This is the opening to my essay on what old debates about Jewish refugees tell us about the immigration debate today, published in the Observer on 17 August 2025. You can read the full version in the Observer. “East of Aldgate one walks into a foreign town”, foreigners “swamping whole areas once populated by English people”. The “substitution of a foreign for an English population” has created “increasing bitterness of feeling”. No, not Robert Jenrick or Nigel Farage, but William Evans-Gordon, […]

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