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6/24/2025, 2:27:38 PM
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>The Windrush furore highlights to what extent "history" has become the state's ubiquitous legitimising force (the real "Yookay"); it is interesting in this context to consider what histories *aren't* told.
>on the one hand, "Britain has always had the ruler floor", on the other "We had an immigration appeal system twice before and abolished it on both occasions".
>A naive theory of "globalisation" is that it destroys local traditions etc. Britain demonstrates it's precisely the opposite: our entanglement in various international phenomena (constitutional, demographic etc) has instead produced a suffocating web of native stories&traditions.
>When Blunkett tried to sort out the asylum system in the 2000s, the Telegraph's legal hack @JoshuaRozenberg wailed to his readers that the "unthinkable" was happening.... Unthinkable to who???
Oy vey!
>The Windrush furore highlights to what extent "history" has become the state's ubiquitous legitimising force (the real "Yookay"); it is interesting in this context to consider what histories *aren't* told.
>on the one hand, "Britain has always had the ruler floor", on the other "We had an immigration appeal system twice before and abolished it on both occasions".
>A naive theory of "globalisation" is that it destroys local traditions etc. Britain demonstrates it's precisely the opposite: our entanglement in various international phenomena (constitutional, demographic etc) has instead produced a suffocating web of native stories&traditions.
>When Blunkett tried to sort out the asylum system in the 2000s, the Telegraph's legal hack @JoshuaRozenberg wailed to his readers that the "unthinkable" was happening.... Unthinkable to who???
Oy vey!
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