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

[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.