A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
Why in the name of God would you deduce from my posting the story that I think any of that?
“So it begins” implies that you think that the government should give way
Yesterday’s @thetimes /@YouGov polling found that many Leavers think Sunak is a Remainer, but most Remainers know he’s a Brexiteer. That’s a dangerous place to be ahead of any general election, when more people (green line) think in hindsight quitting the EU was a mistake. https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1588846276560715777/photo/1
How can they think Sunak is a Remainer ? Further highlights that the Leave vote was made up by a lot of low information voters.
I'd love to see some exploration of this. First guess: post-furlough, Sunak is seen as the boring, spreadsheety "you can't have something for nothing" type. And in 2016, that was the Remain approach.
And part of the story of 2016 and 2019 was voting for optimism over arithmetic. Not all of it, but a part of it-maybe a decisive part.
Unfortunately, arithmetic isn't changed by the will of the people.
Let’s ignore the religious overtones here - that’s just US specific. Not crazy, just different.
More interesting is the defensive doom-landed tone. You need a fighter/protector because you are under threat and only I can save you. Proto-fascist rather fascist in my view, but the strong man motif (and the positioning as the Chosen One) certainly has the potential to develop that way
Which is not dissimilar to Braverman’s language of “invasion”.
Not really 1 much more sophisticated. Braveman’s approach is demonising a specific group - De Santis is much more subtle (!) in that is posits a generic threat with a specific protector
Yesterday’s @thetimes /@YouGov polling found that many Leavers think Sunak is a Remainer, but most Remainers know he’s a Brexiteer. That’s a dangerous place to be ahead of any general election, when more people (green line) think in hindsight quitting the EU was a mistake. https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1588846276560715777/photo/1
How can they think Sunak is a Remainer ? Further highlights that the Leave vote was made up by a lot of low information voters.
I can understand it. They associate “remainer” with urbane, technocratic softly spoken types and “leaver” with rabble rousing slightly scruffier and more charismatic politicians.
De Santis has done everything in his power to overturn this result...
And DeSantis boasts about this.
De Santis is a fascist.
Hmm.
I wouldn't get too afraid of the F word for where the GOP are heading. Eg they're intent on putting election deniers in charge of elections. People who believe the Republicans losing is proof of a fraudulent vote. In charge of the vote. Deeply suboptimal.
Let’s ignore the religious overtones here - that’s just US specific. Not crazy, just different.
More interesting is the defensive doom-landed tone. You need a fighter/protector because you are under threat and only I can save you. Proto-fascist rather fascist in my view, but the strong man motif (and the positioning as the Chosen One) certainly has the potential to develop that way
"Fascist" has become an aspirational state in the GOP.
I don’t think so, but they are falling for the strong leader BS
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
De Santis has done everything in his power to overturn this result...
And DeSantis boasts about this.
De Santis is a fascist.
Hmm.
I wouldn't get too afraid of the F word for where the GOP are heading. Eg they're intent on putting election deniers in charge of elections. People who believe the Republicans losing is proof of a fraudulent vote. In charge of the vote. Deeply suboptimal.
Trump is going to declare he will run again after the midterms
I wonder if there is a difference in fash danger level between countries where support for strongman authoritarianism is mainly among the old, and those where it’s the young.
The former generally seems to reflect nostalgic rural oldies who are reasonably financially comfortable but uneasy with the direction of society. Apparent in Russia with support for Putin, MAGA in the US, the Ayatollahs in Iran.
The latter seems the case in France with RN, India with Modi and in some of the Scandinavian and E European countries.
Gerontocratic authoritarianism self-cancelling, young authoritarianism naturally growing?
To be fair a lot of young people at Trump rallies too...as the young get poorer they will turn to extremes
A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
I think we should look at the failings of the Home Office to process people quickly and to deport those who should be deported quickly and to run these detention centres in a sensible way. The people at the top, Braverman, Patel, should take responsibility for their failings.
The asylum process needs to be streamlined. I’d limit to one appeal, for example, and provide more bandwidth.
Deportation is very difficult unless the individual cooperates - you need to prove where they came from. That’s actually how I’d use Rwanda… if you don’t tell us where you came from we will pay Rwanda to take you…
A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
Why in the name of God would you deduce from my posting the story that I think any of that?
“So it begins” implies that you think that the government should give way
No it does not. It could equally imply I thought we should be napalming them.
Excellent start. All about staying focused, keeping cool and closing it out! 👍
Why can you guys not keep your mouths shut?!!!
You could all focus on watching the men tapping a ball away with a stick and then running up and down while someone else goes to fetch it, and leave the rest of us untroubled by all the gripping details...
To be fair that’s pretty much what you do with your dog 😂
Not today, sadly (although constant rain would have kept the ball away anyhow); he's unhappy in kennels while I am I unhappy in Southampton being minutes away from having a camera pushed down my throat...
Good luck. But your gastroenterologist should really be using Alicam.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
On topic of young people not wanting to work i wonder if rising levels of female obesity affect young mens motivation to work hard...after all if the prize is on the obese side maybe you say screw that ill play video games
A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
Why in the name of God would you deduce from my posting the story that I think any of that?
