What’s the Point of a Points Based System?
You will have seen that both of the pro-Brexit factions – the Tory dominated VoteLeave and the UKIP dominated Leave.eu – want to introduce what they call an “Australian-style points based immigration system” in the event that we leave the EU. That we should leave is profoundly to be desired for all sorts of reasons which have already been well rehearsed on Western Spring, but not least because a country which cannot control its borders…
“Racial Prejudice”
By Frederick Dixon: Does anyone remember “racial prejudice”? It was something we were supposed to deplore when I was at school, which was quite a long time ago. It came after “the colour bar” but before “racism” and seems to have meant roughly the same, whatever that was or is. Therein lies the problem, the phrase is of such infinite flexibility and vagueness that it can be made to fit almost any hint of racial…