Published by The i paper (21st November, 2016) The Tory moderniser and former minister Anna Soubry was in magnificent form in a weekend newspaper interview, leaving journalist Decca […]
Education / Immigration / Policy
Misguided May’s mess over migration
Published by the ipaper (24th October, 2016) Paul Saunders was stunned when, after marrying a Cuban earlier this year, he discovered they were banned from living together in […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
Refugees are a test of our shared humanity
Published by the ipaper (18th September, 2016) South Sudan is the world’s newest country, having just passed its fifth birthday. But there is little to celebrate in a […]
Immigration / Policy
Leicester is a winner – and not just on the football pitch
Published by the ipaper (2nd May, 2016) When I started out in journalism three decades ago, I spent time on two work placements at regional newspapers. The first […]
Europe / European Union / Greece / Immigration / Policy / Politics / Syria / World
Pope’s humanity puts others to shame
Published by The iPaper (17th April, 2016) Hasan and Nour Essa are both engineers, who fled their besieged, bombed and battered home town in Syria with their young […]
Immigration / Policy
It’s easy to talk a good game on immigration
Published by The i Paper & The Independent (1st February, 2016) There is sometimes a single moment when talented young footballers do something so outrageous they declare themselves […]
Europe / European Union / Germany / Immigration / Policy
Time to face the truth about immigration
Published by The i Paper & The Independent (January 18th, 2016) The mood across Europe is hardening as desperate people continue to pour across borders in search of […]
Economics / Immigration / Policy / Politics
Immigration rules are causing a curry crisis
Published by The Daily Telegraph (2nd December, 2015) Shortly after the turn of the century, the then foreign secretary Robin Cook gave a speech celebrating British diversity that […]
Europe / European Union / France / Immigration / Policy
To turn on refugees because of Paris is weak and wrong
Published by The Guardian (18th November, 2015) Should we ban white Australians from coming to Britain? After all, one misfit teenager from Melbourne became so disillusioned with western […]
Europe / Germany / Immigration / Policy
Germany’s refugee inferno
Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th September, 2015) In the three-storey house in the neat village of Gerstungen, the smell of smoke and charred wood hangs heavy […]
Europe / Greece / Immigration / Policy
The big society bites back on refugees
Published by The Independent (7th September, 2015) Over the past five years I have spent much of my time covering the story of migration. I have met people […]
Africa / Aid / Eritrea / Europe / European Union / Immigration / Policy
Moving the goalposts to keep out refugees from repression
Published by The Independent (31st August, 2015) Eritrea is routinely called ‘Africa’s North Korea’ for its repression, restrictions on daily life and routine use of torture to crush […]