“So it begins” implies that you think that the government should give way
No it does not. It could equally imply I thought we should be napalming them.
Based on your posting history I can imagine you’d like to napalm the government
Yesterday’s @thetimes /@YouGov polling found that many Leavers think Sunak is a Remainer, but most Remainers know he’s a Brexiteer. That’s a dangerous place to be ahead of any general election, when more people (green line) think in hindsight quitting the EU was a mistake. https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1588846276560715777/photo/1
How can they think Sunak is a Remainer ? Further highlights that the Leave vote was made up by a lot of low information voters.
'Remainer" no longer means someone who voted against Brexit, but now refers to someone unwilling to deny reality, or who likes facts, or who makes the mistake of listening to an 'expert'. Merely voting for Brexit isn't sufficient to remove the stain of remainery from someone who displays judgement and common sense in other aspects of their life.
A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
Why in the name of God would you deduce from my posting the story that I think any of that?
“So it begins” implies that you think that the government should give way
@IshmaelZ has been predicting civil unrest on the migration issue. I took “so it begins” to mean that
De Santis has done everything in his power to overturn this result...
And DeSantis boasts about this.
De Santis is a fascist.
Hmm.
I wouldn't get too afraid of the F word for where the GOP are heading. Eg they're intent on putting election deniers in charge of elections. People who believe the Republicans losing is proof of a fraudulent vote. In charge of the vote. Deeply suboptimal.
Trump is going to declare he will run again after the midterms
Yes. I've bet on that at average 1.45 and expect to collect. But I've laid him for the Nom and the WH. Those bets are underwater bigtime atm. He'll probably go 1.75 for the Nom and dip under 4 for the WH after he announces. If so I'll lay a bit more. His road is rocky.
Yesterday’s @thetimes /@YouGov polling found that many Leavers think Sunak is a Remainer, but most Remainers know he’s a Brexiteer. That’s a dangerous place to be ahead of any general election, when more people (green line) think in hindsight quitting the EU was a mistake. https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1588846276560715777/photo/1
How can they think Sunak is a Remainer ? Further highlights that the Leave vote was made up by a lot of low information voters.
Seems pretty niche info to me given he was a 1 year standing backbencher at the time of the vote. I didn't know one way or the other, and now that I do I am inclined to think 60/40 it was a career position not a deeply held conviction.
A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
Why in the name of God would you deduce from my posting the story that I think any of that?
“So it begins” implies that you think that the government should give way
@IshmaelZ has been predicting civil unrest on the migration issue. I took “so it begins” to mean that
No people are still too comfortable....old boomers like to moan but they wont do anything
"Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ Substack 24. Britain has lost control of its borders and the liberal minority has lost touch with what much of the rest of the country are thinking And this will soon have a profound impact on our politics
OT, the weather today is biblically awful. November is God’s punishment for something.
Whereabouts? It's okay in Brentwood which is where I am atm.
November is a month with no redeeming qualities..dark nights that get darker and miserable weather...the worst month of the year
No sun — no moon! No morn — no noon — No dawn — no dusk — no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member — No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! — November!
Thomas Hood
ETA but I will take it over Jan/Feb/Mar/most of Apr
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
On topic of young people not wanting to work i wonder if rising levels of female obesity affect young mens motivation to work hard...after all if the prize is on the obese side maybe you say screw that ill play video games
A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
Why in the name of God would you deduce from my posting the story that I think any of that?
“So it begins” implies that you think that the government should give way
@IshmaelZ has been predicting civil unrest on the migration issue. I took “so it begins” to mean that
No people are still too comfortable....old boomers like to moan but they wont do anything
Dust up in a Dublin suburb a couple of days ago, threats from a woman on a Norwich housing estate, leaks of hotels being repurposed. If it easn't in bad taste I would bet at evens on a proper fight on GB territory by Xmas.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
On topic of young people not wanting to work i wonder if rising levels of female obesity affect young mens motivation to work hard...after all if the prize is on the obese side maybe you say screw that ill play video games
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
On topic of young people not wanting to work i wonder if rising levels of female obesity affect young mens motivation to work hard...after all if the prize is on the obese side maybe you say screw that ill play video games
All these Chinese girls are slender as the yarrow stalk, of course
Maybe it’s just a case of them staying normally slim whereas everyone else has gotten fat?
Could be a bit of that, but there is something else at work. When I went to the ICE CAVE OF VATNAJOKULL we met a tour group of these young Chinese tourists coming the other way, delicately stepping across the glacier. The group was 80% female and, of them, 60% were ravishingly pretty
It was like encountering a Parisian cat walk at the North Pole
"Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ Substack 24. Britain has lost control of its borders and the liberal minority has lost touch with what much of the rest of the country are thinking And this will soon have a profound impact on our politics
Dont know whether hes deliberately stirring the pot there....concerns about immigration come and go...apparently the british were hopping mad about immigration in 2004 yet net migration has been over 300000 a year since...
"Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ Substack 24. Britain has lost control of its borders and the liberal minority has lost touch with what much of the rest of the country are thinking And this will soon have a profound impact on our politics
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it. Maybe Xi has ordered all the plain ones to stay home, to promote China’s image abroad
We were worried that you had visited Iceland for the natural splendour of glaciers and volcanoes.
