Immigration
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…
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…
