It seems odd to say that Social Security and Medicare cuts are “off the table” for Republicans when Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill contains massive cuts to the US welfare state. (View Post)

Populism (right or left) loves to blame someone else. It’s them, over there, with their gold-plated pensions, or immigrants, or Muslims, or Jews, or just all over, generalised, woke. (View Post)

See fig. 7 at https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/deportation-and-voluntary-departure-from-the-uk/ Chinese people make up 8% of deportations from the UK. (View Post)

You can self-identify. Your children can tick the White British box on a form if they want to. I tick White British even though one grandparent was Dutch. It’s the Matthew Goodwins of this world who … (View Post)

I think I’ve stayed in a hotel for one night in the last 2 years. Which was for work. It was not 4*. Asylum seekers are housed in a range of accommodation. None of it is luxurious. Some of it is in h… (View Post)