The immigration figures for the last year…ending september 2013: ONS estimates of Long-Term International Migration in the year ending September 2013 The latest ONS provisional estimates of Long Term International Migration (LTIM) show that there was a statistically significant increase in net migration to 212,000 in the year ending September 2013 from 154,000 the previous year. Net migration is the difference between immigration to and emigration from … Continue reading →

    Bold claims about how little effect the lifting of labour market restrictions will have on the numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK over the next year are premature. Claims of this sort, based on a single quarter of evidence from one source, are nearly as risky as the predictions last year that lifting work restrictions would lead to a sudden “flood” of A2 migrants.     Oxford … Continue reading →

I happened to catch a BBC report on the imminent findings of the investigation into the Islamification of certain schools in Birmingham this morning just after 7am. BBC only managed to find parents and schoolchildren who PRAISED the schools they attended and who were shocked, yes shocked, at this outrageous slur that they were being Islamified. One pupil helpfully pointed out that in her school, the Muslim population attending the … Continue reading →

Middle of the week and time for a new one of these!Off you go…..

  Labour’s leader, Ed Miliband I should perhaps have to remind you, is having a torrid time…..the Tories have just overtaken Labour in the polls, he is being condemned left, right and centre, even from within his own labour ranks, he has no big policy ideas and the ones he does come up with are almost immediately shot down. You might suppose a grilling on the Nicky Campbell show would … Continue reading →

    Amnesty International seems to have forgotten all about this from Gita Sahgal: A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when a great organisation must ask: if it lies to itself, can it demand the truth of others? For in defending the torture standard, one of the strongest and most embedded in international human rights law, Amnesty International has sanitized the history and politics of the ex-Guantanamo … Continue reading →

I read that  “Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region have claimed a resounding victory in a “self-rule” referendum, saying 89% voted in favour. In Luhansk, another eastern region, the results – also expected to show a strong backing – will be released soon. BBC reporters at polling stations spoke of chaotic scenes, no voting booths in places and no electoral register.” Gosh, that comes as a surprise, doesn’t it? The BBC … Continue reading →

Here you are, on time, a brand new Open Thread to start the week! Enjoy and detail the bias.

    Boris Johnson: BBC’s treatment of veteran broadcaster has been ‘utterly disgraceful’ Boris Johnson says entire BBC board should travel down to Devon and apologise in person to broadcaster forced to resign for unwittingly playing song containing racist slur   The Mayor of London said that in a “modest way” Britain is living in a “Boko Haram world”, a reference to the Islamic militants who have attracted international condemnation … Continue reading →

Doreen Lawrence becomes UAF honorary president UAF is very proud to announce that Doreen Lawrence has agreed to become our honorary president.   Curious…….. Doreen Lawrence denies link to group accused of Farage threats Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon played down her involvement with Unite Against Fascism (UAF), whose members are accused of trying to silence the Ukip leader       The UAF are essentially Unite Union baron Len McCluskey’s  … Continue reading →