Philippe Legrain

Prospect, September 2006. Disappointment at Doha, but it wasn’t all America’s fault. Is BP having too much bad luck? And Wolfowitz demands that the World Bank stops corruption

Perennial presidential failure Pat Buchanan has written yet another polemic warning of the apocalyptic consequences to the US of immigration. According to a leaked excerpt of State of Emergency: Third World Invasion and Conquest of America on the Drudge Report, his new book begins thus: The children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes [...]

If you deploy the National Guard, they’ll slip around them. If you build a 60-metres-high wall, they’ll find a 61-metres-high ladder Father Prisciliano Peraza Garcia, who runs a migrant shelter in Altar, on Mexico’s border with US, told Newsday. Hunger is stronger than fear.

Some opponents of immigration are so utterly shameless that they will use any sick and twisted nonsense to further their cause.

In last year’s UK general election, Labour lambasted the Conservatives for plastering posters all over the country declaring that "It’s not racist to impose limits on immigration". But now John Reid, the home secretary, has started sounding a lot like Michael Howard. He says he wants to end the "daft, so-called politically correct notion that [...]