It is comforting to know that you are actually there for the Hot Teen Girls.
Hot Co-eds surely?
We have lots of Chinese students in Leicester at both Universities, and I agree they are a good looking bunch. In part it is that they dress well, in designer clothes that suit their figures, though generally the male students dress poorly. This does make them stand out in Britain, where most people dress badly. Similarly we'll groomed and made up.
I think the reason that rich women are considered better looking is in part better diet when young, better physical fitness, better skin from not smoking, etc; but also because society has certain predjuces against some styles as much as it does against some accents.
Being British, we are very class conscious and can generally assess someone's social class by how they dress, how they speak, their hair-style, their manners, and generally higher class is higher rated.
Tory MPs — including some in the Cabinet — are worried the Sunak/Hunt tax rises and spending cuts will go too far, killing off growth and their electoral prospects
One Cabinet minister says Sunak risks managing UK decline
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
If you watch much Asian TV drama, you'll see a very similar effect over the last decade.
That’s fascinating, thanks
You could well be right. The wiki page even mentions students:
“Students make up the bulk of cosmetic surgery patients under 30 and estimates show that there are 20 million people in China who have had cosmetic surgery.[citation needed] In 2014 alone, over 7 million people, mostly young women, had cosmetic surgery, when the country’s cosmetic surgery industry was valued at RMB400 billion”
Cosmetic surgery would also chime with their obvious wealth
Yesterday’s @thetimes /@YouGov polling found that many Leavers think Sunak is a Remainer, but most Remainers know he’s a Brexiteer. That’s a dangerous place to be ahead of any general election, when more people (green line) think in hindsight quitting the EU was a mistake. https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1588846276560715777/photo/1
How can they think Sunak is a Remainer ? Further highlights that the Leave vote was made up by a lot of low information voters.
'Remainer" no longer means someone who voted against Brexit, but now refers to someone unwilling to deny reality, or who likes facts, or who makes the mistake of listening to an 'expert'. Merely voting for Brexit isn't sufficient to remove the stain of remainery from someone who displays judgement and common sense in other aspects of their life.
Hence the bizarro situation where Truss (who campaigned for Remain and made decent points on the benefits for Britons being able to move freely across Europe) was seen as a better Leaver than Sunak (who campaigned for it before it was trendy).
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
On topic of young people not wanting to work i wonder if rising levels of female obesity affect young mens motivation to work hard...after all if the prize is on the obese side maybe you say screw that ill play video games
All these Chinese girls are slender as the yarrow stalk, of course
Maybe it’s just a case of them staying normally slim whereas everyone else has gotten fat?
Could be a bit of that, but there is something else at work. When I went to the ICE CAVE OF VATNAJOKULL we met a tour group of these young Chinese tourists coming the other way, delicately stepping across the glacier. The group was 80% female and, of them, 60% were ravishingly pretty
It was like encountering a Parisian cat walk at the North Pole
We could launch an anti obesity drive amongst our young women to encourage the men to work
A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
I think we should look at the failings of the Home Office to process people quickly and to deport those who should be deported quickly and to run these detention centres in a sensible way. The people at the top, Braverman, Patel, should take responsibility for their failings.
The asylum process needs to be streamlined. I’d limit to one appeal, for example, and provide more bandwidth.
Deportation is very difficult unless the individual cooperates - you need to prove where they came from. That’s actually how I’d use Rwanda… if you don’t tell us where you came from we will pay Rwanda to take you…
Processing asylum claims and carrying out deportations were working fine some years ago. There had been a precipitous drop in performance. See, for example, the graphs at https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/deportation-and-voluntary-departure-from-the-uk/ These claims that the process needs streamlining or that it’s really hard are a distraction, excuses to deflect from operational problems. The problems began and continued under the Conservatives and their policies.
The problem isn’t the asylum rules or Albanians. The problem is that the Home Office under Patel and Braverman can’t do its job properly.
"Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ Substack 24. Britain has lost control of its borders and the liberal minority has lost touch with what much of the rest of the country are thinking And this will soon have a profound impact on our politics
A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
I think we should look at the failings of the Home Office to process people quickly and to deport those who should be deported quickly and to run these detention centres in a sensible way. The people at the top, Braverman, Patel, should take responsibility for their failings.
The asylum process needs to be streamlined. I’d limit to one appeal, for example, and provide more bandwidth.
Deportation is very difficult unless the individual cooperates - you need to prove where they came from. That’s actually how I’d use Rwanda… if you don’t tell us where you came from we will pay Rwanda to take you…
As I pointed out last night, we used in 2012to deport 5 times as many as recent years. All that time we have had harsh Tory Home Secretaries. This was true even before covid and Brexit. Laws haven't become more lax.
I put it down to austerity related cuts in the Home Office and immigration service. Want an effective service, then it has to be paid for. If you aren't willing to pay, then shut up and take it.
"Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ Substack 24. Britain has lost control of its borders and the liberal minority has lost touch with what much of the rest of the country are thinking And this will soon have a profound impact on our politics
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it. Maybe Xi has ordered all the plain ones to stay home, to promote China’s image abroad
We were worried that you had visited Iceland for the natural splendour of glaciers and volcanoes.
