Journalist. 'Anywhere But Here', my book on the small boats crisis, is out now.
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My book, 'Anywhere But Here', is finished! It will take you inside the Home Office and behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time.
You can pre-order from
Waterstones: bit.ly/4gBxHTV
Foyles: tinyurl.com/3n7p3w3h
Amazon: amzn.to/3XuF7Q8
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Really looking forward to reading this by @nicolakelly Very topical and love how the chapters have been named according to the journey taken by hundreds of thousands of people. I have a feeling this will be a good read!
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I've just finished reading this remarkable book. Thank you for your diligence in writing it.
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👀 Spotted at the @hayfestival bookshop - @NicolaKelly with a copy of her book #AnywhereButHere: Stories of the Search for Belonging in Modern Britain
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
From an award-winning journalist comes the hugely timely story of Britain’s broken asylum system and the search for belonging in Britain today.
#AnywhereButHere by @NicolaKelly - out in paperback today!
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Thank you to @Dauntbooks Hampstead for hosting authors @NicolaKelly & Robert Winder last week, for an event on Britain's broken aslyum system.
📖#AnywhereButHere: Stories of the Search for Belonging in Modern Britain
📖Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain
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We pleased to announce a very important event with @NicolaKelly discussing 'Anywhere But Here' with @doctor_oxford on Tuesday 14th April @blackwellbooks
Tickets for this special talk cost £6 and can be purchased here eventbrite.co.uk/e/197987862…
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Have just finished this amazing book, a Christmas gift from a friend.
Thank you Nicola 👏
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🎧: In the final podcast of the year, @ellen_halliday and @paperdispatch look back at their favourite episodes from 2025. During a dark year, Prospect has been collecting glimmers of hope.
prospectmagazine.co.uk/podca…
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🔴Nigel Farage-Backed ‘Raise the Colours’ Campaign Pivots to Racially Abusing Migrants and Harassing Aid Workers on French Beaches
Far-right activists were seen stabbing dinghies and releasing dogs to intimidate migrants and aid workers
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/r…
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Farage said 'Raise the Colours' was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”. Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity"
Now they've pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating aid workers on the beaches of France
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/r…
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The politics of #migration have driven some of the most consequential changes in Britain’s recent history. Colin Yeo, author of #WelcomeToBritain & @NicolaKelly, author of #AnywhereButHere, discuss Britain’s broken asylum system on the #OnPolitics podcast: bit.ly/48SICpq
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Violent borders:
@NicolaKelly on the impact of attempts to 'secure' the British-French maritime boundary
@BylineTimes
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/09/k…
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🔴Keir Starmer’s Government Is Funding ‘Violence and Death’ on the French Border, Say Human Rights Groups
Billions are being spent on anti-migrant measures which campaigners warn are contributing to dozens of deaths of people seeking to come to the UK
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/09/k…
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Pink Ladies, supuestamente un movimiento de madres británicas preocupadas por la inmigración... pero entonces llega @NicolaKelly, escarba un poco...y detrás de las pink ladies está la financiación de los tories, del partido de Farage y vínculos con grupos neonazis.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t…
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A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant group led by 'ordinary' women, backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t…
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🔴Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Seeker Military ‘Warehousing’ Plans Delayed Amid Opposition by Labour MPs
Home Office sources say local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use army barracks to house asylum seekers amid rising tensions
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/s…
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Home Office sources tell @nicolakelly that some Labour MPs are resisting plans to house asylum seekers in military bases amid rising local tensions.
Sources say there are also tensions between the Home Office and the Ministry of Defence over the plans
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/s…
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🔴David Lammy’s Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk ‘Increasing Miscarriages of Justice’
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice @NicolaKelly reports
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d…
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🔴Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of ‘Letting the Country Down’ With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The Labour peer and campaigner for child refugees tells Byline Times Mahmood's plans are “bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government”
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a…
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells Byline Times that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a…