How can one institution be so universally criticised, not just by the immigrants and citizens who at one point or another must use its services, but by all those who encounter it, whether lawyers, judges, activists, journalists, or even those who work there. Daniel Trilling, a journalist who has been covering immigration for a decade, spent six months investigating for The Guardian the organisational culture and history of the Home Office to answer this simple question: wtf is going on there? He talked to me about what he found. Sources & further reading? Cruel, paranoid, failing: inside the Home Office, Daniel Trilling for The Guardian, 13 May 2021Also on Borderline:? The post-Brexit immigration scheme ends in a month. Its flaws could show up in a decade. 3 June 2021? Yes, Europeans are being turned away at UK borders. Not all Europeans though. 28 May 2021? How being nasty to immigrants became law, with Colin Yeo. 13 July 2020? "We have a deeply unfeminist immigration system,"with Zoe Gardner. 23 March 2021? When your passport locks you in, with Selda Shamloo. 16 March 2021

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