s plans for mass… The National (Scotland) · Aug 26, 2025
Reform ‘could deport 600,000 asylum seekers’ under immigration plan Nigel Farage has warned of a ‘genuine threat to public order’ without action to tackle illegal migration. Evening Standard · Aug 26, 2025
Taxpayer money would go to Taliban under Reform UK migrant plans IN FULL The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2025
Reform would pay the Taliban to take back migrants, Zia Yusuf admits The former party chairman said he thinks it is ‘quite reasonable’ to hand money to the regime in order to agree a returns agreement The Independent UK · Aug 26, 2025
‘All they dream of is leaving’: the reality of life for women under the Taliban Chela Noori, the founder and president of the Afghan Women of France organisation, was recently able to travel across Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban returned to power in 2021. She told RFI about the conditions in which she found women and girls living, under the oppressive regime. Radio France Internationale · Aug 24, 2025
The Guardian - US · Aug 22, 2025 Thousands face deportation to danger as Trump targets temporary protections People with temporary protected status face possible deportation even though their home countries – including Afghanistan and Haiti – remain unsafe
Evening Standard · Aug 21, 2025 Watchdog urged to probe ‘dangerous shambles’ of Afghan relocation data breaches A freedom of information request by the BBC revealed there have been 49 data breaches in the past four years.
Evening Standard · Aug 21, 2025 Government ‘admits 49 Afghan data breaches in four years’ Seven breaches were serious enough to be reported to the UK’s data watchdog, the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Al Jazeera · Aug 21, 2025 Can China make Pakistan and the Taliban friends again? As China pushes to expand the CPEC, Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions continue to cast a shadow over trilateral diplomacy.
The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2025 Pakistan, China and Afghanistan hold high-level meeting in Kabul to boost cooperation Top diplomats from Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan have met in Kabul to boost political and economic cooperation
International Business Times UK · Aug 20, 2025 Deadly Bus Collision Kills Over 70 Afghan Deportees From Iran Amid Heightened Deportation Operations A bus carrying Afghan refugees crashed and killed over 70 deportees. The accident occurred as the Iranian government increases its deportation efforts.
Euronews · Aug 20, 2025 Bus crash in Afghanistan kills dozens of migrants returning from Iran A collision between a bus and two other vehicles killed at least 79 people, including 19 children, in northwestern Afghanistan, local media reported.
The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2025 At least 71 Afghan refugees killed in huge bus crash after being deported by Iran All passengers were Afghans deported by Iran
The National (Scotland) · Aug 18, 2025 I have a second family and home in Scotland, says Afghan medical student A WOMAN who fled Afghanistan to pursue her childhood dream of becoming a doctor has said Scotland is now her second home ...
The Independent UK · Aug 18, 2025 Search underway for missing after Pakistan flash floods kill over 330 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province declares emergency as weather department issues new heavy rain warning
Newslaundry · Aug 18, 2025 How the Taliban’s propaganda empire consumed Afghan media In four years, the Taliban have annihilated Afghanistan’s independent media sector and supplanted it with their own propaganda empire and sophisticated digital bots that flood social media with pro-Taliban content.