migration

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…

What's wrong with the Rwanda plan?

15 April 2022 3:53 am

There are many unanswered questions about the government’s new policy of compelled expulsion to Rwanda of uninvited asylum claimants. Here…

Will Britain welcome Ukrainian refugees?

1 March 2022 1:00 am

Immigration used to be the most-discussed issue in British politics. It gets less attention these days, for reasons too varied…

What’s to become of Africa’s teeming youth?

19 February 2022 9:00 am

Demographers are attached to their theories. The field’s most enduring is the ‘demographic transition’, whereby modernisation inexorably lowers a society’s…

The conflict at the heart of the migrant question

18 December 2021 9:00 am

A friend, a Cambridge professor, passing my old college last week, was startled to encounter a young lady standing outside…