Immigration
Passage from India
It is not fashionable to feel sympathy for the men and women who lived and served in the British colonies…
The new Home Affairs Department should be welcomed
The Prime Minister has today unveiled a national security ‘mega-department’, to be called, as guessed by the commentariat, the Department…
How Rome did immigration
Last week it was suggested that the questions asked of London mayor Sadiq Khan had nothing to do with racism,…
A right mess
Conservatism is having a nervous breakdown
Bitter sweet
The French master film-maker Jacques Audiard has never been anywhere near Hollywood plot school. His films contain gathering menace —…
Crossing continents
Could radio, and in particular a weekly soap, have a role to play in the Syrian crisis? You might think,…
Vote for freedom!
‘Out’ campaigners picture leaving the EU as a liberation. It wouldn’t be
Everything in black and white
This is a quite remarkable book. Badly written, devoid of anything even vaguely approaching a methodology, patronising, hideously mistaken on…
A civilisation under siege
It’s bad enough here, but Europe’s migrant folly is suicidal
Will Cameron pull his punches to help the Tories reunite?
If Downing Street’s calculations are correct, next week will see politics begin to return to normal. We’ll all move on…
Driven to extremes
Imagine if Nigel Farage declared that police should be ready to shoot migrants trying to make it from Calais to…
The EU must change
David Cameron’s attempt to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership has served as a powerful reminder of the case for leaving. The…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that if Britain left the European Union, France could stop allowing British officials…
Israel notebook
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Morocco: if I had picked anywhere else on the Mediterranean for a family holiday, at…
Gallows humour
It begins with a sketch. We’re in a prison in 1963 where Harry Wade, the UK’s second most famous hangman,…
High life
Gstaad War and Peace has been in the news lately, so what was it that Leo wrote about all happy…
France’s civil war…
...and the struggle facing Europe
French connection
It was as if Andrew Marr and his guests on Start the Week on Monday morning were standing on the…
How ancient Athens handled immigrants
Among all the arguments about how many non-EU immigrants we should let in, campaigners are proposing a scheme for private…
Lush, lyrical, exquisite
Brooklyn is a wee slip of a thing compared to the Bond film, Spectre, and cost $12 million, as opposed…
The Australian example
For many years, Australia has been turning away boats filled with migrants. From a remove, this looks cold–hearted — a…
France’s new reactionaries
The nation’s intellectuals are being roiled by issues of immigration, sovereignty and freedom of expression
What the Great British Bake Off really says about Britain
There was an interesting news item on the television the other day. A transgendered chap was hoping to become the…
At least these rioters hate the right people
I was unable to join the violent protests held by Class War at the Cereal Killer Café in London last…
Barometer
Available for parties Labour deputy leader Tom Watson said that leaving his party to join the Liberal Democrats would be…
