migrants
The trouble with ‘taking back control’
I sympathised with Leave voters who yearned to ‘take back control’ of British borders. After all, if being a country…
Portrait of the week: Employment falls, exam failures and a roundabout rigmarole
Home In fine weather with calm seas, 565 migrants in four days crossed the Channel in small craft. French officials…
How hot does a ‘heatwave’ have to be?
Some like it hot Are heatwaves becoming a devalued currency? Last year the Met Office defined a heatwave as three…
Is the increasing secularisation of funerals a good thing?
‘You’re thinking these girls all wrong,’ Miss Mai tells Enid in Winsome Pinnock’s play Leave Taking, adapted from the recent…
Our sheltered lives have made us overly fearful: Aminatta Forna’s Happiness reviewed
In her keynote lecture for a conference on ‘The Muse and the Market’ in 2015 Aminatta Forna mounted a powerful…
Norway is hard on migrants – but tough love works
When Angela Merkel invited refugees to Germany in 2015, tearing up the rules obliging migrants to seek asylum in the…
It’s hard to preserve the primacy of head over heart while watching this doc about refugees
Anybody who wants to maintain a strong and untroubled stance against mass migration to Europe should probably avoid BBC2’s Exodus:…
A choice of first novels
Black Rock White City (Melville House, £16.99) is ostensibly about a spate of sinister graffiti in a Melbourne hospital. ‘The…
Exodus from Gambia
A ticket to paradise comes very cheap in Gambia — as long as you’re headed in the right direction. Thomas…
Migrants rescued from Channel, PM shares platform with Sadiq Khan
Home Two British men were charged with immigration offences after the rescue by night of 18 Albanian migrants, two of…
The biggest threats to gorillas (Cincinnati Zoo not included)
Gorilla warfare Harambe, a 17-year-old gorilla, was shot at Cincinnati Zoo after he started dragging away a boy aged four…
Portrait of the week
Home The government published a Treasury analysis warning that an exit from the EU would plunge Britain into a year-long…
How Recep Erdogan became the most powerful man in Europe
President Erdogan has the EU’s leaders exactly where he wants them
Marina Lewycka’s Granny steals the show
Marina Lewycka’s latest happy-go-lucky tale of migrant folk in Britain takes a remark by the modernist architect Berthold Lubetkin as…
Portrait of the week
Home In the Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, kept talking of the ‘next generation’. He outlined cuts…
Portrait of the week
Home The Bank of England arranged for banks to be able to borrow as much money as they needed around…
The EU is on a suicide mission. Do we want to be a part of it?
It’s bad enough here, but Europe’s migrant folly is suicidal
If the migrant crisis goes on like this, there may be no EU for Britain to leave
Imagine if Nigel Farage declared that police should be ready to shoot migrants trying to make it from Calais to…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, having continued talks through the night in Brussels, announced that he had achieved a ‘special status’ for…
Inside the Tories' EU dogfight
The Brexit campaign has only just started to demonstrate its strength
The next immigration crisis
There has been an influx of 2.5 million Syrian refugees, and almost as many again are expected. At this rate, Turkey’s migrant problem is set to become Europe’s
‘Are you worried about being sexually assaulted?’: my night in Cologne
I chased the shadow of the New Year’s Eve sex attacks through the city’s carnival
Portrait of the Week
Home Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, prepared a paper on the four areas of concern between Britain…
The new sceptics’ case for staying in the EU: it’ll sink soon anyway
As Tory ministers wrestle with their consciences before the EU referendum, an intriguing new argument for voting to stay has…
Portrait of the week: English lessons, civil partnerships, the price of oil
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that Muslim women must learn English, and that those who had entered on…
