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Sticking asylum seekers in hotels is not the cheapest way to house these people when it’s running at circa 1.2m a day for the accommodation alone, and which does not include the additional costs of their, administration, weekly benefits, travel etc...

Specifically in energy costs terms we are simply reaping what we have sown, up to the 90s the U.K. was not importing any energy resources for its internal energy demands. However since then political priorities have changed and that has lead to a declining supply from the North Sea gas fields...

To be fair to Lamont he resisted being permanently drawn into the ERM as a precursor to the Maastricht treaty, which was the preference of John Major when he was chancellor and subsequently PM. Being able to manage Sterling was always a priority for Lamont, and to some extent the debacle of the...

Hmm, I think in France the expression is…………. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42724939 Plus ca change.

You should watch the recent BBC series on Dubai/UAE because that gaff’s attitude to climate change appears to be non existent. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/inside-dubai-bbc-review-what-thinking It was fascinating viewing for multiple reasons but primarily it was evident that this...

I don’t think it can be balanced economically/politically speaking; in recent years the U.K. hasn't reduced its demand on gas, and nor will it any time soon, if anything, given existing infrastructure, as the demand for electricity increases so will demand for gas (gas providing 40-50% of U.K...

I don’t doubt it, however I guess the only way to truly end Germany’s capacity to murder Jewish (and other groups) in its concentration camps was to defeat it totally by military means, which I think the Allied Powers did do as effectively as they could. Anne Frank and her family were betrayed...

In the early stages of the war you would be correct, however by the latter years bomber command could strike tactical targets in Germany with a high degree of accuracy, whether at night in by path finding unit or by day with mosquito. Blanket bombing was itself a strategic weapon in the...

Very true. If you are interested I would recommend the film “The sorrow and the pity” which evidences the depth of collaboration in France post 1940. In some parts of France the French rounded up French jews without any requests or demands by the Germans. Really shocking, and it was banned by...

If there is irrefutable data to support any of these statements, then any of these generalisations could be accurate. The 3rd question is interesting though, and I think (I don’t know) that as the generations pass so football will be the preference. Whilst England Cricket and Football continue...

If the “objective” is to raise academic standards for groups of school children that consistently underperform in comparison to another group, then referencing that a difference exists is essential. If the articulation and/or conveyance of that difference becomes so sensitive that we lose focus...

I would agree they are generalisations, I don’t think they represent “stereotypes”? The Government statistics very much support the statements, and so it would appear the nub of the concern here is that so long as individuals express trends and/or data which reference difference in ethnic...

Thanks a lot, you certainly provided me with food for thought during my exile from NSC. I definitely got the memo, and fully appreciate that the published racist and misogynistic tropes of acclaimed chart topping rap superstar artistes Krept and Konan are 100% censored on NSC. No biggie. No...

You can do the same in the educational outcomes of school children. Children of Indian and Chinese backgrounds out perform markedly children of Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds, they are all “Asian”. Children of African backgrounds outperform children of Afro Carribean backgrounds, they...

The reason racism persists is also ignorance of the past, the black person has been oppressed for far longer by the brown person from the Middle East than the white person, and for even longer than that by other fellow black persons. African slaves revolted in Persia during the Zanj rebellion...

If he was, with his lactose intolerance, he would have smelt like a farmyard………

The Mitre Tavern, Baker Street. Has RTV.

Who is they? In the US it’s laws around employment facilitate “affirmative action” in a way that doesn’t apply in the U.K. There is more scope for creating employment quotas especially in their equivalent civil service. In the U.K. the equality act very clearly prevents discrimination for...

I don’t think that’s right? The US and EU (when we were in it) started sanctions in 2013, and operating/construction tenders etc. were not filed till 2015, with construction starting in 2018? As for those involved not knowing about Putin, he’s been about since the 90s in various capacities...

Not in the slightest, we don’t live in the US so “affirmative action” as it is applied in the US is not enshrined in U.K. law……..hence they can apply the Rooney Rule in NFL. In the U.K. it is illegal to discriminate on jobs on grounds of race albeit the 2010 Equality Act in the U.K. does have...