This week, an anti-migrant activist’s attack on a dinghy with a rescuer still on board took hostility out onto the water, Piddington’s symbolic vote began spreading to other villages near military sites, and a string of stories were undercut by the facts in their own copy. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn’t, and what the sector can do with it.

This week, a single Oxfordshire village's symbolic vote to “leave the UK” became a national story about who bears the cost of asylum dispersal, a joint Guardian investigation traced how organised anti-migrant vigilante activity has spread across the country, and new figures on the one in, one out deal raised fresh questions about its cost and its human impact. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.

This week’s migration media coverage was shaped by three stories: the masked blockade of Dover and the violence that followed in Portsmouth, an anonymous “1% of claims are genuine” briefing that ran on Monday and was contradicted by two data sets on Thursday, and the deepening rows over former military bases earmarked as accommodation. Below we look at what the coverage revealed and what it left out, followed by the week’s secondary stories, what to watch next week, and practical takeaways for sector organisations.