Windrush scandal

Windrush generation ‘moved to tears’ as monument unveiled in London
Basil Watson’s sculpture at Waterloo station celebrates pioneers who arrived in Britain after second world war
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
22, Jun, 2022 @3:13 PM

‘It’s not a monument, it’s a celebration’: Windrush sculpture unveiled in Hackney
Thomas J Price’s Warm Shores was created from composites of 30 residents connected to the Windrush generation, and shows how monuments can represent the communities they stand in
Amah-Rose Abrams
22, Jun, 2022 @3:13 PM

Pupils make it to Windrush event after evacuation from stuck train
Party of 48 pupils and their teachers waited on train for almost three hours en route to Royal Festival Hall
Matthew Weaver
22, Jun, 2022 @2:42 PM

Windrush: only one in four applicants have received compensation
Figure comes four years after people wrongly classified as illegal immigrants were promised redress
Amelia Gentleman
22, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM

Integrate, my mum said, so I did. But Eric Morecambe helped me find my Windrush self | Lenny Henry
Our parents were heroes who wanted us to fit in, but eventually I came to value my own identity, says actor and comedian Lenny Henry
Lenny Henry
22, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM

British history should not be treated as a ‘soft play area’, says David Olusoga
Writer and broadcaster says teaching about the past must not be a way of making people feel good about themselves
Richard Adams Education editor
19, Jun, 2022 @5:22 PM

Stephen Thompson obituary
Screenwriter and novelist who won a Bafta for his BBC drama, Sitting in Limbo, about his brother’s experiences of being threatened with deportation
Ryan Gilbey
12, Jun, 2022 @4:26 PM

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
Donna Ferguson
12, Jun, 2022 @9:20 AM

Floella Benjamin: ‘I’m Miss Optimist. I don’t let the bad things eat me up’
From Windrush child to Play School presenter to baroness, Floella Benjamin reflects on her remarkable life
Tim Jonze
12, Jun, 2022 @7:00 AM

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’
Amelia Gentleman
10, Jun, 2022 @5:00 AM

Racism in UK immigration policy comes as no surprise | Letters
Letters: Paul McGilchrist cites an explicit admission of racism on immigration that has been in the public domain for more than 50 years. Plus letters from David Chan and Alison Simmons
Letters
03, Jun, 2022 @4:41 PM

The Guardian view on Windrush history: ministers are hiding the truth | Editorial
Editorial: There could hardly be a worse time for the government to refuse to share insights from a historian’s report on racist immigration policies
Editorial
30, May, 2022 @5:41 PM
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