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Amazingly, that applies as much in the UK as in France. But no-one seems to have noticed . . .

"They don't like it either, which is why they want to come here, surely this is glaringly obvious?" Yes, indeed. The 2024 African Youth Survey poll, released on Tuesday by fhe Johannesburg-based Ichikowitz Family Foundation found that, over the 16 African countries surveyed, almost 60% of young...

Because - unlike you - I've lived and worked in most of the countries they come from. And I did not appreciate the societies I was experiencing.

If France does not allow boat people 'rescued' off their shores to be landed safely, who's breaking the law?

Do what the Greeks do with Boat People from Turkey: put them back in their boat - with paddles, but without engne - in waters where the current will carry them to shore back in Turkey

"you don't have a right to land and drop them off at a country other than your own." ? From where did this bizarre idea come? Please read the UNCLOS literature on the Law of the Sea.

"immigration increases GDP" ? Yes, it increases total GDP; but not GDP per head – which what people actually care about. It almost certainly decreases that.

Those who equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism turn the majority* of the world from anti-Zionists into antisemites. Beware of getting what you want . . . . * Votes against Israeli behaviour in the UN General Assembly typically garner 130 - 150 votes in support, out of a total membership of...

"are not fighting for territory, they are fighting to exist. " ? Sounds awfully like what we were hearing from Germany in 1928 to 1933 . . . .

"anti-Semitic" ? NO; anti-Zionist.

"People on low incomes can be suckers . . . . " ? Home counties condescention, in a nutshell

Assist? Yes. But that does not preclude dropping them off - safely - back in France

"Starmer's very strong commitment to the Israeli extreme right" ? What else to you expect? Both Keir and wife Victoria are of the Faith, and observe Shabbat. And when in May it was last recorded, of the then Shadow Cabinet's 25 members, 17 were registered members of Labour Friends of...

So: how do we watch Trump blaming it [whatever "it" is] on the Dems? It's obviously a Trumpian storm: "AMERICA FIRST"

So: Storm Milton turned out to be a wash-out . . . .

Yes, it is fine. The Ukrainians have been subjected to external military violence. Syrians are being treated - or mistreated - by their own government. If they don't like it, they should do something about it. Not run away, and then complain.

For women, rather the opposite. Because they can use sexual attraction - whether promissed or performed - to gain agency over people smugglers. Reports - unconfirmed - are that women starting the trek from Africa or the Near East towards Europe frequently take a long-term contraceptive before...

Since when is the "Migration Observatory' "a more impartial source of information" than Migration Watch? Or simply more to your peculiar tastes?

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"so those Syrians fleeing Putin's bombs in Syria had to pay people smugglers and cross the water" ? There is no water between Syria and Turkey. Nor between Turkey and Bulgaria, Bulgaria and Roumania, Roumania and Poland, Poland and Germany, Germany and Holland, Holland and Belgium or Belgium...