The Windrush Betrayal, Exposing the Hostile Environment</a>. She won the&nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Foot&nbsp;award, Cudlipp award, an Amnesty award, journalist of the year British journalism awards and London press club print journalist of the year for Windrush investigations. She has also won the Orwell prize, feature and specialist writer of the year. Previously she reported from Delhi, Paris and Moscow</p>" /> Skip to main contentSkip to navigation
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Amelia Gentleman

Amelia Gentleman is a reporter and author of The Windrush Betrayal, Exposing the Hostile Environment. She won the Paul Foot award, Cudlipp award, an Amnesty award, journalist of the year British journalism awards and London press club print journalist of the year for Windrush investigations. She has also won the Orwell prize, feature and specialist writer of the year. Previously she reported from Delhi, Paris and Moscow

April 2025

  • Winston Jones

    ‘I didn’t trust the system’: lasting trauma of Windrush victim barred from UK for 10 years

    Winston Jones, who for a decade was unable to return home from Jamaica, almost didn’t apply for compensation, fearing it was a trap
  • Seema Malhotra sits surrounded by other people taking part in the session

    Ministers try to encourage Windrush compensation claims with £1.5m fund

    Government acknowledges that many victims have felt too nervous to engage with officials from Home Office
  • Woman and sign saying Justice for Wiindrush

    Home Office spent £22,000 on failed attempt to stop Windrush report release

    Hard-hitting internal investigation found roots of scandal lay in racist immigration legislation

January 2025

  • The Savile Club building on Brook Street in London.

    Members of London’s Savile Club vote against letting women join

    About 53% of members at emergency meeting reject plan to allow women to join 157-year-old institution

October 2024

  • Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah in a pale brown suit posing for a photograph outdoors

    Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah’s mother to receive settlement over death linked to air pollution

  • Yvette Cooper, with director Lisa Anderson, during a visit to the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, London on Thursday.

    Yvette Cooper reinstates Home Office unit for post-Windrush culture change

  • Campaigners march behind a Mermaids UK banner at the London Trans+ Pride march in 2022.

    Trans children’s charity told to rewrite guidance on puberty blockers

  • Flyfishers’ Club building in London

    ‘This is great news’: Flyfishers’ Club members vote to allow women

  • UK immigration laws ‘cannot be uncoupled from racism’, say minority ethnic MPs

  • Head of civil service Simon Case rejoins Garrick Club six months after quitting it

September 2024

  • ‘Too much of a hot potato’ … Barbara Walker during preparations for her forthcoming solo show at the Whitworth in Manchester.

    ‘I’m pointing a finger’: Barbara Walker on her paintings about the Windrush scandal and her son’s victimisation

  • The Windrush scandal saw thousands of people who were legally resident in Britain wrongly classified as immigration offenders.

    Home Office forced to release critical report on origins of Windrush scandal

  • Commuters on London Bridge make their way into offices during the morning rush hour.

    Business live
    Global economy ‘turning a corner,’ says OECD; Boeing workers ‘not interested’ in 30% pay rise – as it happened

  • Graphic showing a mother and child hugging while a money falls out of a wallet to pay for school clothes.

    ‘I have £7 in my bank account’: how the two-child benefit cap changed Britain

  • Campaigners tie baby slings to statues in call for better UK paternity leave

  • Two more men-only clubs in UK to ask members if women should join

  • Imagine your friend survives a catastrophic accident. What do you do? This is what I learned

    Amelia Gentleman

  • Wrongly denied Windrush payments causing ‘further harm and injustice’

  • ‘People tend to think these battles have been won’: Next equal pay claimant on fight for recognition

August 2024

  • A sea of faces interspersed with banners saying: 'No to racist intimidation', 'Asylum is a human right', 'Migration is not a crime' and 'No one is illegal'

    UK must curb rise in racist hate speech by politicians and public figures, UN says

    Review also highlights racial profiling in police practices, and failure to address legacies of colonialism and slavery
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