The authorities are suspicious of spontaneous gatherings nowa days. Everything has to be organised and paid for. Unruly mobs of drunks are a great British tradition and a small price to pay for liber… (View Post)

It's just capitalism. They don't want people enjoying the view of the fireworks etc for free. When I was a student, Trafalgar Square etc was free and unticketed fun. As I recall one of the … (View Post)

His Hindutva politics are pretty seedy. It spills over in Leicester on occasions. His propaganda is pretty pernicious. All the most Islamophopic people I know IRL are Hindu. (View Post)

Presumably fraud is rather different to what we are discussing, fake documents, spurious weddings etc mean that the citizenship was granted incorrectly. I don't think there is any allegation of … (View Post)

One of the interesting things about the Begum case is that it allowed the government to remove her British citizenship on the grounds that she was eligible, but had never held, Bangladeshi citizenshi… (View Post)