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The Times reports that Patrick Mercer, Shadow Homeland Security Minister1, has come out with this gem:
“I had the good fortune to command a battalion that was racially very mixed. Towards the end, I had five company sergeant majors who were all black. They were without exception UK-born, Nottingham-born men who were [...]
A brief thought on the debate that was going on a little while ago in the US about immigration. Given that the rallying cry of the revolution was ‘no taxation without representation’. Does this apply to (legal) immigrants and resident aliens who pay taxes, if through no means other than sales taxes? How about convicted [...]
I went past the LSE last Thursday. Nothing particularly special, except that it was election night in the Students’ Union. It was the first SU election since 2001 for which I did not attend the count. It was very strange going past - I would have liked to have attended, but I couldn’t. Beyond that, [...]
It is many years since I have studied Latin, but I am delighted to have found an online newspaper in Latin.
Ad scriptores Epheremis volo agere gratias. Ad blogae mea vinculum adjungavi.
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…is to make sure it is stringently enforced. A very large tip of the hat to Tim Ireland for this.
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I haven’t had a cigarette since Friday evening. I was using gum over the weekend and I put a nicotine patch on this morning. OK, you probably don’t want to know the details, but it’s ’so far, so good. I was a bit irritable over the weekend - a bit, not hugely - and the [...]
A good article from Red Pepper’s Know Your Enemy column on Migration Watch. You can use the link here, but it looks better if you go through the front page.
Hat-tip to Priya B.
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The Daily Mail is obsessed with house prices. Birth rates in Europe are falling, and in some states are already negative. Britain has largely avoided this trend (largely due to immigration). It is not immune; if current trends continue, it will start declining in population. This will mean less demand for housing, causing house price [...]
