This is becoming a repetitive riff
Nov. 10th, 2019 02:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersLike Whole Lotta Love, Layla, or Smoke on the Water:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/10/academics-protest-as-cambridge-fellow-asiya-islam-told-to-leave-britain
Wherein we find that yet another award-winning academic has fallen foul of the Home Office.
The Home Office needs either root-and-branch reform, or the government must accept that the Home Office functionaries are only obeying the frankly nativist and racist policies of the last few governments. The Right Honourable Mrs T. May, when Home Secretary, instituted a lot of the unfortunate “Hostile Environment” policies which led to this pretty impasse. I suppose one can consider her prime-ministerial career to be some sort of instant karma.
[Edit]
As of 30 mins ago (about 16:30pm on Sun 10th November 2019) the article was trending in the top ten on the Grauniad’s website, and the Beeb hasn’t got anything about the case anywhere, though they do have lots of positive articles about “our” black folk, if you can bear me to characterise that sort of opinion. [shudder]
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/10/academics-protest-as-cambridge-fellow-asiya-islam-told-to-leave-britain
Wherein we find that yet another award-winning academic has fallen foul of the Home Office.
The Home Office needs either root-and-branch reform, or the government must accept that the Home Office functionaries are only obeying the frankly nativist and racist policies of the last few governments. The Right Honourable Mrs T. May, when Home Secretary, instituted a lot of the unfortunate “Hostile Environment” policies which led to this pretty impasse. I suppose one can consider her prime-ministerial career to be some sort of instant karma.
[Edit]
As of 30 mins ago (about 16:30pm on Sun 10th November 2019) the article was trending in the top ten on the Grauniad’s website, and the Beeb hasn’t got anything about the case anywhere, though they do have lots of positive articles about “our” black folk, if you can bear me to characterise that sort of opinion. [shudder]
