Nathan Akehurst

Nathan Akehurst is a writer, researcher and campaigner looking at migration, climate change and geopolitics. He is also a civil search and rescue volunteer and currently working on a book tracking a decade of escalating violence at EU borders.

Even shots on British nationals won’t stop UK’s border expansion

It seems that shootings at sea are just par for the course in Starmer’s longstanding strategy to outsource borders

By Nathan Akehurst

/ 5 Nov 2025

Even shots on British nationals won’t stop UK’s border expansion

We saved lives at sea. So why did Italy detain our boat?

We were fined and our boat blocked after we rescued 114 people. It’s a political campaign to make movement illegal

By Nathan Akehurst

/ 28 Oct 2024

We saved lives at sea. So why did Italy detain our boat?

Forget the red-baiting - Haringey shows the power of local people coming together

This week's resignation of Haringey leader Claire Kober shows that Labour councillors can no longer get away with carving up estates and giving them to developers like LendLease, but must embrace more radical housing policies.

By Nathan Akehurst

/ 31 Jan 2018

“Developers can get away with murder” – an interview with Kensington’s Emma Dent Coad

One short week in May exposed the fault lines at the heart of our communities. Three months on from a shock election result, as the Grenfell inquiry opens, Kensington’s new Labour MP talks housing, education, poverty and politics with Nathan Akehurst.

By Nathan Akehurst

/ 26 Sep 2017

The price of love that nearly half of us cannot pay

If you fall in love with an EU citizen, your rights to a family life are at risk from Brexit. But if you fall in love with someone from elsewhere in the world, you've already lost them. It's time to push back.

By Nathan Akehurst

/ 20 Jul 2017

Why should we bother with the centre ground?

Labour needs to remember that a party going to the electorate saying ‘I promise I’ve changed’ risks the electorate simply replying ‘so what?’

By Nathan Akehurst

/ 23 Jul 2015

The Green party is consensus breaking

Forget Labour, the Greens are the only party that will help social movements beyond parliament.

By Nathan Akehurst

/ 6 May 2015