Philippe Legrain

I was a guest on Little Atoms on Friday 18 January. It is a show about ideas on London’s Resonance 104.4 FM. You can listen to my interview here.

I presented my ideas on immigration to Norway’s minister of labour and social inclusion, Bjarne Håkon Hanssen (far right in picture, a social democrat politically), at a seminar in Oslo this week organised by Civita. He is preparing (hopefully progressive) immigration reforms.

I gave a talk tonight at the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), a free-market think-tank in London, and had the dubious pleasure of being repeatedly heckled and interrupted by that old battle-axe Norman Tebbit. The man who told jobless Brits to get on their bike to look for a job is not in favour of [...]

I have to say a big thank you to Gene Epstein, economics editor of Barron’s, who recommends both my books as gifts "that promote thought".

Nicolas Sarkozy won last year’s French presidential elections on an anti-immigration platform designed to curry favour with the voters of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s racist National Front. Since his election, he has tightened France’s immigration laws. His talentless lackey of an immigrant minister, Brice Hortefeux, loves talking tough about how France will deport Africans who dare [...]