It is comforting to know that you are actually there for the Hot Teen Girls.
Hot Co-eds surely?
We have lots of Chinese students in Leicester at both Universities, and I agree they are a good looking bunch. In part it is that they dress well, in designer clothes that suit their figures, though generally the male students dress poorly. This does make them stand out in Britain, where most people dress badly. Similarly we'll groomed and made up.
I think the reason that rich women are considered better looking is in part better diet when young, better physical fitness, better skin from not smoking, etc; but also because society has certain predjuces against some styles as much as it does against some accents.
Being British, we are very class conscious and can generally assess someone's social class by how they dress, how they speak, their hair-style, their manners, and generally higher class is higher rated.
Off topic, but important: "Researchers in Britain say they have used genetic sequencing to help cure a man who was infected with the coronavirus for more than 411 days.
Probably easier to do Republican stuff if you're not being exposed to all that "who is my neighbour?" talk on a regular basis.
Isn’t that pretty much the story of religion in the developed world? In my own bit, in my experience hardcore Protestants have neither interest in or knowledge of the religious element of their identity. Catholics have a more sentimental attachment to the rituals but pretty sure all the ones I know haven’t been to mass for decades. The only part of my world in which folk seem religiously observant is the Outer Hebrides.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
If you watch much Asian TV drama, you'll see a very similar effect over the last decade.
That’s fascinating, thanks
You could well be right. The wiki page even mentions students:
“Students make up the bulk of cosmetic surgery patients under 30 and estimates show that there are 20 million people in China who have had cosmetic surgery.[citation needed] In 2014 alone, over 7 million people, mostly young women, had cosmetic surgery, when the country’s cosmetic surgery industry was valued at RMB400 billion”
Cosmetic surgery would also chime with their obvious wealth
Somewhat related - one of the first things the female Chinese students do when they arrive in my neck of the woods is head off to the chemists to buy skin whitening creams. As I understand it they are either banned or restricted back home. Make yourself seem even more wealthy/elite/upper-class with pale skin.
A group of people at a west London immigration removal centre caused "disturbance" on Saturday morning, the Home Office has claimed.
No one was injured during the incident at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, but the power was still out just before 9am on Saturday, the department said.
The Home Office initially claimed that a "group of detainees left their rooms" and went into a courtyard area "armed with various weaponry", but later withdrew that claim.
Sky News- breaking
So it begins
These are people who have been ordered by a court to be detained, or who are in the asylum process but deemed to be a flight risk.
Do you believe that we should let them go on the grounds that they are prepared to used violence (and weapons) to achieve their objective? Do you believe that makes them more or less attractive to the UK as an immigrant?
I think we should look at the failings of the Home Office to process people quickly and to deport those who should be deported quickly and to run these detention centres in a sensible way. The people at the top, Braverman, Patel, should take responsibility for their failings.
The asylum process needs to be streamlined. I’d limit to one appeal, for example, and provide more bandwidth.
Deportation is very difficult unless the individual cooperates - you need to prove where they came from. That’s actually how I’d use Rwanda… if you don’t tell us where you came from we will pay Rwanda to take you…
As I pointed out last night, we used in 2012to deport 5 times as many as recent years. All that time we have had harsh Tory Home Secretaries. This was true even before covid and Brexit. Laws haven't become more lax.
I put it down to austerity related cuts in the Home Office and immigration service. Want an effective service, then it has to be paid for. If you aren't willing to pay, then shut up and take it.
Of course legalisation of drugs may help as many of the migrants are looking to work in the drugs trade...of course without legal.immigration the health servicecwould collapse which many old gammons dont seem to understand
Probably easier to do Republican stuff if you're not being exposed to all that "who is my neighbour?" talk on a regular basis.
Isn’t that pretty much the story of religion in the developed world? In my own bit, in my experience hardcore Protestants have neither interest in or knowledge of the religious element of their identity. Catholics have a more sentimental attachment to the rituals but pretty sure all the ones I know haven’t been to mass for decades. The only part of my world in which folk seem religiously observant is the Outer Hebrides.
People know they believe, but seem generally confused as to what they believe.
Always true to a degree I suppose, normal people not being particularly entranced by arcane theological philosophising, but even the basic tenets or adherence seems slipped without denting fervour in some.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it. Maybe Xi has ordered all the plain ones to stay home, to promote China’s image abroad
We were worried that you had visited Iceland for the natural splendour of glaciers and volcanoes.
It is comforting to know that you are actually there for the Hot Teen Girls.
Hot Co-eds surely?
We have lots of Chinese students in Leicester at both Universities, and I agree they are a good looking bunch. In part it is that they dress well, in designer clothes that suit their figures, though generally the male students dress poorly. This does make them stand out in Britain, where most people dress badly. Similarly we'll groomed and made up.
I think the reason that rich women are considered better looking is in part better diet when young, better physical fitness, better skin from not smoking, etc; but also because society has certain predjuces against some styles as much as it does against some accents.
Being British, we are very class conscious and can generally assess someone's social class by how they dress, how they speak, their hair-style, their manners, and generally higher class is higher rated.
"Being British, we are very class conscious..."
Is that still really a thing?
