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• Immigration policy Mahmood-style: no one is safe

  In an earlier blog,[1] I explained the first steps in the UK’s new asylum and immigration policy announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood last November.…

• Truth is falsehood — or is it the other way round?

  The Guardian says: The fate of the two-week ceasefire in the Iran conflict looked in peril on Wednesday as both sides gave divergent versions of…

• The new asylum regime: the first steps

  The first steps towards the UK’s new asylum regime have now been taken. The Immigration Rules have been changed so that if you apply for…

• How a poem was composed in a time of war

  It’s 1917, towards the end of the First World War. The poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon has made his Declaration against the war: I am…