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The National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station, London
‘Ah the irony:’ Aamer Anwar says he doubts Reform has handed over the names of the far-right thugs who went on the rampage in Glasgow last weekend to the Police
THE “woeful” compensation scheme for Windrush scandal victims must move faster amid “unacceptable” delays in payouts, according to a campaign backed by Baroness Doreen Lawrence and singer Annie Lennox.
The Justice4Windrush campaign is demanding “full and swift compensation” for victims, as the five-year anniversary of the scheme’s launch in April 2019 approaches.
Less than a fifth of the victims of the Windrush scandal have been paid the compensation they were promised five years ago after they were denied access to healthcare and benefits and threatened with deportation despite having the right to live in Britain.
1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine
Digital ID means the government could track anyone and then limit their speech, movements, finances — and it could get this all wrong, identifying the wrong people for the wrong reasons, as the numerous digital cockups so far demonstrate, warns DYLAN MURPHY