Just look at PB. Some posters bounce up and down with fury worse than the neighbours' weans on their trampoline if you dare to suggest that "public" [sic] schools are a bad thing, should pay their fair share of rates, etc. Ditto the idea of taxing the Tory rentiers on their capital either in life or at death. And at least one poster regularly praises the system of having Old Etonian MPs and wants to go back to the good old days of Tory squirearchies and serfs in the shires.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
If you watch much Asian TV drama, you'll see a very similar effect over the last decade.
That’s fascinating, thanks
You could well be right. The wiki page even mentions students:
“Students make up the bulk of cosmetic surgery patients under 30 and estimates show that there are 20 million people in China who have had cosmetic surgery.[citation needed] In 2014 alone, over 7 million people, mostly young women, had cosmetic surgery, when the country’s cosmetic surgery industry was valued at RMB400 billion”
Cosmetic surgery would also chime with their obvious wealth
Somewhat related - one of the first things the female Chinese students do when they arrive in my neck of the woods is head off to the chemists to buy skin whitening creams. As I understand it they are either banned or restricted back home. Make yourself seem even more wealthy/elite/upper-class with pale skin.
Another handful of runs and England might have been struggling. They are not playing with the usual swagger.
Not too sure about that, it seemed to be a huge change in mindset caused by getting down to below a run a ball, barely looking for boundaries after that point.
"Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ Substack 24. Britain has lost control of its borders and the liberal minority has lost touch with what much of the rest of the country are thinking And this will soon have a profound impact on our politics
Dont know whether hes deliberately stirring the pot there....concerns about immigration come and go...apparently the british were hopping mad about immigration in 2004 yet net migration has been over 300000 a year since...
I can't be bothered to check, but iirc, he was tweeting about relaxed Brits have become about migration only a few months ago.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it. Maybe Xi has ordered all the plain ones to stay home, to promote China’s image abroad
We were worried that you had visited Iceland for the natural splendour of glaciers and volcanoes.
It is comforting to know that you are actually there for the Hot Teen Girls.
Hot Co-eds surely?
We have lots of Chinese students in Leicester at both Universities, and I agree they are a good looking bunch. In part it is that they dress well, in designer clothes that suit their figures, though generally the male students dress poorly. This does make them stand out in Britain, where most people dress badly. Similarly we'll groomed and made up.
I think the reason that rich women are considered better looking is in part better diet when young, better physical fitness, better skin from not smoking, etc; but also because society has certain predjuces against some styles as much as it does against some accents.
Being British, we are very class conscious and can generally assess someone's social class by how they dress, how they speak, their hair-style, their manners, and generally higher class is higher rated.
Yesterday’s @thetimes /@YouGov polling found that many Leavers think Sunak is a Remainer, but most Remainers know he’s a Brexiteer. That’s a dangerous place to be ahead of any general election, when more people (green line) think in hindsight quitting the EU was a mistake. https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1588846276560715777/photo/1
How can they think Sunak is a Remainer ? Further highlights that the Leave vote was made up by a lot of low information voters.
'Remainer" no longer means someone who voted against Brexit, but now refers to someone unwilling to deny reality, or who likes facts, or who makes the mistake of listening to an 'expert'. Merely voting for Brexit isn't sufficient to remove the stain of remainery from someone who displays judgement and common sense in other aspects of their life.
Hence the bizarro situation where Truss (who campaigned for Remain and made decent points on the benefits for Britons being able to move freely across Europe) was seen as a better Leaver than Sunak (who campaigned for it before it was trendy).
As the late Queen fabulously and uncomfortably said to a bunch of bankers, 'the experts' in these cases have tended to get their predictions wrong more than right. In the latest case of 'liking facts' we have portraying Truss and Kwarteng as mad for not aligning their budget with OBR forecasts - but the OBR forecasts have never been correct.
Tory MPs — including some in the Cabinet — are worried the Sunak/Hunt tax rises and spending cuts will go too far, killing off growth and their electoral prospects
One Cabinet minister says Sunak risks managing UK decline
I would argue that apart from brief moments of optimism under T Blair and Thatcher, successive UK PMs (incl those 2) have managed decline....... its a reality that British voters need to wake up to.
Relative decline has been the case since the 1870's.
But, it doesn't mean we've been getting poorer over that period.
"Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ Substack 24. Britain has lost control of its borders and the liberal minority has lost touch with what much of the rest of the country are thinking And this will soon have a profound impact on our politics
Dont know whether hes deliberately stirring the pot there....concerns about immigration come and go...apparently the british were hopping mad about immigration in 2004 yet net migration has been over 300000 a year since...
I can't be bothered to check, but iirc, he was tweeting about relaxed Brits have become about migration only a few months ago.
Shows the power of the media to stir things up...when boomers say they are hopping mad about immigration dont take them seriously. They were hopping mad in the early 2000s too.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it. Maybe Xi has ordered all the plain ones to stay home, to promote China’s image abroad
We were worried that you had visited Iceland for the natural splendour of glaciers and volcanoes.
It is comforting to know that you are actually there for the Hot Teen Girls.
Hot Co-eds surely?
