Published by The Independent (15th December, 2014) Myths and mantras are swirling around the increasingly-toxic immigration debate as mainstream parties flounder in the face of Ukip’s insurgency. These […]
Europe / European Union / Immigration / Policy / Politics
Britain’s refusal to save migrants is an act of inhumanity
Published by The Guardian (29th October 2014) Last year a wealthy couple called Regina and Christopher Catrambone were cruising the Mediterranean when they saw a jacket float past […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
Britain needs a party that proudly champions cosmopolitan values
Published by The Financial Times (17th October, 2014) These are strange times. An insurgent political party has won a single parliamentary by-election plus the support of fewer than […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
A Conservative split may be the catharsis the party needs
Published by The Guardian (1st October, 2014) The room was packed in anticipation of good debate. But from the start of the Conservative conference fringe event on immigration […]
Economics / Immigration / Policy
Don’t blame foreign players for England’s early exit
Published by The Independent on Sunday (22nd June, 2014) So, we must suffer for another four years: the World Cup is not coming home to the nation that […]
Immigration / Politics
The joke’s not on Nigel Farage. It’s on the rest of us
Published in The Guardian (January 29th, 2014) It has been a bad few days for Ukip. First, one of the party’s councillors said that flooding was God’s revenge […]
Immigration / Policy
Families that need £18,600 to spend Christmas together
Published in The Independent (December 19th, 2013) Like any father, Ethan James Feltham was looking forward to Christmas with his wife and their new son. But instead he […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
End this gutter debate about Britain’s immigration policy
Published in The Guardian (November 30th, 2013) It’s been a depressing week for British politics as it takes another sordid step into the stinking gutter of xenophobia. It […]
Arts / Books / Immigration / Policy
When the future is another country
Published in The Observer (November 17th, 2013) Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier (OUP) The migration of poor people to rich countries is a […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
The suburbs are changing – and so must the Tories
Published in The Guardian (October 2nd, 2013) It is hard to think of a more suburban constituency than Mole Valley at the core of the Surrey commuter belt. […]
Immigration / Policy / Syria / World
Open our borders to Syria’s refugees
Published in The Independent (September 12th, 2013) Azad Sino fled with his wife and two children from the Syrian city of Aleppo nearly two years ago, when the […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
So Vinnie, it’s one law for us and another for them, is it?
Published in The Independent (September 4th, 2013) In trademark tough guy style, Vinnie Jones has tackled this nation’s core problem. “England is past its sell by-date,” he proclaims in […]