Four people in hospital after knife attacks in Edinburgh. An arrest made.
BBC report say man shouted about "protecting the country". Sone signs the attacks near a mosque at petrol station & pizzeria may have had anti-Muslim or anti-migrant/minority motives (tbc)
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there's no assessment in the letter of what impact the scheme has had, or how it's operated. Around 900 people have been transferred in both directions. The @icibi.bsky.social has an ongoing inspection of the process.
At the end of March, it was taking an average of 67 weeks to dispose of an asylum appeal - up from 54 weeks a year before.
40% of appeals were successful in the first three months of 2026 - but when including withdrawals, it increases to 64%.
NEW: The Home Office is ploughing ahead with using AI to conduct asylum seeker age assessments despite knowing it's wildly inaccurate
Its own internal report & our audit of public data find the tech often predicts kids to be adults, & performs worst on the top nationalities arriving on small boats
the amendment means that it also covers people who have been returned to France under the scheme and then return to the UK through a clandestine route other than small boat. Alex Norris has written to the Home Affairs Select Committee setting this out too committees.parliament.uk/publications...
There's been some official parliamentary confirmation that the UK-France deal has been extended to 1 October. An exchange of letters has been published, setting out the extension and also one edit to the agreement assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a2ace...
New tribunal stats out this morning show the asylum appeals backlog continues to grow. At the end of March it was 87,450 cases, which is around 114,000 people - more than double the initial decision backlog. www.gov.uk/government/s...
Included in Chris Philp's Policy Exchange speech today was a rehash of the Illegal Migration Act/Rwanda scheme asylum ban - that was the same policy that brought the entire asylum system to a grinding halt and prevented caseworkers from progressing claims www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A man was seen battering the door of a pizzeria as members of the public run away on Friday night.
1st-tier immigration & asylum tribunal. 1 hearing centre. 15 cases on float list today. Almost none heard. Not adjourned til 2.30-3pm. Asylum seekers. Torture survivors. Privately paying clients & legally aided lawyers who get only £177 (prep + hearing) if case adjourns. Refuse to participate.
