Sunder Katwala
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@britishfuture. Author How to be a Patriot https://t.co/2mVuOhKhxi Posting more under bluer skies now https://t.co/58yFpmYU8o
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The three short months between VE Day in May and VJ day in August changed the contours of the postwar world, reshaping British politics, the map of Europe and the future of conflict in a new nuclear age. My column this week ahead of tomorrow's 80th anniversary commemorations
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The non-league away supporters this weekend were larger than the asylum protestors.
Today's best National League away attendances:.Southend United 700+.Carlisle United 551.Scunthorpe United 365.Rochdale 248.Altrincham 246.Aldershot Town 212.
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From the Express LIVE blog, including the highlights .- 20 protest in Canary Wharf.- 30 shout at Window in Birmingham
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Attempts to report the "wave of protest" on Sunday descended into farce
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TImes blog on modest waves of protest .
thetimes.com
Crowds of demonstrators, some in their hundreds, gathered in Cheshunt, Chichester, Portsmouth, Cardiff and Altrincham
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Times "asylum protests swell" headline yet reports on a total of about 700 people across 7 locations, "some in their hundreds" (1.5 or 2.5 hundreds; Chichester 250 is biggest) but several smaller than 100
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What the government is "simply not telling you", quarterly, via .
gov.uk
This series brings together all documents relating to Immigration system statistics quarterly release.
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It seems weird for Matthew Goodwin to copy out the quarterly Home Office stats bulletin for a conspiratorial email to subscribers accusing the government withholding the data it releases on the dot every quarter
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Net migration for January to Dec 2024 was 431,000, down from 860,000 . Immigration is lower again in 2025 than 2024 . Emigration figures + new net migration headline until November - but net migration now clearly lower in 2025 than 2024: currently in ballpark of 300-350k.
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Home office stats: year to June 2025 .Visas are 852k in 2024-25 (Peaked 1.4 million in 2023) . 2025 v 2024.Work visas down 36% .[21k health/care visas; peak > 200k] .Study visas down 4% .Study dependents down 81% .Family visas down 23% .Asylum up 14%.
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RT @henrywinter: Short of cutting his arm off it’s difficult to know what Tarkowski’s supposed to do. Refs told to look for 3 things with h….
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I have written the 87th of these 88 by-elections, 1789-2025, on Rochdale 2024, in this new book.
COMING ON 18 SEPTEMBER. British By-Elections 1789-2025 - The 88 By-Election Campaigns That Shaped Our Politics. Preorder a signed copy. Full list of by-elections and essay authors below. Parliamentary by-election happens when a seat in the House of.
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RT @britishfuture: Ahead of the 80th anniversary of #VJDay tomorrow, @sundersays writes for @easterneye on the importance today of commemor….
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RT @aakhtar: Lahore Museum is one of the world's greatest and most unrecognised, unappreciated Museums. Full of beauty and thousands of sto….
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RT @britishfuture: As small boat crossings are set to hit 50,000 sinec Labour came to power, our @sundersays is talking to @BBCWorldatOne a….
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Mirza Khan, 103, is among the few surviving veterans of the Burma campaign, remembered ahead of the 80th anniversary commemorations of VJ Day on Friday .
bbc.co.uk
Veteran Mirza Khan talks with his granddaughter about his service during WW2.
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Maybe people think they were much bigger. GB News is talking about "mass demonstrations" involving "thousands" across "dozens of cities" - all of which sounds hallucinatory, outside Nuneaton
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One large (locally organised) protest of in Kidderminster yesterday. These other 19 locations announced seemed attracted < 2000 people between them: 6 people in Wolverhampton but rising to 150-200 in about four cases . Do supporters have any theory about such low turnout?
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