Anomie-maxxing

Britain is a colony.

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Bless Polly’s optimism, hopefully not copium.

If she’s on Burnham’s side, I feel less optimistic about any change he will bring.

There must be no legal way to claim asylum.

I find it impressive that the same hierarchical structure responsible for failures like Hillsborough, Windrush, and the Post Office scandal (amongst many others) has the hubris to tell us to trust it with this kind of invasive monitoring - it is really quite astonishing.

To the incompetent elites: make sure that your institutions are trustworthy enough before asking for the kind of data that would dramatically magnify the abuses of power, coverups and institutional failures that would be possible.