"The IFS found that the Home Office had told parliament at the start of each year it needed an average £110m to cover the UK’s asylum, border, visa and passport operations. However, it ended up spending vastly more: an average of £2.6bn a year." theguardian.com/politics/artic…

A year ago the Brook House inquiry concluded that there was a "toxic culture" at the IRC with "credible evidence" of breaches of human rights law. Now assaults at the site are up, use of force has doubled and staff are supplying drugs to detainees. theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

A reminder that a Home Office civil servant reportedly collapsed after a "fractious" meeting with Priti Patel. That's how intimidating she was to work with.

The real choice on immigration is between a chaotic, punitive system based on political dishonesty, and a well-managed one that takes advantage of our good fortune as a place that can draw people from around the world - worth reading Jonathan Portes⁩ argument theguardian.com/books/article/…

Rough-sleeping doubled while Zahawi's government was in power. Can only assume that this tweet is referring to the fact that it is now spilling into the lives and landscapes of the super-rich, making it harder for them all to pretend it isn't a problem

A pregnant woman and six children are among those who died in the Channel today.

To provide no safe routes is to contribute to these tragic deaths. Britain, the EU, we are all culpable. And for what? People move, they always have done #NonadCentury

The media told me a lot about the multi-millionaires who tragically lost their lives in the yacht sinking, just as I learnt plenty about the billionaires who lost their lives in the titanic sub I will never know anything about the migrants who lost their lives in the channel

The dark heart of this catastrophe lies in this simple, depressing narrative: the state stepped back, corporate greed stepped in and innocent people died. Bit by me for The Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Priti Patel has been knocked out of the leadership race. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Honestly HOW has Robert Jenrick won the first round of the Tory leadership race, on the same day that the Grenfell report is published, when he showed nothing but utter contempt for those caught up in the #buildingsafetycrisis during his years as Secretary of State for Housing?!

Brazilian investigative journalist Juliana Dal Piva's reporting put her on a collision course with supporters of Brazil’s then-President Jair Bolsonaro. Dal Piva speaks about the personal & professional ramifications. From ARTICLE 19 & Nicola Kelly. gijn.org/stories/silenc…

I've joined the Blue place if anyone wants to meet me there. My username was taken so I'm nicolakellywrites. It'd be great to connect - follow or message me at the link below. bsky.app/profile/nicola…

Home Office has announced it will no longer use RAF Scampton to house asylum seekers. No asylum seekers have ever been housed there and it has cost £60m of taxpayers' money. Labour ministers have concluded it doesn't offer value for money despite the huge cost already incurred:

Let’s be clear, there is no plan of the German Government to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. The discussion is about processing asylum applications in third countries under international humanitarian law and with support of the United Nations.

"The government wants to stop refugees moving through Morocco and Spain and Italy and France. It is too late to be talking about these countries. Start in Syria, Yemen, Iran and Iraq and Afghanistan and Sudan and Eritrea, where the problems originate." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…