A RECENT article in the Observer claimed that there was an emerging crisis as ‘ageing populations place shrinking economies under ever greater strain’, adducing as evidence abandonment of villages...
THE thirty years after the Second World War saw millions of housing units built. Bombed-out, poor and temporary homes (prefabs) were replaced by units...
FOLLOWING a more than tripling of asylum applications awaiting initial decision in recent years, and with illegal entries both via the Channel and in...
THE government’s promise to ‘take back control’ of Britain’s borders after Brexit is being broken. Despite tough talk from the Home Secretary that the...
THANKS to government policies on Covid-19, redundancies and youth unemployment are on an upward trajectory towards the highest level in years. Yet ministers are ploughing...
ARE we giving up on training our own butchers, bakers and IT technicians? The government's immigration policy will open up the jobs of three million...
THE illegal Channel crossings crisis is a pernicious recipe for unfairness. It is not surprising that nearly three-quarters of the public think the government...
I WROTE in these pages in April that the government needed urgently to reconsider their proposals for a post-Brexit immigration system. Even three months ago,...
THE government is considering allowing some three million Hong Kongers holding or entitled to British National (Overseas) (BNO) passports to settle here whenever they so...
THE number of immigrants arriving here illegally in small boats crossing the Channel has reached record levels since the coronavirus lockdown was ordered in...
LAST Thursday the Government published guidance to business on preparing for the points-based immigration system.
Inevitably, this led to a dusting-down of familiar arguments from...
YOU could be forgiven if you missed the latest immigration figures, published on Thursday by the Office for National Statistics, covering the year to...
