The UK immigration office displays zero tolerance for its own mistakes: "Application rejected because we lost your passport."

The most elementary sense of justice says that you must not hold your own mistakes against someone that is at your mercy. The people who work in that office have been taught to disregard the most elementary sense of justice; the culture of that office is "say no at any excuse".

I suggest moving those bureaucrats to the department that provides environmental approvals for construction and agriculture, and rebooting the immigration office with entirely new staff.

The UAE may be a "true friend" of the Tories that rule Britain, but it is no friend of justice or human rights.

The friendship seems to be limited to the UAE's purchase of British arms.

The poverty of the underclass is the preexisting medical condition that makes a country more vulnerable to death from Covid-19.

The response to Covid-19 is causing a big decrease in sexual encounters. Some countries are taking advantage of this to knock down the spread of HIV.

The UK's peculiar form of federation seems tailor-made for provoking separatism.

The UK is something like a federation of four states: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The last three have their own state governments which decide some significant policies. England, with a bigger population than the other three put together, does not have its own parliament, but it dominates the UK parliament.

Perhaps it could eliminate the nationalist tendency by dividing Scotland into two states, and dividing England into 20 states. The states could have roughly comparable populations, and they would not drive nationalism in Scotland or England.

To extend this to Northern Ireland might be difficult as it would require more, smaller states.