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A Border Force officer checks a passport at Heathrow airport. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA A Border Force officer checks a passport at Heathrow airport. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA Mon 19 Apr 2021 06.00 EDT Last modified on Mon 19 Apr 2021 07.47 EDT “I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement’,” the Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently said on his show, “but they become hysterical because that’s what’s happening, actually.” By accusing the Democratic party of trying to “rep...

Yet the policing bill that is currently making its way through parliament, and which will be voted on by MPs tonight, shows that authoritarian populism remains a central part of the Johnson government’s project. Introduced with a now-familiar disregard for parliamentary scrutiny – the 300-page bill was only unveiled a week ago, giving MPs and observers barely enough time to read and interpret its contents – the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill proposes new powers that will allow senior police officers and the home secretary to restrict protest in unprecedented ways, as well as ...

This article is more than 1 month old Biden’s early reforms are promising – and what the US does can help set standards for the rest of the world Asylum seekers at the El Chaparral crossing port in Tijuana, Mexico, 19 February 2021. ‘The US began allowing asylum seekers to cross its southern border for the first time since Trump’s ‘remain in Mexico’ initiative was launched in January 2019.’ Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images Asylum seekers at the El Chaparral crossing port in Tijuana, Mexico, 19 February 2021. ‘The US began allowing asylum see...

If Donald Trump’s presidency was a lesson in how symbolic acts of cruelty can be used to consolidate power, then his successors are trying to demonstrate that the same is true for benevolence. In just over a month, the Biden-Harris administration has issued a flurry of new directives aimed at reversing some of the worst aspects of the former president’s immigration policy. Biden has declared an end to the travel restrictions imposed on numerous...

Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty; Reuters; Camilla Perkins; Jim Stoten; Nathalie Lees; Leah Nash Illustration: Guardian Design/Getty; Reuters; Camilla Perkins; Jim Stoten; Nathalie Lees; Leah Nash Our 20 favourite pieces of the year Tue 22 Dec 2020 07.00 EST Last modified on Fri 8 Jan 2021 06.28 EST