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Asylum Policy

How Britain Turned Asylum Into a Billion-Pound Profit Machine

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.

· via BBC News

Asylum Policy

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

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.

· via The Economist