John Grayson is an independent researcher and adult educator. He is an activist and campaigner with SYMAAG (South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group). He writes regularly for openDemocracy and for the Institute of Race Relations news service www.irr.org.uk
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Published in: Shine A LightFive lessons Britain must learn from the botched privatisation of asylum housing
A Parliamentary watchdog reports on the dangerous consequences of an ill-conceived, badly planned and poorly...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow to use housing to hurt people: Britain's hostile environment for asylum seekers
The hidden injuries of asylum housing — inflicted by G4S.
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Published in: Shine A LightUK watchdog takes another bite out of failing outsourcer G4S
Commercial outsourcers fail and fail again. Privatisation hurtles on. The Public Accounts Committee has been...
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Published in: Shine A LightG4S owes thousands of pounds on energy bills
It's Britain's leading meter-reader. But in the homes it provides for asylum seekers, outsourcing giant G4S leaves...
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Published in: Shine A LightLiving with rats. Landlord G4S
While a company executive assured the UK Parliament there was nothing to worry about, a child in a G4S house counted rats.
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Published in: Shine A LightWelcome to Britain: 'Go Home or Face Arrest'
For decades racists have yelled "Go Home" at minority ethnic and Black people. Now the government is doing it in a...