Calais Articles

The Labour party has always had a proud internationalist tradition. Yet in recent years we have allowed ourselves to be bullied into thinking that any attempt by the West to intervene in the affairs of another country, regardless of the reasons for intervention, is...

There are currently 608 unaccompanied children living in the refugee camp just three miles outside the centre of Calais. 308 of them have the legal right to live in the United Kingdom. Medical volunteers have reported increasing numbers of young boys, aged between 14...

Has the public changed its mind about immigration? Sunder Katwala investigates A casual observer could be forgiven for struggling to understand British public opinion on immigration. How could the same voters who backed the United Kingdom Independence party in the...

John Maynard Keynes wrote, frustrated, that leading Labour politicians of his era did not realise they are not ‘secretaries of an outworn creed … but the heirs of eternal liberalism’. For most of Labour’s history, the party has proved Keynes’ frustrations right;...