BritCits

Debating family immigration rules on the Islam Channel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&client=mv-google&gl=GB&v=vU3Ajy9hXZY

With Awale Olad of https://twitter.com/APPGMigration , Alexis McGhee (a campaigner against the rules who is herself affected) and a Conservative supporter of the rules.

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The protester jailed for disrupting the 2012 Oxford-Cambridge boat race has been ordered to leave the UK.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/23/trenton-oldfield_n_3487085.html?1372008346

Trenton Oldfield, 37, has been told by the Home Office his presence in the country would not be "conducive to the public good", reports the Guardian.

Oldfield, who is Australian, has lived in the UK for ten years and his British wife is expecting their child this week.

Scary times.

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The revolt of the global middle class.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/06/the-revolt-of-the-global-middle-class/277125/

'The lower strata of the middle class — the small tradespeople, shopkeepers, and retired tradesmen generally, the handicraftsmen and peasants — all these sink gradually into the proletariat, partly because their diminutive capital does not suffice for the scale on which Modern Industry is carried on, and is swamped in the competition with the large capitalists, partly because their specialised skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production. Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population. ' - http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm
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Police 'spied on' Stephen Lawrence family.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23022634

A former undercover police officer has claimed he was ordered to infiltrate the Stephen Lawrence campaign in 1993, the Guardian has reported.

Peter Francis told the newspaper and Channel 4's Dispatches programme he posed as an anti-racism campaigner in a hunt for "disinformation" to use against those criticising the police.