Borders and frontiers
- Migrant deaths have climbed sharply in 2026. This includes an 111% increase in deaths along the Central Mediterranean route. UN News
- The EU plans to boost funding for Morocco’s migration management after the crisis at the Ceuta crossing. Euronews
- Cleared in Greek border case, Austrian activist now sues EU data chief over Europol record. EUObserver
- Migrants Rights Network are holding the UK Home Office to account via subject access requests. Migrants Rights Network
- How Europe’s expanding border machinery unites reactionaries and reproduces colonialism. Reactionary International
- The UK promised new digital immigration checks – but digital systems already exist, and they’re impacting migrants’ rights. Border Criminologies
Coercion and control
- Guilty by design: The enshittification of British justice. Netpol
- Britain’s free speech problem: How growing restrictions are stifling free speech online and offline. Big Brother Watch
Discrimination and racism
- Leader of group behind flag campaign in England charged with 14 offences. The Guardian
- UK police trained officers in states flagged over human rights. Declassified UK
Peace and war
- Trump’s Venezuela: Why seek regime change if you can get regime compliance? OpenDemocracy
Resistance and solidarity
- ‘Silence is not neutrality’: Organising against the far right in Saxony-Anhalt. OpenDemocracy
Secrecy and transparency
- Former UK prime minister Tony Blair used Mandelson to court Bashar al-Assad, ousted Syrian dictator. Declassified UK
- Nuclear bomb test veterans were victims of one of ‘greatest scandals in Britain’, says ex-defence minister. The Guardian
Snooping and surveillance
- Germany: Federal Police: Coalition OKs AI real-time tracking & state trojans. Heise.
- Irish regulators clash over legal terms in bill on police use of biometric recognition. Biometric Update.
- Morocco Deploys First AI-Powered Police Patrol Vehicles in Rabat. We Are Tech.
- The face as political infrastructure. Media@LSE.
- Germany massively expands federal police powers. DW.
- Italy’s Own Privacy Watchdog Says Its New Police Facial Recognition Decree Violates EU AI Act. Tech Times.
- UK: MI5 to pay damages for illegal surveillance of journalist’s phone. BBC News.
- Scotland’s police inspector backs faster rollout of facial recognition, AI. Biometric Update.