The migration advisory committee (MAC) has done a great service with its latest report into the effects of European migration. We have been accustomed to unsubstantiated assertions, wild generalisations and dog-whistle politics about migrants, including from the EU. The MAC provides analysis and [...]

If it is true that failure makes a great teacher, the Liberal Democrats must know a lot about British politics. Currently they are learning about Brexit by failing to capitalise on the votes of millions of remainers, despite being England’s most pro-European mainstream party. In 2016 support for EU membership was [...]

Always wanted to drink your tea in an Emmanuel Macron mug? Rejoice: on Friday, the Elysée presidential palace launched its online gift shop. The collection of official souvenirs includes Macron-themed mugs for €24.90 (£22) and T-shirts (€55). About 12% of the sales will be put toward the renovation of the [...]

The Salisbury poisoning case gets stranger by the minute. The two men whom the Crown Prosecution Service fingered as prime suspects in the attempted assassination of Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March this year have finally gone public. Or have [...]

Of all the scandals plaguing the Trump administration, there is none more serious or more forgotten than the aftermath of Hurricane [...]

“I can understand the shock in Sweden after the electoral breakthrough of the Swedish Democrats.” I wrote that in the Swedish paper Expressen, not in response to today’s elections, but in 2010, when the far-right party first entered parliament, gaining 5.7% of the votes and 20 [...]

Civilians like me, trapped in Idlib, Syria, are terrified that it is only a matter of time before their Northern enclave becomes the last and most brutal front in the crisis. Each day brings a new barrage of bombing, and fresh reports that an attack on the region surrounding the city of Idlib by government forces is [...]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said this summer that ” when the generation that survived the war will no longer be here, we will know whether we have learned from history.” As a Polish Jew born in 1925, who survived the Warsaw ghetto, lost my family in the Holocaust, served in a special operations unit of [...]

Last weekend, in Chemnitz, Saxony, a 35-year-old Cuban German was killed after a quarrel with two asylum-seekers, one Syrian, one Iraqi. Within 24 hours, the Internet was full of images that showed that the authorities were barely able to control the thousands of right-wing populist demonstrators who descended on the [...]

Placards are being prepared. Photo-opportunities are being organised. A list of demands is being drawn up by a coalition of pressure groups, unions and NGOs. Yes, preparations are well under way for protests to mark next month’s 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers – the pivotal moment in the global [...]