We have lots of Chinese students in Leicester at both Universities, and I agree they are a good looking bunch. In part it is that they dress well, in designer clothes that suit their figures, though generally the male students dress poorly. This does make them stand out in Britain, where most people dress badly. Similarly we'll groomed and made up.
I think the reason that rich women are considered better looking is in part better diet when young, better physical fitness, better skin from not smoking, etc; but also because society has certain predjuces against some styles as much as it does against some accents.
Being British, we are very class conscious and can generally assess someone's social class by how they dress, how they speak, their hair-style, their manners, and generally higher class is higher rated.
"Being British, we are very class conscious..."
Is that still really a thing?
Not as much as people think it is.
Yes it is a thing, and most people know it, and it's even more predominant than most people think it is.
“Maybe Hitler got fucked up because his infancy was spent seeing various people in futuristic gear point a gun at him before going “no I can’t do it” and jumping into a portal”
Tory MPs — including some in the Cabinet — are worried the Sunak/Hunt tax rises and spending cuts will go too far, killing off growth and their electoral prospects
One Cabinet minister says Sunak risks managing UK decline
I would argue that apart from brief moments of optimism under T Blair and Thatcher, successive UK PMs (incl those 2) have managed decline....... its a reality that British voters need to wake up to.
Relative decline has been the case since the 1870's.
But, it doesn't mean we've been getting poorer over that period.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it. Maybe Xi has ordered all the plain ones to stay home, to promote China’s image abroad
We were worried that you had visited Iceland for the natural splendour of glaciers and volcanoes.
It is comforting to know that you are actually there for the Hot Teen Girls.
Hot Co-eds surely?
We have lots of Chinese students in Leicester at both Universities, and I agree they are a good looking bunch. In part it is that they dress well, in designer clothes that suit their figures, though generally the male students dress poorly. This does make them stand out in Britain, where most people dress badly. Similarly we'll groomed and made up.
I think the reason that rich women are considered better looking is in part better diet when young, better physical fitness, better skin from not smoking, etc; but also because society has certain predjuces against some styles as much as it does against some accents.
Being British, we are very class conscious and can generally assess someone's social class by how they dress, how they speak, their hair-style, their manners, and generally higher class is higher rated.
"Being British, we are very class conscious..."
Is that still really a thing?
Not as much as people think it is.
Yes it is a thing, and most people know it, and it's even more predominant than most people think it is.
We shall have to disagree to disagree. I think a small number of people are obsessed by class, and so see its tendrils reaching far wider than is now the case, being very self conscious about their own or others' supposed status.
I don't say there is nothing, but it is not the overwhelming thing some still seem to want it to be.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it. Maybe Xi has ordered all the plain ones to stay home, to promote China’s image abroad
We were worried that you had visited Iceland for the natural splendour of glaciers and volcanoes.
It is comforting to know that you are actually there for the Hot Teen Girls.
Hot Co-eds surely?
We have lots of Chinese students in Leicester at both Universities, and I agree they are a good looking bunch. In part it is that they dress well, in designer clothes that suit their figures, though generally the male students dress poorly. This does make them stand out in Britain, where most people dress badly. Similarly we'll groomed and made up.
I think the reason that rich women are considered better looking is in part better diet when young, better physical fitness, better skin from not smoking, etc; but also because society has certain predjuces against some styles as much as it does against some accents.
Being British, we are very class conscious and can generally assess someone's social class by how they dress, how they speak, their hair-style, their manners, and generally higher class is higher rated.
"Being British, we are very class conscious..."
Is that still really a thing?
Just look at PB. Some posters bounce up and down with fury worse than the neighbours' weans on their trampoline if you dare to suggest that "public" [sic] schools are a bad thing, should pay their fair share of rates, etc. Ditto the idea of taxing the Tory rentiers on their capital either in life or at death. And at least one poster regularly praises the system of having Old Etonian MPs and wants to go back to the good old days of Tory squirearchies and serfs in the shires.
Some? I think you have just written the CV of one precisely.
This is true, I think. If you're following a lot if different science stuff, it's become an outstanding resource. That is now at risk from people abandoning the platform.
“Maybe Hitler got fucked up because his infancy was spent seeing various people in futuristic gear point a gun at him before going “no I can’t do it” and jumping into a portal”
I have to say I am wary of accusing the richest man in the world that he doesn't know what he is doing re making money, but he doesn't appear to re twitter.
I was also shocked to find out that twitter only had about 7000 employees (now about 3000).
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it...
You've got older, so pretty young girls look prettier to you.
If that was the case I would similarly fancy all the young British or American women here. I don’t
If you watch much Asian TV drama, you'll see a very similar effect over the last decade.
That’s fascinating, thanks
You could well be right. The wiki page even mentions students:
“Students make up the bulk of cosmetic surgery patients under 30 and estimates show that there are 20 million people in China who have had cosmetic surgery.[citation needed] In 2014 alone, over 7 million people, mostly young women, had cosmetic surgery, when the country’s cosmetic surgery industry was valued at RMB400 billion”
Cosmetic surgery would also chime with their obvious wealth
Somewhat related - one of the first things the female Chinese students do when they arrive in my neck of the woods is head off to the chemists to buy skin whitening creams. As I understand it they are either banned or restricted back home. Make yourself seem even more wealthy/elite/upper-class with pale skin.
