Essex truck tragedy: why the driver is probably innocent
Note: this was written on Thursday 24th when the story was a day and a half old, the dead were still believed to be Chinese rather than Vietnamese, and Maurice ‘Mo’ Robinson had only...
Category: Immigration
Why birthright citizenship should be defended
Last week it was announced that Donald Trump favoured ending the automatic American citizenship of anyone born in the USA, which a number of conservative politicians claimed was constitutional although it clearly violates the...
Shane Ridge case: Shurely shome mishtake
Update: The Home Office has apologised after it established that Shane Ridge was indeed automatically a British citizen. I’ve filed this under “Immigration” even though the ‘immigrant’ in question, Shane Ridge from Colne, Lancashire,...
The Sun on migrants: vagrants, cockroaches, a disease
Yesterday the Sun published an article by Katie Hopkins, former Apprentice contestant and professional loudmouth and bigot, suggesting that we “use gunships” to tackle the problem of migrants coming across the Mediterranean in unsafe...
Discriminatory on every level
Man faces deportation as UK wife’s salary too low Last week a couple found out that they had been refused the right to settle in the UK and would have to split or resettle...
“The Lost Girls”: why it’s a load of old rubbish
The lost girls: Illegal abortion widely used by some UK ethnic groups to avoid daughters 'has reduced female population by between 1,500 and 4,700' - Science - News - The Independent I saw this...
Obama urged to show more clemency than we do
Barack Obama urged to show clemency to Briton deported from US | World news | The Guardian Philip Hartley-Wall is a 42-year-old man born in the UK whose family moved him to the USA...
No, it’s not fascism
Recently there has been some well-deserved condemnation on blogs and Twitter feeds that I read about the British government’s attacks on immigration, which took the form of vans telling people who are in the...
Labour: councils can’t set immigration policy
This is the party election broadcast by the Labour party that was broadcast just now on British TV. You might notice that the first thing Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, talked about was immigration...
“Merton’s not white anymore”, moans former liberal in the Daily Mail
A mega mosque in a suburb that was 90 per cent white 30 years ago and the polite apartheid dividing Britain | Mail Online Barely a month ago I responded to an article in...
Go after abusive media companies, not bloggers
Samuel Johnson famously asked, in an essay written during the American war of independence, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”. These days, we hear...
Perfidious Albion
BBC News - Leading music college loses border licence Point Blank Music College, a well-regarded college which seems to specialise in modern music (teachers include DJ Pete Tong, alumni include Goldie and Leona Lewis)...
Acton’s not white anymore, moans Salisbury Reviewer
‘I feel like a stranger where I live’ - Telegraph This article appeared in today’s Telegraph and I had the ‘pleasure’ of seeing the print edition which has several stock images which are not...
Ex-soldier facing expulsion over 2010 fight
BBC News - Fijian-born soldier Isimeli Baleiwai fights to stay in UK (also at Channel 4 News) Isimeili Baleiwai served in the British army for 13 years, seeing action in Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Iraq...
New immigration rules: targeted at Asians, again
Stark choice under new immigration rules: exile or family breakup | UK news | The Guardian After the fiasco of the raised age limit for non-EU spouses (it was set at 21, ostensibly to...
Press attitudes and bureaucratic nightmares
Teenager who doesn’t exist: Birth certificate blunder in Spain means British girl can’t get passport or even a bus pass | Mail Online The above report is about a young girl who was born...
Calls for apologies for 1970s virginity tests
The Guardian have been running various stories lately over files released which show the extent of virginity tests which were being carried out on Asian brides, either on arrival at Heathrow or before they...
How UK immigration treats young torture victims
Yesterday I watched a programme about the extent the British immigration “services” will go to get rid of child and teenage refugees. It told the stories of three cases, a family from Iran in...
Two examples of UK immigration madness
A tale of two stories (about which I hope I’m wrong) | Minority Thought The two stories are about two people, a man from Jamaica who moved here in the 1960s with his father,...
Another victim of the “foreign criminals” media scandal
It was reported in the Guardian today that a story released by the Home Office and G4S (formerly Group 4 Security, a contractor which handles deportations of failed immigrants to the UK) about how...