UK Politics Thread

[nosaj]

All the hearts.

[robmck]

@mindysan33

I’m curious what you think about this article

I will read that in a minute (when I make coffee!) but my general opinion is that people are Irish in the way, and when they feel that themselves and that’s it.

Also legally but that’s just process.

That means my family in NI, England, US, mainland Europe, Oz etc. etc. feel it differently to me and each other and they can be really proud of being Americans (because that multiple identities is surely what the dream of America means for a European immigrant) or my friends (and family) can be Nigerian or Indian or Brazilian as well, even primarily, and feel here is their home too.

I know Nancy felt at home here and was loved and lived here for a while.

ETA
I liked the article.

[Heikki]

@Heikki

Nan Eleven

It’s all true - the nans were planning up to forty Nine-Elevens. We talk about the wave of (largely) pensioner arrests this weekend and what it means for civil liberties, the homelessness minister doing a landlord whoopsie, and then we read an article about what it’s like to be gentrified out of your neighbourhood as a 0.1%er.

[timd]

BBC apologises after Robert Jenrick accused of xenophobia

BBC apologises for calling xenophobe a xenophobe.

[robmck]

Should they have stuck with the more demotic “racist prick”?

Would that have been an accurate “thought for the day”?

[timd]

I was hoping he would be the 8:10 interview.