Oliver Harvey

WELL, it’s simply not cricket. The “gentleman’s game” that spread the notion of fair play across the British Empire is mired in an alleged cheating scandal centred on a portly bloke from Saltburn. …

BABY-FACED Johannes Natland left his middle-class parents’ comfortable home on the Norwegian coast “to play football with friends” – then the aspiring lawyer disappeared. A heavy drug user, Natland…

LONGER than the old Routemaster double-decker London bus, the mammoth dinghy powered through the Channel swell, packed with a record-shattering 167 migrants. It means the small boats crisis may soo…

PELTED with rocks by Moroccan riot cops, a teenage migrant plunges into the waves as he attempts to swim from Africa to European territory. The half-hearted attempts to stop the lad were in vain. S…

A MIGRANT who swam to the crisis-hit Spanish enclave of Ceuta said last night that he wants to go to Britain. Mohammed Mounsessef, a 26-year-old Moroccan, was among the 60,000 people who arrived in…

PERCHED on craggy outcrops in the sea off Ceuta, dozens of migrants dreaming of a new life in Europe took extreme measures to avoid police capture. In chaotic scenes, I watched on Sunday as one you…

NOT long after watching England’s World Cup heroics on TV, Moroccan teenager Abde Ellakkoh pulled on his Three Lions strip and began swimming for his life. Plunging into the choppy waters of the St…

WELCOMING Fifa boss Gianni Infantino to the splendour of the Oval Office, Donald Trump anointed him the “king of soccer”. Once the target for childhood bullies, the football bureaucrat from humble …

AMASSING on the Moroccan border as if from nowhere, some 78,000 desperate migrants began storming the Spanish territory of Ceuta. Many had come prepared, wearing flippers or rubber rings around the…

IT is 11am at a Betfred bookies in Andy Burnham’s constituency and the shop regulars are poring over the day’s race cards. Amid the laughter and banter, retired bricklayer Derek Gaskell, 75, tells …