Jack Barton

I am a freelance journalist focusing on policing and migrants' rights. I have a background in charities and feature-writing, and won a Modern Slavery Day media award for my reporting on human trafficking in 2018.

Thousands of couples face ‘humiliating’ Home Office sham marriage checks

The government is also facing legal action over its automated system that decides which couples are investigated

By Jack Barton

/ 12 Jul 2023

Thousands of couples face ‘humiliating’ Home Office sham marriage checks

Home Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centres

Exclusive: Detainees worked a million hours on £1 wages in past five years, sparking claims of government exploitation

By Jack Barton

/ 23 Feb 2023

Home Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centres

Revealed: Police may be assessing climate protesters for terrorism

Counter-terror police are being sent intelligence on activists who threaten businesses amid crackdown on protests

By Jack Barton

/ 13 Dec 2022

Revealed: Police may be assessing climate protesters for terrorism

Revealed: Police began monitoring ‘social justice’ activity after BLM protests

Exclusively obtained intelligence briefings show police also classed protests against themselves as ‘anti-fascist’

By Jack Barton

/ 19 Oct 2022

Revealed: Police began monitoring ‘social justice’ activity after BLM protests

Two years on £38 a week: life inside the UK’s trafficking support system

Domestic workers inside the National Referral System at risk of new exploitation as they struggle to make ends meet

By Jack Barton

/ 16 Jun 2022

Two years on £38 a week: life inside the UK’s trafficking support system