| Recent attacks carried out against asylum seekers in Teesside and Cardiff after they were singled out by red doors and coloured wristbands have shocked many. But the human rights organisation Amnesty has today warned that the dangerous rhetoric used by the government could be encouraging such attacks.
Writing for politics.co.uk, Amnesty UK's refugee and migrant rights programme director, Steve Symonds, suggests that the hostile environment created by cuts to legal protection for migrants, together with the use of terms like "swarm" when talking about refugees has led to racists feeling they could act with "impunity".
And so, Symonds would no doubt have been disappointed by David Cameron referring to the people in the Calais and Dunkirk refugee camps as a "bunch of migrants", during today's PMQs. Our verdict of the weekly encounter finds that the prime minister may have won on the trivial stuff today but he also revealed something of his true character.
Elsewhere, we have a piece which suggests that equality for trans people must not come at the expense of women's rights. This follows the findings of a report by the women and equalities select committee caused a row between some feminists and trans people.
And, our final article reveals how after the Lobbying Act and trade union bill, the government is now trying to silence another form of non-parliamentary democracy.
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