migration

Portrait of the week: Liverpool parade crash, Starmer sacrifices Chagos Islands and an octopus invasion

31 May 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, announced that ‘more pensioners’ would qualify for winter fuel payments, but did not…

Everyone should see the Globe’s brilliant new production of The Crucible

31 May 2025 9:00 am

Sanity returns to the Globe. Recent modern-dress productions have failed to make use of the theatre’s virtues as a historical…

Britain’s decline is a threat to democracy

10 May 2025 9:00 am

Democracy was born in the public square. The Athenian agora was the central meeting place of an engaged citizenry where…

Where the young rich flee to

12 April 2025 9:00 am

If Elon Musk gets his way, and Mars becomes our newest New World, I had always assumed that the people…

Pride in Britain? It’s history

15 February 2025 9:00 am

A poll out this week found that only 41 per cent of those aged 18 to 27 are proud to…

The AfD’s moment has arrived

8 February 2025 9:00 am

‘The firewall has fallen!’ Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), posted on X, barely able to…

Well done to the Channel 4 halfwits

8 February 2025 9:00 am

The number of people arriving here in small boats has increased since Sir Keir Starmer was elected Prime Minister on…

Why don’t we know how many people are in Britain?

1 February 2025 9:00 am

How many people live in Britain? You would think there would be a straightforward answer, but it eludes some of…

Portrait of the week: DeepSeek, Duke of Sussex’s damages and an iceberg the size of Cornwall

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Home The government would invest 2.6 per cent of GDP a year to create growth, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of…

Should you leave the country? Other questions for 2025

11 January 2025 9:00 am

I was intending to write one of those ‘Ten tips to change your life’ lists that fill so many column…

Letters: Are there still any reasons to be cheerful?

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Doctor’s note Sir: Your leading article ‘Labour vs labour’ (21 September) follows a recent theme that I have noticed in…

The problem with Sunak’s migrant cap

4 June 2024 9:45 pm

It is perhaps no accident that Rishi Sunak has rushed out his proposal for a cap on migrant workers and…

Can I stay in Britain?

2 December 2023 9:00 am

Enforce the borders, stop the boats, save lives

18 August 2023 6:15 pm

Rishi Sunak has failed in his pledge to ‘Stop the Boats’, and the £480 million deal he signed with France…

The problem with the Bibby Stockholm barge

29 July 2023 9:00 am

For British taxpayers perturbed by their £6 million daily bill for housing asylum seekers in hotels, New York City mayor…

Rishi Sunak is right about illegal migration

15 July 2023 9:00 am

The Illegal Migration Bill is having a distorting effect on the Tory party. It has put Theresa May and Iain…

Poland’s battle with the EU over migrant quotas

15 July 2023 9:00 am

Warsaw’s battle with the EU over migrant quotas

Tories fight over Illegal Migration Bill

11 July 2023 11:36 pm

The Illegal Migration Bill is back this afternoon for ‘ping pong’ – the final stage of its legislative passage where…

The amazing aerial acrobatics of swifts

27 May 2023 9:00 am

Over the course of one midsummer’s day, Mark Cocker presents a startling picture of the breeding, feeding, fledging and migrating habits of these little dynamos of life

Barometer

20 May 2023 9:00 am

The Illegal Migration Bill will define the next election

8 March 2023 1:37 am

The government’s Illegal Migration Bill is finally here. Speaking in the House of Commons this lunchtime, the Home Secretary unveiled…

Why Sunak would find it tough to lose Braverman

1 November 2022 6:32 am

The safest place for a minister in a crisis is meant to be the despatch box. The thinking is that…

Pre-Mussolini, most Italians couldn’t understand each other

3 September 2022 9:00 am

Towards the end of Dandelions, Thea Lenarduzzi’s imaginative and deeply affecting memoir, the author quotes her grandmother’s remark that there…

Europe’s new migrant crisis

21 August 2022 5:50 pm

Earlier this month I spent a week in Sicily, driving south from Palermo to Agrigento and then east to Syracuse…

Will the government stand up to mob rule?

12 June 2022 11:57 pm

A very big week is in store for the government’s strategy to tackle illegal immigration with all eyes on the…