Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the week's news

Looks like the Bell Hotel ruling has left the Home Office in a bit of a pickle. Ministers have got three weeks to find alternative accommodation for 32,000 asylum seekers, but in the midst of an acute housing shortage, where are they going to put them?

Now this might seem a totally mad idea, and I'm sure there's good reason why nobody has suggested it before. But how about hiring some big ships for them to live on? I heard there was this one down in Portland, the Bibby Stockholm or something, that has been lying idle. Got to be worth a try.

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