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48% of London’s social housing is occupied by people who are foreign - and have likely paid little or no tax [you generally have to be on low or no income to be in social housing]

This is morally wrong. We can’t be the social housing provider for the world

Philp repeats Goodwin's error (or should we call it a trick) of taking data on where someone was born and presuming that someone not born in the UK is "foreign". Someone might have been born in another country to British parents who were living abroad for a period. Boris Johnson was born in the US: is he foreign? When you look at the statistics, there are quite a lot of people in the UK who were born in Germany. Some are German nationals who moved to the UK, but lots are British nationals with a parent in the armed forces who was stationed in Germany.

Next, Philp and Goodwin presume that you cannot change your nationality. If you immigrate to the UK, integrate into UK society, speak perfect English, renounce any other citizenship you have, Philp and Goodwin would still say you are "foreign". That is not how most British people think. Prince Philip, for example, most people would say he was British, even though he was born in Greece and of Danish heritage.

Philp adds a claim that these people "have likely paid little or no tax [you generally have to be on low or no income to be in social housing]". This is also wrong. It's hard to avoid VAT. Nearly everyone is paying VAT, whatever your income. You are not kicked out of social housing because you get a job, so you may have previously had little income, but be paying more now. Or you might have had a job in the past, become unemployed and then received social housing. It is very hard to determine how much tax these people will have paid and it will vary enormously, but most of them will have paid some tax.

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Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, said that Ukraine will have to give up land seized by Russia as part of any peace deal as he flew to Saudi Arabia for make-or-break talks

On that Rubio is right, no chance Russia agrees to any ceasefire without keeping the land it has already gained

Why is the US accepting Russian conditions before negotiations have even started ?
While actively attacking Ukraine's.

You might as well say there's no chance of Russia agreeing a ceasefire without Ukraine's capitulation.

Russia wants all the regions it has partly gained not just the bits it has now occupied.

Both sides will have to compromise for a peace deal

You're assuming Russia wants a "deal".

Bloomberg just reported that Putin has issued a set of maximalist demands: Ukraine must formally commit to neutrality, abandon any ambition to join NATO, demilitarise and recognise Russian claims to annexed territory. Lavrov has ruled out European peacekeepers.

In effect, it must become a Russian satellite like Belarus.

Rubio will endorse those demands, so long as the US can strip-mine whatever is left of Ukraine.

"demilitarise"?

So the Russians can invade further in three years time and get to the Polish border?

Zelensky should tell them to do one.