Recording of
CLS Sunday Zoom 5 October 2025

• Jacqueline McKenzie Partner at human rights law firm, Leigh Day, and the Head of its Immigration and Asylum Team
• Nadine Finch Honorary Senior Policy Fellow, University of Bristol

 

A Prime Minister who refers to Britain as an “Island of Strangers” and prioritises deportation and tightening immigration controls has made a choice. He has decided to ignore international humanitarian law and appease right wing populism. He has also turned his back on a significant proportion of his own voters.

The UK Government is targeting migrant workers and students. There is a … Read on ...

There have been important political developments in Africa, particularly in Burkina Faso with its President Ibrahim Traore.

Dr. Velva Boles of Alexandria, Louisiana, USA has recently visited the region and will give an update on the situation.

The meeting also received reports on elections in Jamaica and the US naval incursion into the Caribbean.

Dr Boles is a medical doctor with a PhD in health sciences. She has numerous blog pages; hosts a Blog Radio talk show, “Getting It Right With Dr. Boles” where a myriad of health issues are presented and discussed; contributes to professional journals, and has published … Read on ...

Presentation given by Claire Pickard-Cambridge at the Bristol Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies in July 2025

The work I am going to discuss today was done by Bristol-based former academic historian Julia Bush and myself. We are members of Bristol Quaker Meeting, which is part of a worldwide organisation formally titled the Religious Society of Friends. This Society originated in 17th century Britain, towards the end of the English Civil War, when George Fox drew together a band of preachers and inspired thousands of people to uproot the religious and political authority of the established Church.

The wider … Read on ...