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How Britain Turned Asylum Into a Billion-Pound Profit Machine

• via BBC News

How Britain Turned Asylum Into a Billion-Pound Profit Machine

While Children Ate Frozen Food, One Man Became a Billionaire

The Home Office's asylum accommodation contracts, initially valued at £4.5 billion, are now projected to cost £15 billion. Clearsprings Ready Homes founder Graham King has made £187 million in profits, becoming a billionaire, while asylum seekers in his hotels face inadequate food and rationed hygiene products. This isn't just a failure of policy—it's a symptom of Britain's institutional decay.

Military Bases for Asylum Seekers: Britain's Endless Loop of Failed Solutions

• via The Guardian

Military Bases for Asylum Seekers: Britain's Endless Loop of Failed Solutions

Why Labour's Plan to Use Military Sites is Just Déjà Vu

Defence Secretary John Healey's announcement to use military sites for asylum seekers is less a new solution and more a repetition of past failures. With asylum hotel costs at £8 million daily and no clear plan to end their use, the government is recycling failed strategies amid political panic rather than evidence-based planning. This move highlights Britain's institutional decay, where basic governmental functions are outsourced to military resources, reflecting a broader collapse in administrative competence.

The Asylum Delusion: How Britain's Political Class Abandoned Both Refugees and Voters

• via The Economist

The Asylum Delusion: How Britain's Political Class Abandoned Both Refugees and Voters

The Economist's Asylum Proposal

The Economist's proposal to "scrap the asylum system" represents the final capitulation of Western liberalism to its own failures. After decades of mismanaging migration policy, the establishment now proposes to abandon the 1951 Refugee Convention entirely—not to create something genuinely better, but to legitimise what they've already been doing: turning desperate people into political pawns while pretending to care about both human rights and border control.