Thats a big thing in se asia too
Whitenicious skin cream is consumed a lot in the USA too.
For many it's not so much about appearing rich or elite, but exploitation and encouragement no. 70345 relating to women's lack of confidence about their looks, this time with an underlying racial theme which is very unpleasant because if someone thinks beauty is more prevalent in one ethnic group than another then they are a narrow-minded idiot at best (and at worst an out-and-out racist). The marketing doesn't explicitly say "Look like a white woman". It says things like this will help you deal with your skin blemishes.
On a tangent: the country with highest prevalence of cosmetic surgery is surely Venezuela, where "beauty" competitions are like a national plague, rife all over the place, and from a young age too.
OT, the weather today is biblically awful. November is God’s punishment for something.
Whereabouts? It's okay in Brentwood which is where I am atm.
November is a month with no redeeming qualities..dark nights that get darker and miserable weather...the worst month of the year
The advantage of November is that it gets very dark, but the temperatures have not yet caught up, and so it's not too cold. Therefore ideal for star-watching.
Switched on GB News to find 2 Tory MPs presenting a show. Philip Davies and Esther McVey.
What's your average time between Switch On and Switch Off for GB News?
Mine's 3.5 seconds or so - pretty quick - but my record is an incredible 0.23.
Mine is better - I do not switch it on in the first place
Darren Grimes has been sacked so gb news lose woke points now
No idea who he is and frankly not interested
A chav in a tie who spouts non-stop alt-right bollocks from Twitter direct to the homes of gammony boomers on GB News and looks like a skinny, middle-aged lesbian despite being cis-male.
This is true, I think. If you're following a lot if different science stuff, it's become an outstanding resource. That is now at risk from people abandoning the platform.
If there's not a replacement for the good things about Twitter, then it will presumably survive, but battered and disrupted for a time.
Musk never seems to worry about disruption, so I assume feels able to make gambles.
Last weeks four from me had a torrid time, but still no worse than the winless Cheltenham weekend that I fortunately didn’t share tips publicly. I’m out of form. 😧
But having watched Rogue Heroes this week - it’s only she who dares wins 🫡
1.01 Aintree Milan Bridge
1.15 Wincanton Hang In There - form and distance
1.50 Wincanton Cap Du Nord - longish shot to beat Frodon
Switched on GB News to find 2 Tory MPs presenting a show. Philip Davies and Esther McVey.
What's your average time between Switch On and Switch Off for GB News?
Mine's 3.5 seconds or so - pretty quick - but my record is an incredible 0.23.
Mine is better - I do not switch it on in the first place
Darren Grimes has been sacked so gb news lose woke points now
No idea who he is and frankly not interested
A chav in a tie who spouts non-stop alt-right bollocks from Twitter direct to the homes of gammony boomers on GB News and looks like a skinny, middle-aged lesbian despite being cis-male.
Observation. Iceland is full of young Chinese tourists. I’ve seen them across the country. They are obviously wealthy, with expensive winter clothes
I’ve been told they are generally “affluent Chinese students studying in the UK”
The young women are the most beautiful I have ever seen, as a group. More than 50% are stunning. There must be some genetic/evolutionary explanation but I’m still working on it. Maybe Xi has ordered all the plain ones to stay home, to promote China’s image abroad
We were worried that you had visited Iceland for the natural splendour of glaciers and volcanoes.
It is comforting to know that you are actually there for the Hot Teen Girls.
Hot Co-eds surely?
We have lots of Chinese students in Leicester at both Universities, and I agree they are a good looking bunch. In part it is that they dress well, in designer clothes that suit their figures, though generally the male students dress poorly. This does make them stand out in Britain, where most people dress badly. Similarly we'll groomed and made up.
I think the reason that rich women are considered better looking is in part better diet when young, better physical fitness, better skin from not smoking, etc; but also because society has certain predjuces against some styles as much as it does against some accents.
Being British, we are very class conscious and can generally assess someone's social class by how they dress, how they speak, their hair-style, their manners, and generally higher class is higher rated.
"Being British, we are very class conscious..."
Is that still really a thing?
Just look at PB. Some posters bounce up and down with fury worse than the neighbours' weans on their trampoline if you dare to suggest that "public" [sic] schools are a bad thing, should pay their fair share of rates, etc. Ditto the idea of taxing the Tory rentiers on their capital either in life or at death. And at least one poster regularly praises the system of having Old Etonian MPs and wants to go back to the good old days of Tory squirearchies and serfs in the shires.
Some? I think you have just written the CV of one precisely.
Oh, there's more than that. But yes, come to think of it.
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First guess: post-furlough, Sunak is seen as the boring, spreadsheety "you can't have something for nothing" type. And in 2016, that was the Remain approach.
And part of the story of 2016 and 2019 was voting for optimism over arithmetic. Not all of it, but a part of it-maybe a decisive part.
Unfortunately, arithmetic isn't changed by the will of the people.
