Migration myths

From time to time I have found myself cornered or chided into a debate about immigration with the fruitloops and (occasionally closeted) racists in the increasingly pernicious UKIP or the Tea Party wing of the Conservative’s.  It can be frustrating to hear the same …

Are you stupid? What has happened to rational debate over immigration? (Part two) (audio)

Yesterday I wrote a post explaining how I believe that the media are largely responsible for generating and spreading fear and hysteria about immigration and setting out some of the central and broadly accepted facts about the issue.  Throughout today I have …