Salut!

Leonarda: if this is how socialists act, heaven help France under FN

This is how I report on the scandal of French treatment of Leonarda, a 15-year-old Kosvar girl, for The National, Abu Dhabi. You are entitled to disagree with my own sense of outrage. For me, the case leaves a nasty taste in the mouth of humanity ...

Calais // The last stop in northern France before the short crossing to England, above or beneath water, has a troubled recent history of coping with the seemingly unstoppable flow of illegal immigrants.

Media ethics: what every reporter should still be told

Along with many others, I commend this code of conduct, issued by the late Mike Randall - no relation - when he edited the Daily Mail in the 1960s, and published at a blog called Dysonology.

I hope it was the wish of Dysonology, written by Jack Dyson, the son of one of Randall's reporters of that era, that it should be be seen by as wide an audience as possible; I am sure he will be in touch if he objects to its appearance here.