Newsletters
We keep in regular contact with our readers through weekly newsletters, which are archived here for you to browse at any time. Alternatively, you can sign up to receive them directly.
Our Latest Newsletters
Explore our latest newsletters. Stay informed with well-researched insights.
Beware The Burnhamwave
Britain is still living with the consequences of the “Boriswave”: the unprecedented surge in migration produced by Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit immigration system. Net migration peaked at 944,000 in the year to March 2023. Although it…
Learn More
Weak Budgets and Even Weaker Borders
This week, the Chancellor told us his Budget would bring “breathing space for today, fresh hope for the future”. On immigration, it is anything but. Buried in the small print is a collection of liberalising…
Learn More
Dither, Delay and Pay The Price
The Home Office has found a novel way to deal with a deadline: ignore it. The Critic reports that the internal 14 October date for announcing Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) reforms has disappeared, with…
Learn More
Stop This Madcap Rush Towards National Hara-Kiri
For years, politicians, officials, corporate lobbyists and many academics have insisted our nation’s prosperity depended on ever-escalating levels of mass migration. Migration Watch has argued against this and for years said that low-skill, low-pay immigration…
Learn More
Robots, Not Migrants
Britain cannot build a prosperous future by propping up inefficient, outmoded and struggling businesses by giving them a free hand to import cheaper migrant labour. For too long, politicians have gone along with employers’ demands…
Learn More
The Shabanawave Approaches
Whatever moniker it ends up with, we have no doubt that the ‘safe and legal routes’ for asylum seekers announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood this week, will not stop the boats. Nor will it have…
Learn More
Don’t Get Distracted
For all the headlines, political rows and television footage, you could be forgiven for thinking that Britain’s immigration problem begins and ends with small boats. It does not.
Learn More
A Serious Problem Deserves A Serious Debate
There was something revealing about our Chairman, Alp Mehmet’s, appearance this week before the Public Bill Committee considering the Government’s Immigration and Asylum Bill.
Learn More
The NHS Must Break Its Dependence On Overseas Recruitment
Overseas recruitment allows governments to postpone the investment needed to attract and retain staff here, and should be treated as a policy failure to overcome, rather than justification to continue the failure.
Learn More
Don’t Get Distracted
For all the headlines, political rows and television footage, you could be forgiven for thinking that Britain’s immigration problem begins and ends with small boats. It does not.
A Serious Problem Deserves A Serious Debate
There was something revealing about our Chairman, Alp Mehmet’s, appearance this week before the Public Bill Committee considering the Government’s Immigration and Asylum Bill.
The NHS Must Break Its Dependence On Overseas Recruitment
Overseas recruitment allows governments to postpone the investment needed to attract and retain staff here, and should be treated as a policy failure to overcome, rather than justification to continue the failure.
Immigration Ponzi Scheme Puts Pensions in Peril
The pensions crisis remains unresolved while population growth – driven by migration – continues at a historically unprecedented pace, as young migrants too grow older and become the pensioners of the future.
New Home Office Stats Show Government Still Hasn’t Got A Grip
Bringing numbers down from historically exceptional highs is one thing. Restoring a properly controlled, sustainable immigration system, at levels the country can absorb, is quite another.
The Home Office’s Plan To Stop Asylum Rapes
How Shabana Mahmood of all people, nominally more sensible and measured than many of her predecessors, could possibly have seen merit in the booklet published earlier this week, “Understanding behaviours and expectations in the UK: a guide to asylum seekers”, beggars belief.