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These people have my sympathy and my admiration. Packing up your life never gets easier, I respect them prioritising themselves over a country that will turn on them in a hearbeat. Let their next home be one that realises their value.

Out of curiosity, what aspects of the Tory tenure do you believe were anti-racist?

Home Office post with a black background and the words Access to benefits restricted to British (with a union flag as the texture for the word "British") Citizens in all caps bold font

Home Office: How dare people say we are acting like the far-right?

Also the Home Office: These far-right graphics look great, let's copy them.

Shabana Mahmood hits out at Tommy Robinson’s backing of Labour’s migration policy Shabana Mahmood has said she finds it “deeply offensive” when MPs quote Tommy Robinson at her in the Commons, after the far-right activist backed the government’s sweeping asylum reforms. Asked about ...

Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.

www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...

According to her *own* school of thought, we should be asking why Robinson thinks she's less than, and tailoring government policy to his whims. Will she finally realise how myopic a view that is, or is self awareness too much to ask?

Earned settlement The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

If, like me, this utter betrayal by Labour is making your blood boil, can I ask you let them know your feelings here www.gov.uk/government/c...

Labour, extraordinarily, doing the exact same thing (changing the rules so that they retrospectively apply to people who'd followed the rules and done everything right) that they expressed outrage at the Tories for suggesting just a few weeks ago.

a side note, but "Keir Starmer vowed to curb net migration...migrants to wait as long as 10 years to apply to settle in the UK instead of automatically gaining settled status after five years." there IS NO AUTOMATIC SETTLING! this is *not a thing that exists*, @andrewgregory.com. Labour made that up

I got an anger headache when her foreword opened with the old "my family were migrants" line

I was under the impression there was still a consultation ongoing about this from the White Paper? Is this just announcing more details?

The misconceived notion that the way to deal with the backlog of asylum claims is to duplicate the system so as to have exit assessments too.

In essence: addressing the problem of a queue by forming another queue, just as long.

Daft, as well as cruelly unsettling.

Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations

Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...

Most citizens in any given country don't know what the immigration policies actually are to even react to these changes! Does she think Tommy Robinson is leading a pack of hard right policy wonks who will soften their stance once she fiddles with enough immigration/asylum rules?

Labour needs a way out of the infernal circle of immigration policy Politics today is about ‘open vs closed’, but the UK government’s approach risks appeasing no one

Excellent column from @stephenkb.bsky.social on what
@alanmanning4.bsky.social refers to as the “infernal circle” of immigration policy www.ft.com/content/1144...

Agreed!

No but that's still a fair distinction to draw. My underlying point is the existence nuance which we are both driving at.

Hey now the English Courts still use it as one of their judicial terms. Tradition is well and truly kept alive

Imperial Mismeasurement Kemi Badenoch, The Institute of Economic Affairs and the Distortion of Colonial History[1] Alan Lester De Beers African Migrant Labour Compound, c.1886 The IEA (Institute for Economic Affairs) was …

This article is long and sometimes prone to academic sniping but I think it makes the point better than I can: blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...

And I get that but much of the capital to invest in industrial era technology came from empire! And revenue from empire shores up reserves so you don't have to resort to borrowing as often. GDP cannot be your sole metric when discussing the aftermath of empire

If a country enjoys a period of economic dominance at the expense of other countries, I don't personally care that it then lost all that wealth. It still extracted it, slowing down growth for someone else.

Right but you can appreciate the difference between "x isn't the reason this country is wealthy" and "x isn't the reason this country is wealthy because y decimated its reserves".

It's not just about how a country gets ahead but who ultimately pays for it

Again more than prepared to accept that imperialism made less of an impact economically than I once thought, but not on the sole basis of GDP

I could accept that imperialism was a lesser net economic benefit than previously believed but I would struggle to make that decision off of UK GDP alone. It ignores how other nations grew/shrank, the comparison between them and the UK, and how much wealth moved to the UK at the expense of others.

Out of interest, source?

I will say for all my doubts it is objectively (/s) good for any game to have a button that lets you command one of your allies to deliver a drop kick. I would pay for that to be a feature in most games (bonus points if it can interrupt dialogue).

I can't say the feeling of wilderness areas being unpopulated changes (so far) but there are a lot of improvements. Dialogue and character building are far more enjoyable, and conversation flows semi-naturally.

Could not remember the details of the DLC to save my life which I guess is its own kind of tell

Yeah I did get the sense TOW1 was trying to find its feet the whole time, especially comparing it to FO:NV. Fwiw, TOW2 is shaping up to be an improvement, but (quite fairly) not everyone would buy the sequel to a game they were "meh" on.

Overall thoughts on the first game?