Would net-zero migration make Britain richer or poorer?
The risk is that Britain now gets the worst of both worlds
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Navigate the complex landscape of immigration with our comprehensive collection of articles, offering insightful analysis, diverse perspectives, and up-to-date coverage on policies, debates, and the human stories that shape this global phenomenon.
Five political trends to watch in 2026
Predicting the debates that will dominate the new year
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Britain is blind on immigration statistics
The most important statistics in election years are more full of holes than we realise
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Europe’s victim complex
Worry about the supposed “scramble for Europe” shows how far-right tropes are taking over European foreign policy discourse
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Why does nationality matter, anyway?
Deciding someone’s legal rights based on a nebulous combination of birthplace and parentage is a bit weird
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Shabana Mahmood is battling identity politics – on left and right
There is a nasty and racialised side to the attacks on the Home Secretary
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Tinkering with ECHR definitions will not help the government
The proposed changes to Articles 3 and 8 in asylum cases will achieve little or nothing
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There are no simple solutions to the small boats crisis
What will Labour do when its asylum reforms don’t work?
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Labour understands the public on immigration
But if Shabana Mahmood’s gamble fails, Reform will benefit
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Shabana Mahmood is reckoning with reality
The current asylum system still rests on late-20th-century assumptions
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Labour has given up on integration
Shabana Mahmood’s latest asylum plans prioritise return at the expense of integrating newcomers
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
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Tracked: The Labour MPs criticising their own immigration policy
Opposition to the government’s asylum reforms is spreading beyond the usual suspects
How Labour decided to house asylum seekers in army barracks
Inside the latest attempt to close asylum hotels
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The British right is swimming in an open sewer
We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme
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How Labour can attack deportation plans
I suggested an app called “Will the Tories/Reform deport you?”. Then someone actually made it
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Rupert Lowe thanks Jenrick staffer in deportation policy paper
Sam Bidwell is cited as a brain behind Lowe’s hard-line immigration policies
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Ireland is just getting angrier
Anti-immigration rioters in West Dublin have no one to ventriloquise their rage
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How Labour can take back control of immigration from Nigel Farage
Skilled immigration would deliver Labour from denial and despair
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Revolution is in the air
We must look squarely at the world as it is, in all its complexity – from migrant camps to new…
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