Anyone else noticed how crazy expensive long haul flights have got. Early Dec flights to Sydney £1800 to £2000, Bangkok £1200. Even Dubai 700 to 800
Deportation is very difficult unless the individual cooperates - you need to prove where they came from. That’s actually how I’d use Rwanda… if you don’t tell us where you came from we will pay Rwanda to take you…
Insane prices just for one way. I decided to stick with my free flight as it stands
Airline travel is surging in price. Seems to be a mix of demand and supply issues
@IshmaelZ has been predicting civil unrest on the migration issue. I took “so it begins” to mean that
*googles flights to Gran Canaria*
@GoodwinMJ
Substack 24. Britain has lost control of its borders and the liberal minority has lost touch with what much of the rest of the country are thinking
And this will soon have a profound impact on our politics
mattgoodwin.substack.com
9:30 AM · Nov 5, 2022"
https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1588826008236732416
That’s tempting
https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-longest-periods-of-british-summer.html?m=1
Mine's 3.5 seconds or so - pretty quick - but my record is an incredible 0.23.
Routine for the children of the affluent in several Asian countries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmetic_surgery_in_China
If you watch much Asian TV drama, you'll see a very similar effect over the last decade.
Maybe it’s just a case of them staying normally slim whereas everyone else has gotten fat?
Could be a bit of that, but there is something else at work. When I went to the ICE CAVE OF VATNAJOKULL we met a tour group of these young Chinese tourists coming the other way, delicately stepping across the glacier. The group was 80% female and, of them, 60% were ravishingly pretty
It was like encountering a Parisian cat walk at the North Pole
We have lots of Chinese students in Leicester at both Universities, and I agree they are a good looking bunch. In part it is that they dress well, in designer clothes that suit their figures, though generally the male students dress poorly. This does make them stand out in Britain, where most people dress badly. Similarly we'll groomed and made up.
I think the reason that rich women are considered better looking is in part better diet when young, better physical fitness, better skin from not smoking, etc; but also because society has certain predjuces against some styles as much as it does against some accents.
Being British, we are very class conscious and can generally assess someone's social class by how they dress, how they speak, their hair-style, their manners, and generally higher class is higher rated.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_complex
You could well be right. The wiki page even mentions students:
“Students make up the bulk of cosmetic surgery patients under 30 and estimates show that there are 20 million people in China who have had cosmetic surgery.[citation needed] In 2014 alone, over 7 million people, mostly young women, had cosmetic surgery, when the country’s cosmetic surgery industry was valued at RMB400 billion”
Cosmetic surgery would also chime with their obvious wealth
The problem isn’t the asylum rules or Albanians. The problem is that the Home Office under Patel and Braverman can’t do its job properly.
I put it down to austerity related cuts in the Home Office and immigration service. Want an effective service, then it has to be paid for. If you aren't willing to pay, then shut up and take it.
Is that still really a thing?
They are not playing with the usual swagger.
The 59-year-old patient, who had a weakened immune system due to a kidney transplant and the use of an immunosuppressant drug, initially tested positive in December 2020."
source$: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/11/04/chronic-covid-uk-cure-genomic/
Nice work. (As I understand it, some researchers believe that such patients may be the sources of new variants -- which is no something we need.)
https://youtu.be/RcnQ9imDrWk
Always true to a degree I suppose, normal people not being particularly entranced by arcane theological philosophising, but even the basic tenets or adherence seems slipped without denting fervour in some.
But, it doesn't mean we've been getting poorer over that period.
Korean products are outstandingly good, and the consumer spend on them is significantly greater than over here.
“Maybe Hitler got fucked up because his infancy was spent seeing various people in futuristic gear point a gun at him before going “no I can’t do it” and jumping into a portal”
https://twitter.com/jordbrookes/status/1588193975055310851?s=46&t=fHL7HgqXG7leatvhrzUvAA
I don't say there is nothing, but it is not the overwhelming thing some still seem to want it to be.
Overall, I think the global Twitter community is a major knowledge hub, which showed its worth during the pandemic, and it is difficult to replace with current alternatives.
https://mobile.twitter.com/M_B_Petersen/status/1588793614528040960
This is true, I think.
If you're following a lot if different science stuff, it's become an outstanding resource.
That is now at risk from people abandoning the platform.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1588714014749904896
I was also shocked to find out that twitter only had about 7000 employees (now about 3000).
For many it's not so much about appearing rich or elite, but exploitation and encouragement no. 70345 relating to women's lack of confidence about their looks, this time with an underlying racial theme which is very unpleasant because if someone thinks beauty is more prevalent in one ethnic group than another then they are a narrow-minded idiot at best (and at worst an out-and-out racist). The marketing doesn't explicitly say "Look like a white woman". It says things like this will help you deal with your skin blemishes.
On a tangent: the country with highest prevalence of cosmetic surgery is surely Venezuela, where "beauty" competitions are like a national plague, rife all over the place, and from a young age too.
Musk never seems to worry about disruption, so I assume feels able to make gambles.
Last weeks four from me had a torrid time, but still no worse than the winless Cheltenham weekend that I fortunately didn’t share tips publicly. I’m out of form. 😧
But having watched Rogue Heroes this week - it’s only she who dares wins 🫡
1.01 Aintree
Milan Bridge
1.15 Wincanton
Hang In There - form and distance
1.50 Wincanton
Cap Du Nord - longish shot to beat Frodon
2.11 Aintree
Lifetime Ambition