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🚢🇫🇷➡️🇬🇧Reports, eyewitness accounts and video footage have fuelled an increasingly uncomfortable accusation about what is happening in the English Channel: French authorities monitor migrant boats as they head out from France, they travel towards the middle of the Channel, and British rescue services then end up bringing people into the UK. If that account is…
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There is a long and noble British tradition of NIMBYism, but the fine citizens of Piddington have achieved something truly magnificent. Having exhausted the standard armoury of passive-aggressive parish council meetings, angry petitions, and solemn warnings about country traffic, Piddington campaigners opposing plans for a local asylum accommodation site have deployed Britain’s most formidable legal…
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Whitehall can easily ignore 358 furious local residents, a dozen angry letters to the editor, and a petition signed by everyone down at the parish hall. But the moment a four-inch amphibian with a high-visibility orange belly turns up on a surveyor’s clipboard, the entire apparatus of the British state hits the emergency brakes. The…

