meganroughley.bsky.social
Retired academic. Recently x-scaped. Endlessly intrigued by facts past and present. More physical than metaphysical but still love a good story.
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I know! All that expensive education, that sterling silver accent, those expensive tailored suits -- gone to waste on a simpleton.
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Under the 1948 British Nationality Act, that was the case -- until the Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1968 put paid to that (sane, just) notion.
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He's not a fascist. He's merely a jobsworth.
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It's the dilemma I used to feel in the late Blair/Mandelson/Campbell era. Except they were more nasty than incompetent.
(Campbell is perhaps redeeming himself. The other two are still nasty -- and influential.)
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Read it & re-read it. Scrutiny has not alleviated my concerns. It offers false notions of migrant participation in UK economy & society (taking resources, not integrating, not being fluent in English) & confuses causality & correlation (migrants causing drop in apprenticeships). Disingenuous shite.
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Ah, that I didn't know -- but I can see it now.
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Starmer is an experienced KC. He knows how rhetoric works. He used 3 provocative phrases deliberately. Whether somebody else wrote them for him is a moot point.
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Maybe you should. He's currently Britain's most pungent satirist. You might like it.
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Um, did you read the Crace's piece? Agreement it was not.
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Admirable ambition, but from where are you going to magic the necessary specialists to provide the service?
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He may not be stupid, but he's trapped in the Westminster bubble and can't recall life in the real world.
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Working-class families in Britain today are much more likely to be of diverse origins, the result of post 2nd world war migration. Migrants were needed. Migrants are still needed. The solution to w/c disadvantage is less likely to be capping immigration than distributing income more fairly.
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Well, that would reduce the population by, what, 60%? 😆
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So, a Labour government decides to crash the care system???
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But they already do 🤷♀️, apart from asylum seekers who want to work but are not allowed to. Oh, make it make sense.
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😂😂 Christmas was most definitely not cancelled. It's too much of a money spinner.
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Some 50 years of in education have brought me to the point where phrases like "targeted changes" and "huge improvements" signify nothing more than some minister happily sacrificing teachers and pupils to their personal ambition.
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Sounds too very much "same old, same old".
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That is "head girl" face.
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None of mine are categorically philosophers, but they've done the labour: Herman Melville, Samuel Beckett, Terry Pratchett. (Do love Camus, though.)