The Home Office wants the navy to take charge of migrant crossings, but there’s not much value they can add.
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Talk of sending people back distracts from the UK’s clear responsibilities towards anyone who attempts the crossing.
At times of economic crisis, our feelings towards migrants can become hardened.
With normal routes disrupted by the pandemic, more people are driven to dangerous tactics.
It’s time to tell the truth about immigration.
Confrontation between French and British scallop fishers is a warning about the resource conflicts of the future.
Waves lap against the shore on the south coast of England and the North coast of France – but the answer to this puzzle is in the wind and the land, not the waves themselves.
We’d need some major innovation to bridge the Channel without disrupting shipping.
Almost half a million years ago a huge flood started breaking the apart the land bridge that joined England and France.
Calais might be in France, but it is the front line of Britain’s battle to control immigration. Yet the governments of both countries continue to pass the buck between each other and very little progress…
When the UK Environmental Audit Committee investigated the issue of protecting our marine environment last month, it concluded that there had been a woeful lack of decisive action from the government so…
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Professor of International Security at University of Bristol and Director of the Centre for Global Insecurity, University of Bristol
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London
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Professor of Marine Biology, University of Plymouth
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Emeritus Professor, Civil Engineering, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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