Immigration is falling in Britain. It’s falling so fast and so hard – net migration to the UK nearly halved between 2024 and 2025 – that before long we could conceivably be a shrinking population, with more people leaving the country than coming here. (And no, that’s not because of an exodus of bright young Britons fleeing overseas, though you wouldn’t blame them given how hard they’re finding it currently to get jobs: the rise, as the Institute for Government’s Sam Freedman helpfully points out, is mainly in foreign students and foreign workers going home.) Even small-boat crossings are down on last year. We have, in short, finally made ourselves as unattractive to the rest of the world as leave voters always wanted – which means that, sooner or later, populists who built their careers on railing against supposedly uncontrolled immigration are going to be needing another scapegoat to explain why taking back control hasn’t magically solved all the country’s problems. And with a grim inevitability, they’re finding it in turning on migrants who are already here. » | Gaby Hinsliff | Tuesday, June 9, 2026
I find JD Vance to be totally and utterly disagreeable. To me, he is a most unsympathetic character, whom I find untrustworthy. The son of a one-time drug addict, now thankfully fully recovered, in hillbilly country, he has been catapulted to high office through Peter Thiel’s injection of masses of cash. ‘Nuff said! Clearly, he is no friend of Europe’s. — © Mark Alexander
