Anyway: a drunken ramble. My algorithm has given me the once-favourite song* of a once-friend of mine and I am missing him intensely. He was the coolest kid in school, in retrospect - but unlike the … (View Post)

But to go back to Eagles' original question - why was there a riot about the murderer from Sudan but not the murderer from NI: the riots tend not to be about the crime itself, but about the poli… (View Post)

Well, effectively it is, because that’s what we have. It might be policy to wish it were otherwise, because government can’t think of a nice way of stopping it. If we were in a tank with water levels… (View Post)

In any case, I think the ‘roughly the same’ that Bondegezou points to might be a little misleading. This goes back again to the old chestnut about immigrants we wants (students from New Zealand/docto… (View Post)

Why should refugee status (and indeed ILR status) not be contingent on obeying the law? (View Post)