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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Anywhere But Here at St Margaret's House
LOCATION:Author Talk: Anywhere But Here at St Margaret's House\, E2 9PL
DESCRIPTION:As part of Refugee Week\, join us for a talk by Nicola Kelly on the flaws of Britain's asylum system. 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? Nicola’s book\, 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...
URL:https://onlyhere.app/whats-on/author-talk-anywhere-but-here-at-st-margarets-house-2026-06-17
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