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Windrush: only one in four applicants have received compensation

Figure comes four years after people wrongly classified as illegal immigrants were promised redress

The Guardian - UK

Faces in a London crowd: museum’s appeal to identify Windrush arrivals

The National Railway Museum in quest to tell stories of the West Indian passengers caught on camera at Waterloo station as they began a new life in Britain

The Guardian - UK

Home Office tried to ‘sanitise’ staff education module on colonialism

Disagreements have led to delay in course rollout as civil servants think empire material ‘too controversial’

The Guardian - UK

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The racist legislation that led to Windrush

A suppressed report has concluded the fiasco’s roots lie in immigration legislation from 1950 to 1981

The Guardian - UK

Windrush scandal caused by ‘30 years of racist immigration laws’ – report

Exclusive: legislation has been designed to reduce the UK’s non-white population, according to leaked government paper

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re human beings too’: How a decade of the hostile environment has torn lives apart

It is 10 years since Theresa May first used the phrase that has become synonymous with hardline policies on migrants. In that decade – from “go home” vans to the Windrush scandal – thousands have faced fear and uncertainty as a result. They tell Nadine White their stories

The Independent UK

From ‘go home’ vans to Windrush scandal: a timeline of UK’s hostile environment

Theresa May first revealed Tory policy that has been derided across the world

The Guardian - UK

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Home Office staff worry they may be asked to act illegally in ‘culture of fear’

After 10 years of hostile environment, critics say immigration crackdown has had devastating human cost

The Guardian - UK

‘Like going back in time’: Windrush victim told to send selfies to DWP or lose universal credit

‘I went through all of this for 10 years and to be put back there again is devastating,’ says Glenda Caesar

The Independent UK

The last Labour government wasn’t so bad after all, was it George?

Letters: Chris Donnison asks George Monbiot to reconsider an article he wrote in 2008, and Gerald Clarke is disappointed that he did not mention the Windrush scandal in his his attack on the Conservatives

The Guardian - UK

Teaching the ‘benefits’ of the British empire is just another attempt to stoke the culture war

The legacy of empire still shapes the world. But Kemi Badenoch’s plan will ensure that ignorance reigns over this, says Kojo Koram, law lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London

The Guardian - UK

Joy Labinjo: ‘I wanted to correct the notion that Black people arrived in Britain with Windrush’

For her latest show, the Dagenham-born artist bridges the personal and the political by bringing forgotten but crucial figures back to life

The Guardian - UK

Windrush: Home Office has failed to transform its culture, report says

Independent expert Wendy Williams finds ‘lack of tangible progress or drive to achieve cultural changes required’

The Guardian - UK

Home Office blasted for exaggerating progress made after Windrush scandal

Home Secretary Priti Patel has said she is 'pleased' with what the Home Office has achieved, despite a damning report highlighting only eight out of 30 recommendations, to shift the department's culture, have been made in two years.

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The Independent UK

Home Office must change or next Windrush may only be a matter of time – report

So far, only eight of 30 recommendations from a review two years ago have been implemented in full.

The Independent UK

Home Office ‘runs risk of another Windrush’ if it doesn’t transform culture, independent reviewer says

Report by Wendy Williams finds ‘limited evidence’ that Home Office is being compassionate when handling cases

Evening Standard

Change or risk another Windrush scandal, Home Office is warned

The Home Office is at risk of another Windrush type scandal because of its “disappointing” progress in implementing key reforms to change its culture, the author of an official inquiry has warned.

The Independent UK

More progress needed if Home Office is to learn from Windrush scandal – report

The findings come two years after a critical review by Wendy Williams concluded the scandal was ‘foreseeable and avoidable’.

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The Independent UK

Changes needed so Windrush payout scheme is ‘efficient and effective’ – report

Martin Levermore, the Government’s independent adviser on Windrush, acknowledged there had been criticism of the scheme.

The Guardian - UK

Growing calls in Caribbean to cut ties to monarchy as royals fly out

William and Kate’s visit seen as attempt to persuade countries not to follow Barbados in ditching monarchy

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: Boris Johnson says he fears Putin may use chemical weapons in Ukraine – as it happened

PM says Russian claims about enemies getting ready to use chemical weapons echoes what happened before the use of chemical weapons in Syria

The Guardian - UK

Lenny Henry to make playwright debut with Windrush drama

Henry will also star in August in England, to be staged at London’s Bush theatre as part of 50th birthday celebrations

Daily Mirror

What is Windrush scandal as UK celebrates day for vital generation who rebuilt country

When the ship the Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury in 1948 it sparked an influx of migrants from the Caribbean, but a government scandal rocked the sons and daughters of workers who helped rebuild post-war Britain

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