Foreigners

God, it’s grim out there. Not just the weather, but the political climate. Spokespersons for all three parties are competing to make ever so subtly coded hints that they’re far more hostile to immigrants than the other two. Such is the power of UKIP picking up by-election votes. It takes the Bishop of Dudley and Ian Birrell (a former Cameron speechwriter) to be honest about this shabby auction of principle.