‘Go Home’ Vans Are A Cause For National Shame
It is remarkable the depths to which the government have stooped in the execution of their immigration policies. The so called ‘go home’ vans and text messages from the home office have been getting...
View ArticleFolk Economics Are Obscuring The Immigration Debate
It’s Saturday morning, and I am flipping through the pages of a tired copy of the Guardian I found on a table. As I skim through it, I end up in the letters section, which today bears the title...
View ArticleThe Dehumanising Impact Of Immigration Policy
In an interview with the Guardian, the home secretary Theresa May defines an ‘illegal’ immigrant as someone that has ‘no right to be in the UK’. Denying someone the ‘right to be in the UK’ may mean two...
View ArticleThe Financialisation Of Human Dignity
The new family migration rules enacted by the Coalition government have become infamous for curtailing the right of British passport holders (let’s treat this designation for what it is: one based on...
View ArticleGovernment Must Promote Social Unity
According to a study by Ipsos Mori, the British people seem to believe themselves to be surrounded by foreigners and scroungers. People perceive that there are nearly five times as many Muslims as...
View ArticleU KIP if you want to: It’s time to wake up
So we’re supposed to take UKIP seriously, are we? Accept that they represent some legitimate and long-established current of opinion in British politics? Let’s take those questions in turn. First of...
View ArticleThe Immigration Debate Is Not New
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world – and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy...
View ArticleHow To Tackle UKIP’s ‘Seam Of Despair’
Those who are arguing that Labour should respond to the UKIP vote in Heywood and Middleton by talking tough on immigration have clearly learnt nothing from the last four years. David Cameron has spent...
View ArticleIs the UK really experiencing a brain drain?
Immigration continues to be one of the key issues in the build-up to the general election. The latest figures show a net flow of 298,000 into the UK. This is higher than when David Cameron’s government...
View ArticleThe challenge is to reframe the immigration debate
With tragic scenes of children fleeing Libya drowning in the Mediterranean, against a background of UKIP’s anti-immigration push, migration has become one of the defining issues of the UK election. But...
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