ANDREW ALEXANDER: How long before the curse of the Home Office descends on Theresa May? For the plain fact is that immigration is out of control, more than when the Tories came to power in 2010. And few see this more clearly than our existing immigrant and immigrant-descended population — alarmed at what the impending influx of Romanians and Bulgarians will do to them. ...read

Understanding a country or even a conflict takes much more than a brief visit, especially if you have the simple sense to realise that the intention is to mislead you, writes Andrew Alexander. Perhaps the most famous and influential tours in British history were those of the Webbs and Bernard Shaw to Russia in the 1930s. They came back positively glowing with praise for Stalin’s regime. ...read