It’s our culture, stupid
A new Fabian pamphlet, published yesterday, calls on Labour to reach out to an increasingly socially conservative electorate with visions of a fairer society.
Immigration
Miliband shouldn’t repeat the myth about immigrants’ impacts on wages
Ed Miliband shouldn’t let unsupported myths about immigration cloud his thinking on the issue.
Universities tell Cameron: Please don’t crack down on international students
Seventy university heads have sent a letter to the prime minister asking him not to unfairly target international students to lower immigration levels.
Social housing and immigration: the need for transparency and fairness
Amidst concerns about migrants’ social housing allocations, statistics offer the public little reassurance – we need a new, transparent and inclusive approach.
Tackling homelessness in London
Homelessness in 2012 London, still here, still shocking; Tola A. Ositelu interviews Mike Nicholas, communications manager for homeless charity Thames Reach.
Merah killings raise tough questions for France about integration
Sanchia Alasia looks at the questions France must ask of itself in the wake of the carnage wrought by extremist Islamist Toulouse killer Mohamed Merah.
Desperate Sarkozy cranks up the anti-immigration rhetoric
Cllr Sanchia Alasia reports on French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s anti-Schengen, pro-protectionism speech last week, as the French election campaign hots up.
Migrants paid under £35k become “guest workers”, but it won’t help the government
Matt Cavanagh runs through the government’s plans to throw out workers who don’t earn enough fast enough – but it won’t work the way they want it to.
There’s no magic bullet to encourage integration
Nick Mickinski examines the government’s proposals to encourage integration of migrants.
“She calls her town a ‘s***hole'”: Irish newspaper smears Polish migrants
Alex Hern covers the ballsy attempt by the Irish Independent to smear a pair of Polish migrants by mistranslating an article that was freely available for all to check