Immigration
Who exactly can wear a face covering?
I’m trying to work out what the new rules are in this country. I think I’m getting there, though any…
How to defeat Reform on immigration
It’s now 24 years since I started writing about the urgent need to reform or quit the asylum provisions of…
Did demographics decide the Swedish election?
After four years in office, Sweden’s right-wing government appears to have lost its parliamentary majority in Sunday’s election. The count…
When will the Ceuta disaster end?
How many of the migrants who crossed from Morocco to Ceuta at the end of July remain in the city?…
Can Britain learn from Sweden’s immigration crackdown?
There is a decisive shift occurring in European politics. It’s happening across nations – and parties. It lies behind the…
Of course we need a crackdown on H-1B visas
The Trump administration has proposed a fee of more than $100,000 for most H-1B visas. The usual suspects have come out with…
Middle England is finally waking up to the migrant crisis
I don’t know how familiar readers are with the term ‘accelerationism’. It is generally used to describe a tendency on…
Why Nigel Farage’s ‘Australia-style’ border policy is doomed to fail
When I served as Australia’s High Commissioner in London, I was naturally flattered by how often British politicians and officials…
Pedro Sánchez is stubbornly clinging on to power
With Spain still reeling from the extraordinary scenes in Ceuta, the country’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has decamped to…
We should call the Ceuta border breach an invasion
Spain was invaded yesterday. There is no other way to put it. Close to 50,000 foreigners, mostly men, swarmed into…
It’s time the Tory party got properly nasty again
In the 2024 American and British national elections, it was no mystery why the incumbents lost. Both the Democratic and…
The Supreme Court is not in Trump’s thrall
The latest Supreme Court term, which ended on Tuesday, surely must have been a deep disappointment for those who argue…
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…
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