Philippe Legrain

There are few people I respect more than Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator for the Financial Times and author of Why Globalization Works, a man with a towering intellect and impeccable liberal convictions. Yet I profoundly disagree with his increasingly anti-immigration stance.

The British people want a say when the Labour Party changes its leader, and thus appoints the next prime minister. According to the Observer, A new opinion poll reveals 56 per cent of the public want the chance to have their say on the new leader of the Labour party, whoever it is, within the [...]

Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Markel, is making noises about reviving the well-worn idea of a transatlantic free-trade area (FTA), and Susan Schwab, America’s top trade negotiator, has welcomed the idea too. So might the proposal finally get off the ground?

Prospect, October 2006. Apple’s threat to sue companies that use the word “Pod” in product names is reminiscent of the bully-boy tactics that made Microsoft so unpopular in the 1990s

Doha is not yet dead and buried, but already the European Union is rushing to pursue new bilateral trade agreements instead. We should go beyond the EU’s existing bilateral free trade agreements, by setting out the case for new free trade agreements designed to deliver more open markets and fairer trading conditions in new areas [...]

As the great and the good gather in New York for the United Nations’ jamboree on international migration, Spain’s decision to expel 1,000 illegal migrants back to Senegal reminds us that our current immigration system is creaking at the seams.

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Britain meant to be a democracy? And doesn’t that mean that it ought to be up to voters who runs the country, and that nobody has an inherent right to rule? Not according to Gordon Brown. The Chancellor, we are told, has been waiting to be prime minister [...]