Home Office quotas for resettling refugees are mean spirited and serve muddled political ends. Worst of all-for me - they're an offence to the generosity of millions of British citizens. @kenanmalik on the shambles in Afghanistan. theguardian.com/commentisfree…

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@thephilippics locates the weakness that led to the collapse of the Afghan state 'at the core of the global political system, and not in a remote imperial outpost'. Sharp and right to the point. spiked-online.com/2021/08/20/…

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@thephilippics While the Tories dismantle the neoliberal economy, Labour finds new ways of servicing demands for flexible working. Maybe not so new. I remember the Tories playing the same trick back in the '90s. theguardian.com/politics/2021…

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@cjbickerton explains how failure was structured into the E.U. vaccine programme and why it's important to learn from this. twitter.com/PeterRamsay201…

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"The influence of the SNP is the particular Scottish expression of the wider decay of British party politics". Compelling article by @PeterRamsay2011 in @tfbrexit on Scottish nationalism as a product of the political void. twitter.com/PeterRamsay201…

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