The caravan of the saints
This is what you get when you permit the impoverishment of an entire continent, and then exploit the undocumented labour of those able to escape
Immigration
Wednesday
Wednesday
The heart of populism is identity, not race
Many voters are troubled by the fact that much of the new migration is illegal, and that the numbers are so large that assimilation will be difficult
Thursday
Macron vs Salvini: the ideological battle for Europe’s future
The first sign that Matteo Salvini was destined to do battle with Emmanuel Macron came in June, a few days after he was named Italy’s interior minister. Salvini, whose party, the League, wants to cut immigration drastically, announced that a German-registered rescue ship carrying 629 aspiring migrants from Africa would not be allowed to dock in Sicily. Macron reacted with disgust. ‘The policy of the Italian government,’ a spokesman for his political movement announced, ‘is nauseating.’ Salvini responded that if the French wanted to show their open–heartedness, they might make good on their unfulfilled pledge to feed and shelter some of the 100,000 African migrants Italy had until recently been
Tuesday
How splitting up families gave Trump the biggest crisis of his presidency
For the Democrats, the mounting furor over forcibly separating children from their parents at the border offers a golden opportunity before the midterm elections to tar Donald Trump as a heartless autocrat, a modern-day Baron Bomburst ruling over Vulgaria with his very own Child Catcher. Do a Caratacus Potts and Truly Scrumptious lurk in the wings to liberate the imprisoned children? Or will Trump continue to lock ‘em up? Both Republicans and Democrats are protesting the policy. Family values has been at the core of the GOP, particularly for its evangelical wing. This represents a repudiation of it. Franklin Graham thus denounced Trump’s move on the Christian Broadcasting Network as
