migrants
What are the most ‘unsettling’ artworks to hang in 10 Downing Street?
The art of politics Keir Starmer moved a portrait of Lady Thatcher from one room at 10 Downing Street to…
Portrait of the week: UK cancels Israel exports, Grenfell fire report released and AfD victory in Germany
Home The government cancelled 30 out of 350 export licences for arms to Israel on items that it said could…
Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, proposed reaching net zero in 2050 ‘in a better, more proportionate way’ such as by…
Barometer
Within limits Do 20mph speed limits save lives? – A 2018 report by Atkins/AECOM/UCL found that 51% of motorists conformed…
Politicians can’t win on illegal migration
It is eight years now since The Spectator sent me to Lampedusa to see the boats coming in. That was…
Why do the Tories force asylum seekers to live on welfare?
Over decades of service as a floating hotel, the Bibby Stockholm has accommodated all manner of people. It has housed…
Why not house refugees on barges?
‘By the light of the torches, we saw the black Hulk lying out a little way from the mud of…
The myths around immigration
After the media bigged up the expiration of America’s Covid-era Title 42, which enabled the US to block entries into…
Liz Truss is a liberal. So how will she approach immigration?
Should Tories already be feeling buyer’s remorse over their new leader? It has been only 20 days since Boris Johnson,…
The conflict at the heart of the migrant question
A friend, a Cambridge professor, passing my old college last week, was startled to encounter a young lady standing outside…
What happens to Afghan migrants when they reach the UK?
What happens to Afghan migrants when they reach the UK?
Boris must act to prevent a repeat of the Channel migrant tragedy
The tragic drowning of more than two dozen people in the English Channel yesterday should remind us that closing down…
Is Boris brave enough to solve the Channel migrant crisis?
The sheer number of useless interventions that have been touted as offering a solution to the cross-Channel migrants crisis is…
Poland’s Belarusian border conflict is becoming violent
The EU’s conflict with Belarus is heating up. The simmering migrant crisis on the Polish border with Belarus exploded into…
Why did neo-Nazis patrol the German border?
Just after midnight last Sunday, around 50 vigilantes gathered in east Germany to ‘patrol’ the country’s border with Poland. They…
Priti Patel strikes a bullish tone
The theme of Priti Patel’s party conference speech this afternoon was very much ‘large and in charge’. She devoted much…
Letters: The problem with the ‘alpha migrants’
Here illegally Sir: Unfortunately, Charlotte Eagar misses the point (‘The alpha migrants’, 31 July). The Channel migrants may be ‘bright…
Portrait of the week: Channel crossings, chain-gangs for criminals and Tesco Bank shuts up shop
Home The daily number of coronavirus cases detected by tests fell from 54,674 on 17 July to 23,511 by 27…
Turning the tide: how to deal with Britain’s new migrant crisis
How Britain can stem the stream of illegal arrivals
Immigration is Joe Biden’s Achilles heel
Having indulged an unhealthy interest in human migration for decades, I’ve been intrigued by how the number of illegal immigrants…
The UK’s immigration figures are a fantasy
Journalists filing to deadline are apt to dig only so deep when googling for statistics, which in themselves are sometimes…
Priti Patel is running out of excuses for the Channel migrant crisis
When immigration minister Chris Philp announced last summer that he was in the process of agreeing a ‘new operational plan’ with…
The plight of the migrant: Crossed Lines, by Marie Darrieussecq, reviewed
‘We should be living in a brave country and on a brave planet that bravely distributes its occupants,’ thinks Rose…
