As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Can we finally bust the myths about migration?
From misunderstanding the net gain made from foreign students to the need for workers to plug the gaps created by our ageing population, anti-immigration tropes need to be confronted, writes PAUL DONOVAN
THE national obsession with immigration in this country is often difficult to fathom.
The latest furore concerned net immigration figures of 745,000.
The throwing around of such figures is misleading, pulling together refugees, economic migrants, students and others in a headline figure that Daily Mail leader writers can then fulminate about.
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