The Spectator Discovers Lawyers Exploit Loopholes, Files Urgent Report

Spectator Australia · David Shipley · Thursday 16 April 2026

The Spectator Discovers Lawyers Exploit Loopholes, Files Urgent Report

The Spectator Australia runs a UK story about law firms coaching asylum seekers on sexuality-based claims, treating a British domestic policy debate as content for Australian outrage.

The Spectator Australia running a story about British asylum law is like a bloke in Wagga reading the Cheltenham form guide — technically literate, practically useless, and entirely designed to make you angry about a race you can't bet on. David Shipley's discovered that lawyers exploit loopholes, which is roughly as newsworthy as discovering that water runs downhill.

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