How media amplification shapes Britain’s view of asylum — and why ‘hotels’ keep eclipsing everything else
Published: 27 August 2025
27th August 2025: The row over “asylum seekers in hotels” looks like a story about numbers. In reality, it’s a story about how our information ecosystem burdens the most vulnerable with policy failure.
The most powerful force in the UK’s approach to asylum right now isn’t a new statute or a court ruling. It’s amplification: the way a handful of cues – ‘cost’, ‘crisis’, ‘control’ – are ricocheting between broadcast, print and on-line platforms, hardening into the ‘common sense’ of the week.
First published: 27 August 2025
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