The company you keep
Last Thursday in the Guardian, there was a letter from one Desmond Hewitt telling us we should watch what we say about the people ‘protesting’ outside hotels housing asylum seekers in the UK. Referring...
Category: Immigration
Did immigration really cost Labour these elections?
A little over a week ago, in council elections across the UK and a parliamentary by-election in a historically safe Labour seat, the so-called Reform UK party, whose leader is Nigel Farage who previously...
Axel Rudakubana is guilty, and nobody else
Last week Axel Rudakubana, an 18-year-old man born in Cardiff of Rwandan parentage, pled guilty to three murders and multiple counts of attempted murder and carrying a knife in connection with last August’s Southport...
They weren’t protests
Last week I was listening to Eddie Nestor’s show on BBC London on my way back from a delivery run out to south Essex, and I heard him tell us he was going to...
The ‘elitism’ of mere thought
Last week Matt Goodwin published an article on his Substack (most of it paid-for, which I refuse to do, but you can read the first few paragraphs free) claiming that the controversy over the...
Hong Kong migrants: where will they live?
In reaction to the new security law the Chinese government have imposed on Hong Kong, a former British territory returned in 1997 which in theory enjoys autonomy from China under an arrangement known as...
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...
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](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/30/home-office-apologises-for-wrongly-telling-british-man-shane-ridge-leave-uk). 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](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-30439592) 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...