Home Office report says refugees being held in filthy and degrading conditions
Dr Stella Perrott digs into a report by the Home Office about the dreadful state of accommodation for asylum seekers
Read moreDetailsDr Stella Perrott digs into a report by the Home Office about the dreadful state of accommodation for asylum seekers
Read moreDetailsWe need a new philosophy of poverty and wealth that incorporates an understanding of what constitutes a ‘good life’ and...
Read moreDetailsWith tough on crime Trump gone, and Biden's justice reform on the agenda, might Priti Patel temper her focus on...
Read moreDetailsImmigration and asylum in 2020 was dominated by three themes – Brexit, the new immigration criteria and rules, and the...
Read moreDetailsStella Perrott assesses what we already know from previous inquiries into serious incidents, and what these lessons should be telling...
Read moreDetailsChanges to the asylum system will make it harder for those fleeing war to come to this country
Read moreDetailsDr Stella Perrott talks to some of the "do-gooders", whom the home secretary has decided a worthy target for her...
Read moreDetailsDr Stella Perrott discusses the new report, which shows that the overwhelming majority of sexual assault perpetrators escape consequences
Read moreDetailsFollowing recent criticisms of Home Office refugee policies,, a number of people have written to their MPs expressing concerns
Read moreDetailsIf the home secretary wishes to mend the broken asylum system, she might start with the systems and processes directly...
Read moreDetailsThe government proposes to extend the use of electronic monitoring of young offenders
Read moreDetailsThe government wrote to voluntary sector organisations on 18 September to say it is restarting evictions of asylum seekers in...
Read moreDetailsHome Office proposals for new stop and search powers will increase discrimination unless we first eradicate the biased application of...
Read moreDetailsIt estimates that between 240,000 and 320,000 people come into contact with immigration services every year, but is unable to...
Read moreDetailsThe Brexit clock is ticking and the Home Office and Priti Patel are in a hurry to return asylum seekers...
Read moreDetailsIn their book, published in 2013, The Blunders of Our Governments, Ivor Crew and Anthony King explore 12 examples of...
Read moreDetailsO’Mahoney is responsible for “leading the UK’s response for tackling illegal attempts to reach the UK”
Read moreDetailsLong-covid sufferers and families of the deceased call on the government to learn from their experience and prevent future debility...
Read moreDetailsA hostile environment for ‘foreigners’ is an equally hostile environment for its own citizens, many of whom continue to feel...
Read moreDetailsThe government’s “slow, inconsistent and negligent approach” to social care during the pandemic was today heavily criticised by the commons...
Read moreDetailsStella Perrott explores the continuum between poorly paid employment and exploitative or forced labour and how race and gender underpin...
Read moreDetailsThe government’s management of coronavirus is an example of where a superforecaster would insist on not just one review at...
Read moreDetailsMichael Gove's "privilege of public service" civil reform speech, a glimpse into the Johnson-Gove-Cummings triumvirate?
Read moreDetailsWhat are the police for?
Read moreDetailsThe impact of coronavirus on people in the UK has been very uneven
Read moreDetailsDr Stella Perrott considers the characteristics of a society that can form a productive relationship with a female leader
Read moreDetailsStella Perrott considers the government’s capacity to deliver a managed Brexit over the coming weeks in the light of the...
Read moreDetailsMuch media attention has focused on the government’s response to concerns raised in 2017 in the Exercise Cygnus report
Read moreDetailsStella Perrott considers the plight of refugees in the coronavirus outbreak and the need for an internationally agreed approach to...
Read moreDetailsFifteen senior peers have written a letter to the Financial Times calling for a full public inquiry into the UK’s...
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