Address by the Home Secretary, David Blunkett MP
Well firstly I think you will be very pleased to hear that I agree with the latter points you've made and it is very clear indeed that deep-seated intolerance, prejudice…
Articles, Briefings and Essays
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Address by Ella Kalsbeek, Secretary of State for Justice, The Netherlands
IMMIGRATION AND INTEGRATION IN THE NETHERLANDS Mr. Chair, dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured to speak to you today about immigration and integration of newcomers in the Netherlands.…
Address by Lord Cairns, Director of CDC
In most respects, I am under qualified to speak on Managing Migration. I have two slender claims to any insight on this issue. The first is particularly apt since this…
High Stakes in the New Global Politics
The anti-globalization movement has been given an uncomfortable ride in the media since the events of September 11th. Protestors have been uncharacteristically muted, fearful of the inevitable backlash if their…
Companies: Tackling the Risk of Kidnapping
As the kidnapping of The Wall Street Journal’s reporter Daniel Pearl reminds us, kidnapping is still a useful tool for holding companies and governments to ransom. In the first article…
Interview with Sir Stephen Wall
Is the national interest something which is independent of government or is it, like Herbert Morrison’s definition of socialism, whatever the Labour Government wants to do? The national interest is…
Finding New Friends in Europe
The declaration issued by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi following their first bilateral meeting calls for the next European Union summit to represent "a new…
Global Britons?
There was a newspaper society survey only last month that said that the vast majority of the British population live, work and play within just a 14 mile radius of…
Managing Migration
Despite the media frenzy that followed, the 2002 nationality White Paper was a step in the right direction. The paper dealt with some of the most pressing issues surrounding the…
Information isn’t Power
Imagine a large room, filled with boxes containing machines that are switched on once every two years to perform a single function. They are single function machines, used to count…