It is baffling how immigration has changed the game in British politics these days. There are more fundamentally important issues facing British society, most notably a stalled economy that has the country on the edge of a triple-dip recession. Yet, the immigration threat,...

Today I started my day with an intense debate with a close friend about how negative attitudes towards migrants and minority groups are reflected in the every-day language we use in our conversations. I was arguing that stereotyping should not find its place in the public vocabulary. She insisted that...

For the past couple of weeks we have been spectators to an intense cross-border ping-pong exchange between Bucharest and London. This is based on the premise that a potential second tsunami of Eastern European migrants will flood the UK next year when transitional restrictions applied to Romania and Bulgaria are...