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podcasts. Hello, this is Hugo Rifkin and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day

and the stuff that's even more important than politics, too.

From trouble at the home office as councils try to block asylum hotels to why the super rich are leaving Britain,

while also sparing a thought for the best songs for your funeral.

And joining me are two of the finest minds from The Times and the Sunday Times. And speaking of the best, Alice Thompson, hello Alice Thompson. Hi. Good to have you with us. And our very own Lord of All hopefulness, Robert. Hello. You can have the hymns, it. Yeah, you can have the hymns.

I like that hymn. Anyway, if you're both abide with me for now, we'll crack on and cover some of these stories with perhaps fewer hymn-based puns. Look, we've got a lot to cover, so let's move fast. I want to start with this big issue of the migrant hotels. It's the front of every paper today. The High Court ruled yesterday that asylum seekers should be removed from the Bell Inn in Epping

after a challenge from the council on planning grounds.

Other councils announced that they planned similar action on hotels in their areas, unsurprisingly,

prompting the obvious question, where will asylum seekers go now?

Times Radio Breakfast asked the security minister Dan

Jarvis, just that. He did not have an alternative to hand. Of course, we're looking at a range of

different contingency options following from a legal ruling that took place yesterday. And we'll look

closely at what we're able to do. But as I say, the bigger picture challenge that

we're dealing with. But could you give some examples of where that might be? Might it be blocks of

flats, university accommodation, army bases? Well, I would gently point out that there's been a single

specific legal ruling that took place yesterday. Whereas Richard Tice from Reform did have a few

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