The only arguments against it from the UK that I have heard are that it might prevent the realisation of some sadistic xenophobic fantasy or other in individual cases. It’s all made to sound terribly serious and considered. It isn’t. It’s sick. It’s life imitating tabloids.

We have to get rid of all politicians who grew up in the Cold War. None live in the present.

They also don’t understand that anti-Americanism is a long far-right tradition in Europe. Nationalists are really nationalists. They are not extensions of MAGA. Similarly enmity with the US is a big thing for Russian imperialists. They will just see US overtures as naivety to be exploited.

That does seem to be the case

It is now clear that dual nationals must renew their UK passport, which includes sending in both passports or paying for a certified copy of all the empty visa pages of your other passport, not to be able to travel the world, but for the sole purpose of entering the UK.

Ideally we should pay equally much or little attention to all non-European media in the post-American era.

It also occurs to me that if you enter on a non-UK passport, beyond the border you’re just like any other British citizen without a passport while your terms of entry on the other passport is subject to a time limit. That may be theoretical for a short holiday, but it’s ambiguous nevertheless.

There is an obligation to have a whole passport for the sole purpose of entering the UK. At least, that is clear though.

Or they feel the end of the US era upon us and fear finding themselves all too obviously standing in the traitors’ corner, as once happened to Oswald Mosley.

On the other hand, from an EU pov, it would be handy if the UK did know what it wanted, as a starting point. I must say I’m getting bored following UK confusion when the USA and Russia questions are existential. I only still take an interest because I still have cross-border needs.

It’s a paradigm change that most people have understood. Leaders only instil confidence if they show that they have understood that and will act on it. We assume the UK govt knows the obvious and is limiting damage, but it has said nothing of the sort. It talks like a Cold War/anglosphere dinosaur.

The ECHR has fewer signatories than the UN Refugee Convention so I presume they see it as easier to change. It’s clearly the wrong instrument for what they want though.

The US is the very model of a decadent nation.

Being the leader of the modern British fascism movement seems to me to be a more important indictment than any schoolboy nastiness.

Gut-felt xenophobia gets on fine without intellectual, ideological or reasoned backing. A think tank based on that doesn’t need to exist.

There’s overtourism in Europe and the USA is only one source of tourists and it would likely lead to a deal with the USA.

Hostile measures should be reciprocated

It benefits them because it’s an ambiguous situation if they refuse entry to someone with a right to enter but without the document to prove it. They don’t want to be in that situation.