Net migration in 1997 was 48,000 a year. It trebled to 140,000 a year in 1998, rising to 200,000 a year by 2000. There was another increase in 2004 and for the rest of Blair and Brown's premierships … (View Post)

You thinking of fast tracking them for British Nationality if they will play in the Ashes for us? Sound plan I think. ;) (View Post)

Blair Pasha. I wonder what Glubb would think of his successor. (View Post)

OT but loosely connected to that comment. Back in 2018 I was running a dig in Ancaster and at midday on the last day of the dig season - a Friday afternoon - we found an Anglo-Saxon cremation urn. We… (View Post)

If you think digital ID will in any way improve how HMRC responds to you then I have a bridge to sell you. It is not being able to identify yourself that makes our state systems shit, it is the inher… (View Post)