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Jul 22, 2023
The UK is weird in not having an ID system. There is no central register of residents or citizens. People prove their identity through random documents (driving licences, utility bills), and businesses check against incomplete databases (esp credit rating agencies,)
This was recognised as a problem in the '00s, and the Blair government tried to bring in national identification cards. But on coming to power, the Conservatives scrapped the idea. The concept has been a dead letter since. Image
Second: the UK does not systematically collect data on people entering and leaving the country. Many regular border crossings aren't centrally recorded.

To be clear: unless you fly in, it's perfectly possible to cross the British border undetected. Image
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May 17, 2023
I occasionally still ruminate on the frankly weird choices of personnel at the top of the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign. The remain campaign was a very serious matter, and you would assume they'd have the top talent... Image
Instead, as Executive Director, you had Will Straw: a failed Labour candidate who had never won an election, and whose main qualifications were 1) Having a blog and 2) Being Jack Straw's son Image
For Director of Strategy, you had Ryan Coetzee; whose only prior UK election was directing the strategy for the Liberal Democrats annihilation in 2015 Image
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May 16, 2023
This story is even more bizarre, and worse, than it seems.

Pretty much ever news outlet has just reprinted BTP's press release. The only one which actually covered the trial was a website run by Southbank University students

journalism.london/2023/05/abdulr…
Presumably because they actually turned up to the courthouse, they were able to report that Hersi had three previous convictions for sexual assault, and was on licence for one of these offences at the time of this incident
He already had a Sexual Harm Prevention Order! But this was not enough to earn him more than nine months in prison (remember reader, convicts only spend half their sentence inside)
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Nov 22, 2022
I visited Taiwan, where the bin lorries drive the streets playing music like an ice cream van. When they arrived at a particular street, the residents came out of their houses to deposit their recycling…
Witnessing this, I was immediately transported back to my then home in east London, where the street were littered with mattresses and empty cans of cooking oil.

Taipei, on paper a poorer city than London, was an important inflection point on my political development
Previously I had thought of freedom/order as trade offs in a Liberal, social democratic sense. But in Taipei, where I felt safer as a foreigner at midnight than on my own street in daylight, I started to realise that freedom is largely a product of order and security
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Oct 11, 2022
If you use Wikipedia, you've seen pop-ups like this. If you're like me, you may have donated as a result.

Wikipedia is an amazing website, and the appeals seem heartfelt. But I've now learnt the money isn't going where I thought... ImageImage
The organisation which administers Wikipedia - to whom the money goes - is the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Wikimedia is a San Francisco non-profit with 400 employees - which has exploded in size in recent years. Image
In a decade, Wikimedia's spending has soared: from $10 million in 2010 to $112 million by 2020.
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Sep 25, 2022
Following the death of Chris Kaba, a Guardian editorial and podcast spoke at length about the Met Police's supposed habit of killing unarmed black men. They identified three predecessors:
1) Azelle Rodney
2) Mark Duggan
3) Jermaine Baker
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1) Azelle Rodney was a career criminal. When he was killed, he was already on the run for a double stabbing. One of the men with him would later claim Rodney controlled the crack production operation they ran together. Image
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