Windrush Survivors Offered Partial Redress as Home Office Delivers Justice in Installments Ahead of Windrush Conference in Birmingham
JamRadio Newsdesk | Social Affairs
Seven years after the government first apologised the Home Office has announced a major shift in its handling of Windrush compensation claims, promising to pay 75% of estimated compensation upfront to victims of its scandal. The announcement comes ahead of today's Windrush National Orginisation Conference in Birmingham, Where Citizenship Minister Mike Tapp MP is likely to make a statement.
While this move is being presented as a breakthrough, it reads more like an overdue admission of failure. For years, survivors of the......
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Israeli Police have cancelled the Tel Aviv derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel on Sunday night, citing “violent riots” and “risks to human life”. Thirteen civilians and three officers were injured by pyrotechnic devices hurled inside Bloomfield Stadium, with footage showing flares raining down and riot police forced into defensive formations.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has placed political pressure West Midlands Police to reverse their decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from attending the upcoming Europa League clash at Villa Park. Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch has also criticised the decision.
Should......
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In a move that reeks of desperation or perhaps pre-emptive damage control, Prince Andrew has relinquished all remaining royal titles, including the Duke of York, following renewed scrutiny over his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The timing is suspicious. For years, Andrew has maintained his innocence, denying all allegations and distancing himself from Epstein’s sordid legacy. Yet now, without fresh charges or public revelations, he’s stepping back further than ever before. Why now? What’s coming down the pipeline prompting his royal retreat?
Prince Andrew surrenders the Duke of York title—as Epstein ties and......
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The UK government today launched its first official digital ID, a move which has sparked renewed public fury. Starting today Digital ID cards are being rolled out, in a controversial move which the government claims will make it easier for the use to acces public service. A digital Veteran Cards for ex-service personnel. Ministers hailed the rollout as a “modernization milestone,” part of a sweeping plan to digitize all forms of identification by 2027.
British Military Veterans can now access secure digital versions of their ID cards via smartphone. The government claims this will streamline access to services and discounts, and serve as a pilot......
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In what may become one of the largest pharmaceutical liability cases in British history, more than 3,000 UK residents have launched a class action lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson, alleging that its iconic baby powder contained asbestos and caused ovarian cancer, mesothelioma, and other deadly diseases.
The suit, filed at the High Court in London, accuses Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries—including Kenvue UK, the consumer health spin-off—as having knowingly sold contaminated talcum powder for decades. Internal memos and scientific reports cited in the case suggest the company was aware of the risks as early as the 1970s, yet continued to......
By Tracy Ann Dunkley
The Home Office continues to operate in a state of calculated inertia, where action is not driven by duty but by desperation—desperation to avoid public embarrassment. Time and again, it has proven that it does not serve the people; it serves silence, until that silence is shattered by media scrutiny and public outrage. This is not governance. It's institutional ignorance and cruelty masquerading as procedure.
How could being born Anguilla make you a British citizen, while being born in Britain itself - in the exact same circumstances means that you are not British and must pay for your NHS treatment? @ShabanaMahmood @MikeTappTweets #JusticeForZharia #Zhariah......
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Met Police confirm armed pursuit vehicle involved in Marcus Fakana case as community search for answers.
The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that the vehicle which pursued Marcus Fakana shortly before his fatal crash was an Armed Response Vehicle (ARV)—a revelation that raises urgent questions about the nature of the pursuit and the operational decisions made in the moments leading up to Fakana’s death.
A Met Police Armed Response Vehicle (right) caputred at the seen of the crash detailed with tactical sticker on windrshield
In a statement issued to JamRadio the force said:
“The car which pursued the vehicle for a short time was a Met armed......
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A three-year-old girl from Birmingham has been told she cannot have a British passport. Zharia-Rae was born in the United Kingdom in 2022. Her mother, Tracy Ann Dunkley, says the Home Office has refused to recognise her daughter as a British citizen and issue her a British passport because she was born in the UK.
Zharia-Rae is not a British citizen—because she was born in the UK. But had she been born in Anguilla where her mother grew up, she would be a British citizen. Yes, you read that correctly.
Under British nationality law, a child born in any of the British Overseas Territories (BOT) is a British citizen at birth if at least one parent is deemed......
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LONDON, UK — Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick is facing mounting criticism after a week of incendiary statements and controversial public appearances. After defending a man accused of burning the Quran in Southwark Crown Court, Jenrick is now under fire for comments made during a visit to Handsworth, Birmingham, where he lamented that he “didn’t see another white face” during a 90-minute walkabout. The remark, caught on leaked audio, has been branded by many as racially insensitive, divisive, and dangerously aligned with far-right rhetoric.
Robert Jenrick called Handsworth “as close as I’ve come to a slum.” He......
By Tracy Ann Dunkley
Sir Lenny Henry has ignited fierce debate with his call for the UK to pay £18 trillion in reparations to Black Britons and Caribbean nations for the enduring legacy of slavery—a figure that includes £12 trillion in direct compensation for Black British citizens alone. In his new book The Big Payback, co-authored with Marcus Ryder, Henry argues that the systemic racism, economic disparity, and overrepresentation of Black people in prisons are direct consequences of the transatlantic slave trade. His demand is not just financial—it’s moral, historical, and deeply personal. “We personally deserve money for the effects of slavery,”......
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