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23rd October, 2025: Six questions.
I think I need to make a polite phone call.
I had requested a visit for the group that delivers food bank parcels.
And … ?
Unfortunately, didn’t receive one.
Didn’t hear from them, even.
I’m not worried: today is payday, so I’ll be able to get some bread and milk.
But I’m wondering what happened …
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I like the idea that Britain should welcome migrants: both legal and otherwise.
I think, long term, it’s good for the UK: it potentially lowers the age of the population, and can raise more tax revenue.
What I have to laugh at?
Is the various attempts to stop illegal boat crossings across the English Channel: which has been going on for years.
I also laugh at the common assumption: that leaving the EU would stop these.
What’s more?
I laugh at there UK government’s attempt to stop the crossings.
The impression I’ve formed over the years?
Is that these don’t necessarily work.
If it had started, I think the last Tory government Rwanda plans would have been shown up as flawed, fairly quickly.
I think the same of the current, Labour, government’s One-In One-out, plan.
That started a few weeks ago when a handful of migrants were deported to France.
One Iranian man deported this way … ?
Has since made a return trip on a small boat.
I’ve formed three impressions.
One?
These plans are doomed to fail.
Two?
The next government’s plans will be just as effective.
Three?
We should laugh at a politician, the first chance we get …
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I finally finished Sir Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch, last night: the Penguin Classic’s edition.
It’s a heady reminder of what the man’s writing was like, at its height.
And the annotations … ?
Are very revealing.
I can only hope Nation gets given the treatment: it, Night Watch and Thud! are possibly his best works.
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Which reminds me: I’ve started reading Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, the next book on my to-be-read pile.
I’m two chapters in … and could — can? — hear the main character’s Southern US accent whilst reading it.
I don’t think that’s my imagination doing that: more Butler’s writing.
I think that’s a credit to her, given that!
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