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what a decade for political memes
Ed Granter
I had some thoughts about Vincent Martigny's edited collection of essays about how to the resist the widespread nostalgia in France for the Trente Glorieuses.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/7UDYF...
The outsourcing of visa processing to VFS has long been a scandal in plain sight. One of many, sure, but one that brutally intervenes in the lives of "weak" passport holders when they are most vulnerable: asking a foreign state for the right to travel there.
www.politico.eu/article/how-...
I edited this article; it's very good.
Version française dans @lemonde.fr:
www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
Let's be very clear for those in the back of the room: THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED ANYWAY AND EVERY EXPERT SAID IT. So there was no need for Labour to do a kneejerk anti-immigration swerve that was strategically dumb and morally reprehensible.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...