After yesterday’s landmark decision on the Bell Hotel in Epping, the next question must be: where do we go from here?

What is essential to understand is that yesterday’s High Court judgement was what might be called an ‘Al Capone reckoning’. One ultimate actor, the state, and by extension the government, has been humbled on a mere technicality. The Essex hotel was deemed in breach of contract for using its rooms to accommodate refugees, rather than paying guests. The state was not brought to heel on its ethically unsound and socially corrosive laws on immigration and re-settlement.

That the Home Office sought to block Epping Forest council’s application for an injunction is important. Campaigners and the public will still face an elite establishment – especially, despite yesterday’s judg

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