Interesting Links for 24-07-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Two decades of Alzheimer's research may be based on deliberate fraud that has cost millions of lives

(tags:fraud research alzheimers OhForFucksSake )

2. Want to vote for the UK's next Prime Minister? Not a UK citizen (or resident)? No problem!

(tags:conservatives OhForFucksSake )

3. Tiktok fastest growing UK news source

(tags:news UK Doom )

4. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, has been sending threatening letters to people investigating his tax affairs

(tags:UK politics tax libel OhForFucksSake conservatives )

5. 54 cases of Monkeypox in Scotland

(tags:Scotland disease )

6. The methods that fraudulent Chinese sellers use to game Amazon rankings

(tags:fraud Amazon China )

7. Massive queues at Dover: a story in 5 parts

(tags:migration UK Europe trade Doom )

8. The Sandman Trailer looks pretty awesome

(tags:Sandman TV trailer video )

9. The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change

(tags:globalwarming lies propaganda )

Comments

[fub]

Non-citizens might have built their lives there, acquired a house, had children who grew up in their adoptive country. They might not have the right to be involved in the politics of their home country, but at the same time those politics can affect them very, very deeply indeed.

[anna_wing]

That is true. But ultimately they are still only sojourners.

[fub]

22 years of living in a country, building a career and raising a family, paying into the social security and healthcare systems -- and still a sojourner? How long would an immigrant have to live in their adoptive country before you would consider them settled? What prerequisites are needed?

[dewline]

Once you get past the five-year mark, I suspect we can make a case that non-citizens have committed to setting down serious roots in the new-to-them country. After twenty? They should get citizenship, if not by application, then by award for deep emotional and other investment.

[anna_wing]

Citizenship.