Chris Middleton
Chris Middleton is an Independent journalist. He tweets at @ChrisMid
The shameful way the BBC covers migrant protests
Media bias doesn’t come from outright lies, It comes from framing
Emigration, not immigration built the modern world
The UK wasn’t built by immigrants, but British emigrants built the world
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
The end of corporate silence
Louis Mosley’s demolition of Zack Polanski shows how companies are learning to confront political fantasy head-on
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
Labour’s Gagging Acts
Labour is taking inspiration from Pitt the Younger when it comes to curbing speech
Can we get removals right?
Deporting illegal migrants is a lot more difficult than promising to deport them
A very American birthday party
n the USA’s divisive 250th birthday celebrations
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
Life for petty theft?
IPP sentences are a shocking stain on the criminal justice system that the Prime Minister would do well to kill off
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
