Articles by Diane Taylor

UK construction workers at risk from modern slavery, charity warns

Helpline run by Unseen receives hundreds of calls a year from potential victims of exploitation

Labour’s asylum plans are horribly cruel – but they’re also a mix of hype, old policy and unachievable promises | Diane Taylor

There is mounting disquiet among Labour MPs, while the vulnerable refugees at the heart of this story are living with a renewed sense of panic, says Diane Taylor, who writes on human rights, racism and civil liberties

3 days ago

Health

Hundreds of low-paid NHS hospital staff win improved terms after strike threat

More than 330 workers, mainly cleaners, caterers and porters, at St George’s, Epsom and St Helier hospital group had voted to strike

5 days ago

Sports

Avanti accused of ‘virtue signalling without virtue’ over wheelchair user art

Campaigners say train image of two wheelchair users does not reflect reality of single wheelchair space in standard class

6 days ago

Entertainment

Senior Manston asylum centre staff under investigation for misconduct

Two senior figures have been suspended at site in Kent that has been plagued by failings in past few years

6 days ago

Politics

Rats, overcrowding and malnutrition common at UK asylum hotels, report finds

Home Office’s three accommodation providers made combined profit of £380m over five years, charity estimates

Nov 10, 2025

World

Parents appeal to Home Office after daughter left homeless in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa

Lati-Yana Brown’s parents, who have been saving to pay for UK visa application, say situation is now an emergency

Nov 7, 2025

World

Concerns raised over planned second removal of Iranian who returned to UK on small boat

Exclusive: Lawyers tell Home Office about health issues of man who says smuggling gangs make it too dangerous for him to go back to France

Nov 4, 2025

World

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care

Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Nov 1, 2025

Inquiry into conditions at Manston asylum centre has stalled, critics say

Lawyers acting for some of those unlawfully detained in appalling conditions at site in 2022 call for end to delays

Oct 29, 2025

Home Office squandered billions on ‘failed and chaotic’ asylum accommodation

Commons committee describes successive governments’ failures to manage hotel use, contracts, spending and safeguarding

Oct 27, 2025

High court halts eviction of refugee under Home Office 28-day policy

Judge intervenes in case, disapplying government rule that charities say drives refugees into homelessness

Oct 26, 2025

French coastguards demand halt to ‘deadly plans’ to intercept small boats

Union says UK-French Channel deal is inhumane and contravenes international conventions

Oct 23, 2025

Met officer accused of sharing rape case footage is cleared of misconduct

Ex-girlfriend alleged Adam Aspinall Da Encarnacao shared footage from cases of Natalie Shotter and a second woman

Oct 20, 2025

Human rights groups call for France to suspend ‘one in, one out’ treaty with UK

UK and French organisations file legal challenge against July agreement to swap asylum seekers

Oct 14, 2025

Family says failure to assess man’s mental health led to his death on Bibby Stockholm

Leonard Farruku was unwell and should not have been moved to barge where he took his own life, say sisters

Oct 13, 2025

NHS hospital group’s facilities staff vote to strike over £30m pay discrimination claim

Union accuses St George’s, Epsom and St Helier of ‘institutional racism’ as cleaners, caterers and porters get lower pay than colleagues

Oct 9, 2025

NHS trust’s facilities staff vote to strike over pay discrimination claim

Union accuses hospital group of ‘institutional racism’ as cleaners and porters get lower pay than colleagues

Oct 9, 2025

Home Office missed chances to assess man who died on Bibby Stockholm, coroner finds

‘Distraught’ Leonard Farruku, 27, was found dead in shower cubicle on Dorset barge

Oct 2, 2025

Asylum seekers deported to France live in fear of smugglers’ reprisals

Six asylum seekers placed in homeless shelter say they are ‘frightened’ they will be forcibly returned to home countries

Oct 2, 2025