Anywhere But Here - Nicola Kelly - diskuze

*Longlisted for the 2025 Moore Prize for Human Rights'Brilliant and hugely timely.' Caroline Lucas, author of Another England‘Remarkable ... An impressive telling of the story of our times.’ Lyse Doucet'Brings such a human and humane perspective to an issue that is politicised and toxic.’ Guardian___What is it like to arrive on our shores with nothing and be pushed to the margins of society?Who stands to gain from an asylum system that is intentionally hostile? Anywhere But Here is a powerful exposé of Britain’s broken asylum system and how it fails us all.  Each year tens of thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Channel in small boats hoping to find safety in Britain. Yet the very system designed to protect them has all but collapsed.  With unique and unparalleled access, award-winning journalist and former Home Office insider Nicola Kelly takes us behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time.  We follow the under-resourced coastguard overseeing search and rescue operations in the Channel. The decision-makers hired from McDonald’s and Aldi to conduct ‘life and death’ asylum interviews. The immigration barristers securing last-minute reprieves for deportees who narrowly escaped death. And we step inside the Home Office corridors as ministers and advisors respond to emerging crises and scandals, from Windrush to the Rwanda plan.  At its heart are the stories of war-torn arrivals, lone teenagers and trafficked women
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