As the era of the dark side recedes a little, my sense of the looming reality is as follows. The men who ordered a man tied to a chair, doused in water, and chilled to hypothermia so intense he had to be rushed to emergency medical care, the men who presided over at least two [...]
Speaking on Five Live Breakfast News this morning, with Andrew Green of MigrationWatch. Listen here
Posted 15 Jan 2009 in Blog, Britain, Immigration
Britain’s banks aren’t lending, which is strangling the economy. The package of measures to support lending to smaller businesses which the government announced yesterday will do some good. But it is not enough. As I have argued previously, the government should direct nationalised Northern Rock to step into the breach. Anatole Kaletsky endorses this position [...]
The updated and revised paperback edition of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them will be published in the English-speaking world outside the US on 5 February. It is available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk here. Thank you to everyone who visits this website for your support.
Posted 15 Jan 2009 in Blog, Immigration
UK foreign secretary David Miliband has written an excellent piece in today’s Guardian about why the notion of a ‘war on terror’ is inaccurate and harmful. He argues that: The more we lump terrorist groups together and draw the battle lines as a simple binary struggle between moderates and extremists, or good and evil, the [...]
In Britain, the government is today publishing its long-awaited citizenship, immigration and borders bill. It proposes that prospective citizens should have to "earn" British citizenship after going through a probationary period. I have written a critique of the earned-citizenship proposals here. I debated whether Britain still needs immigration in a recession of Radio Five Live [...]
Posted 15 Jan 2009 in Blog, Britain, France, Immigration
Simon Jenkins on Britain’s illiberal and senseless drugs policy: Leaving ecstasy in class A on the grounds that "there is no such thing as a safe dose" is public stupidity. On this basis there is no safe alcoholic drink or cigarette. There is no safe tree, no safe ladder and, according to Smith, no safe [...]
