Shabana Mahmood’s warning to liberals
The Home Secretary believes she is the asylum system’s last chance
ByAsylum Seekers
The truth about the small-boats crisis
What Nigel Farage won’t tell you
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Letter of the week: Into the darkness
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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The age of deportation
The haven that Britain once was is being dismantled. In its place a fortress rises.
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
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The struggle over Epping’s asylum hotel is not over
There were outraged protests outside the Bell Hotel as the ruling to evict its asylum seekers was overturned.
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What the Bell Hotel closure reveals about the asylum housing stalemate
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
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How anti-migrant politics came for Deliveroo
Clashes with couriers outside an asylum hotel protest expose a dilemma – for government and protesters alike.
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The public is right to care about small boat crossings
The halving of immigration this week can’t change the reality of the asylum system.
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Tragedy in the Channel shows the flaws of the Rwanda plan
The new policy will not put off migrants who are already prepared to risk their lives to reach the UK.
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The Church is being villainised over the Clapham chemical attack
Religious figures have been drawn into debates over false asylum claims – but it is the process that is flawed.
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The paranoid battle for RAF Scampton
A proposed asylum seeker camp has unleashed radical politics in deep England.
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Pledge tracker: Rishi Sunak misses key targets
As the year draws to a close, it is clear that Sunak cannot claim to have met the majority of…
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Sunak’s problems go much deeper than the Rwanda bill
Conservative infighting risks obscuring any policy successes the Prime Minister enjoys.
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Conservative MPs have given up on the next election
The Tory Party’s open warfare over the Rwanda plan shows Rishi Sunak’s waning authority.
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All aboard the Bibby Stockholm
The barge symbolises Britain’s rotten asylum stalemate – the discovery of Legionella bacteria in its water system only proves this.
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Children’s commissioner demands data on child refugees from Suella Braverman
Rachel de Souza is calling for Home Office information on children arriving on small boats, and what happens to them…
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Suella Braverman has become the Conservatives’ biggest liability
The active glee that the Home Secretary takes in other people’s misery has shattered Rishi Sunak’s pragmatic facade.
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Inside Homes for Ukraine: sex bargains, child neglect and domestic servitude
An exclusive investigation by the New Statesman reveals the dark side of Britain’s refugee scheme, which failed to safeguard some…
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Gary Lineker played into the hands of the BBC’s right-wing enemies
Those who want to defund a vital national institution have emerged stronger from this saga.
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