*Why is the right obsessed with ‘defending’ borders? Because it sees citizenship as a commodity.*

*Cambodia accused of using Covid to edge towards ‘totalitarian dictatorship’.*

*Compulsory worship of national symbols is the sure sign of a culture in decline.*

The latest lifelong UK resident to be denied a UK passport is, ironically, a member of British nobility.

With his position, he won't suffer much difficulty — unlike the people who were forced to live in Jamaica for lack of records of living in Britain as children.

The Tories have made private corruption of the state's work into normal practice.

Various aspects of the response to Covid-19 were contracted out to companies that didn't have the capacity to do the job at all. Almost everything that the UK government tried to do, failed. Vaccine production was the exception because the Tories didn't have the choice to hire unknown companies to make pharmaceuticals.