Immigration
Will Mahmood’s asylum reforms force Ireland’s hand?
Labour’s plans to overhaul Britain’s overstretched asylum system have forced the Irish government to do the same. As the Northern…
Portrait of the week: an immigration overhaul, Budget chaos and doctors’ strikes
Home Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, proposed that refugees would only be granted a temporary right to stay and would…
How many illegal migrants does Britain return?
Condemned leaders Former Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, for using lethal force…
Legal immigration is an absolute nightmare
A personal note this week, as 15 October 2025 marked an occasion of sorts: when my husband’s and my Portuguese…
Europe is giving up on free movement
Ten years ago on 31 August 2015, Angela Merkel told the German press what she was going to do about…
The lies of the land
You can gauge the fragility of an ideology by the blind fury with which it reacts to questioning. So it…
Haircuts are a human right!
During the immigration deluge in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it seems one Afghan and one Indian national…
Make Trump Britain’s prime minister
When I was a young man, the claim that Britain was in danger of becoming the 51st state was a…
How to handle the Wagner problem
There are deep ructions across Europe, as in Britain. All come down to the same thing. The societies in question…
Is this the man who can defeat France’s Islamists?
When France played Algeria in their national stadium, the Stade de France, in 2001, the French player Thierry Henry said…
The left-wing case for controlled immigration
Controlled immigration was once a left-wing cause. It was a basic tenet of trade unionism – not to mention economics…
How governments gaslight
The posters now plastered around German public swimming pools are so hilarious that you may have seen them already. Keeping…
Has deporting illegals become illegal?
The circus around Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia – whose full name the New York Times likes to trot out as…
The death of public discourse
It is said that since Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, it is once again possible to use the…
Reform and the problem with the Overton window
In the space of about one month a further 9 per cent of the electorate has decided that the views…
How English are you really?
I’ve struggled to ascertain from afar the true nature of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland. Progressive media love to quote its…
Chambers of horrors: The radical barristers who really lay down the law in Britain
The facade of Garden Court Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn Fields is reassuringly traditional. The barristers who work there occupy buildings…
Sack the judges
The population of the United Kingdom was increased this week by the arrival of two Albanian lesbians who have been…
Why were the Abedis here in the first place?
In recent days parliament has been recalled on a Saturday to debate the renationalisation of the British steel industry. Then,…
A novel in disguise: Theory & Practice, by Michelle de Kretser, reviewed
De Kretser’s witty, innovative take on the immigrant’s predicament tries ingeniously to persuade us that we are not reading fiction but documentary truth
Why Nigel should listen to Rupert
I was thinking lately of Robert Kilroy-Silk. For younger readers, and people who were never students or unemployed, a quick…
It’s time to scrap the asylum system
Whatever you think of the blizzard of executive orders howling from the White House, at least the new President doesn’t…
Immigration’s theatre of the absurd
On the cusp of an almighty row over Trump’s planned mass deportations, let’s look to Europe for light relief. Last…
How to get on the housing ladder
It is always interesting to watch the debates that roil a nation. So far as I can see, the current…
Who are the longest-serving Archbishops of Canterbury?
Arch rivals Justin Welby served longer as Archbishop of Canterbury than any of his four immediate predecessors, but others have…
