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1. The asylum appeal backlog has risen to 87,450 cases, according to the latest quarterly tribunal statistics. Appeals lodged actually fell, but with fewer than 7,000 decided per quarter, the queue keeps growing. Waiting times are now around three years.
Wilton Park just published its new report "Building a new counter-extremism and democratic resilience approach for today and the future", which seems extremely relevant in the current moment
portal.wiltonpark.org.uk/public/resou...
A lot of this stuff could have been avoided if more mainstream/influential liberal institutions had simply told these people to Fuck Off much sooner