Category Archives: MigrationWatch

Over the last few days I’ve been trying to fact-check MigrationWatch’s ‘key facts’ on their homepage. You can see the results here, here, here, and here. Across the seven six facts MigrationWatch switches between the UK and England, all immigration … Continue reading →

Part one is here; part two is here; part three is here. To finish this mini-series off, I’m going to look at the last three facts together. I’ve also just – and only just, embarrassingly – realised that despite the … Continue reading →

Part one is here; part two is here. We must build a new home every six minutes for new migrants. Like the claim about a migrant arriving every minute, the next ‘key fact’ makes me think of an urgent countdown. … Continue reading →

Part 1 can be found here. A migrant still arrives every minute. According to Google there are around 526,000 minutes in a year. So, do 526,000 migrants arrive each year to the UK? As table 2.01a in this zip file … Continue reading →

As anyone with a passing masochistic interest in immigration and newspapers will know, MigrationWatch is often used as a source of stories or of comment on anything about immigration. In fact, it’s probably the second most cited ‘think’ tank behind … Continue reading →