This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.

I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2

There will be no going back on this. They are changing the social contract and once done it is hard to reverse. No one will touch for a generation. A massive social change for which there is no mandate

Mahmood used the term "Boriswave", which was created and popularised by the online hard right, to describe that group

The policy is designed to target people who arrived on the relaxed health and care worker visa and created what Home Office insiders call a "bulge" moving towards settlement

I'm afraid that's true. Ukraine is about to be abandoned, and we (Europe) will rue the day.

Migration in the 1980s: low (even negative in some years), and therefore a time of low (even negative in some years?) levels of racism?

Remember this chat early 80's directed at my half Nigerian father (b. 1942 in Edinburgh) and then by extension me a brown skinned, blonde haired child. Suggestion being that despite my 3 Scottish white grandparents, possession of a black one was disqualifying for being British. Not happy it's back

it is awful. I mean if there are too many people already here and they are not encouraged to leave by being unable to settle and and being impoverished by repeated visa fees then the logical next step is what Rupert Lowe is talking about.....

I use Kindle a lot for hardback. Mainly because they are heavy to carry if I am going out and want something to read on tube. Also find it good for holidays where I would generally read a book a day which used to be hard on the luggage limit! Still like a book so I do a mix