Immigration
The small Dutch town that said no to more asylum seekers
A political crisis is unfolding in the small Dutch town of Maassluis, a former fishing village which sits between Rotterdam’s…
Will the Supreme Court allow a ‘creed’ to kill America?
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s tour to tout his new children’s book about the Declaration of Independence should have been…
Immigration control has been the bright spot of Trump’s second term
Parts of the MAGA movement are unhappy with President Trump’s migration strategy. The administration has softened its policy on deportations…
It’s time to uncancel Enoch Powell
Despite a career of nearly half a century in public life, Enoch Powell is generally remembered for one utterance only:…
Stopping the boats shouldn’t require magical thinking
The BBC’s tracking-down of Kardo Ranya as a people-smuggling mastermind is a triumph of investigative journalism. But anyone who thinks…
France is throwing a tantrum at Trump
France is intensifying its counter-offensive against what it calls misinformation. Earlier this month, Paris prosecutors confirmed they have opened a…
Why has Trump turned on India?
President Donald Trump, not someone to let a good insult go to waste, has caused outrage in India after sharing…
What is the supply side of Britain and Europe’s decline?
In his new book Why Populists Are Winning: and How to Beat Them, British MP Liam Byrne argues that it’s…
Trump’s presence won’t sway the Supreme Court
For the first time in memory – and perhaps in history – an American president has attended a Supreme Court…
Another interview goes awry…
Twenty minutes into what seemed a routine softball literary interview for Bloomberg TV in London last month, the conversation took…
Did Billie Eilish get me deported?
For someone who believes that “no one is illegal on stolen land,” it’s a surprise that Billie Eilish’s legal team…
Who doesn’t want a better life?
Every couple of years a columnist-cum-novelist will inevitably stoop to shameless self-promotion. In my defence, at least the novel released…
Tom Homan is Minnesota’s good cop
In announcing an end to the ICE surge in Minnesota, Tom Homan has become for Democrats an unlikely good cop…
Teachers are bringing ICE into the classroom
A wave of school protests sweeping the US in response to the fatal shooting of two anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota…
Brits are being kept in the dark about asylum crime
As long as Britain’s official orthodoxy remains that diversity is its “strength,” will the authorities ever be straight with the public…
There should be no ‘sanctuary’ from ICE
After three hours of parsing American case law, for once I share Donald Trump’s exasperation. See, many a naif, including…
The question the FBI must answer in Minnesota ICE shooting
For the third time in a week, Minnesota is making national headlines, and for all the wrong reasons. In a…
What’s the matter with Minnesota?
Just when you thought Minnesota had hit rock bottom, the state achieves a new level of chaos. Once again it…
Immigration is foreign policy now
Invade the world, invite the world. That pithy phrase was invented in the 2000s by Steve Sailer, the right-wing writer,…
Portrait of the week: Farm tax backdown, trail hunting crackdown and anti-misogyny courses for 11-year-olds
Home The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs announced plans to criminalise trail hunting ‘amid concerns it is being…
The Somali fraud scandal is a turning point
I suspect that Somalis around the country – especially, but not exclusively, in Minneapolis – wish about now that they…
Will bromance bloom between Trump and Jordan Bardella?
Life has never been so good for Jordan Bardella, the 30-year-old president of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally. A recent…
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…
The banality of Hélène von Bismarck’s view of Britain is astounding
Philip Hensher 13 June 2026 9:00 am
The passionate EU supporter seems to scold Britain for taking a contrary path while barely acknowledging the rights and freedoms the British have long taken for granted