Recent content by JamesT

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Don't EU countries do that by requiring everyone who lives in the country to register with the local authority so they can keep track of where you are? Whereas although we may have a harder border, if you're inside the country there is no requirement to tell the authorities anything. How much...

But they do so extremely rarely. From 1789 to 2020 they issued 25,544 decisions. They've overruled previous decisions of theirs in only 145 cases. There's normally a fairly high bar for them to decide to overturn prior precedent.

If they're making such large changes as consolidating down to one company, they can easily change the rules to allow restriction by brand.

The right to constrain freedom of movement for new members of the EU is part of the accession treaties. It’s structured as an initial 2 years with a couple of options to extend afterwards up to a maximum of 7 years. If we didn’t put restrictions in for the 2004 enlargement, there’s nothing a...

In the UK we have parliamentary privilege, where members of both houses are immune from various legal actions in order that they can carry out their work without having to fend off lawsuits. Some other countries such as the US have broadened this concept so any actions taken by a member of the...

An agreement like the one we have already for the French to try and stop the boats? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64916446 That doesn't sound like a government unwilling to have adult discussions.

There was the Dublin agreement whilst we were in the EU. In the last few years before we left, the UK was a net recipient of refugees under it. That is more were returned to the UK than we returned to the EU.

Perhaps @Magdalia is thinking of GDP per capita? https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/grossdomesticproductgdp/timeseries/ihxw/qna shows it going from £31,493 to £33,257, an increase of 5.6% over that time period. Which implies most of that 17.5% increase has been due to population growth and in...

Do you have a source for those migration stats? https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/long-term-international-migration-flows-to-and-from-the-uk/ has a graph of net migration since the 90s when it was sub-100k. The year before Covid was over 300k. Rebalancing the...

That's picking 1 of the 200-odd countries in the world an EU citizen could live in, versus 27 for the UK one. I don't think it's a particularly meaningful metric.

I'm not recognising it either. Can't quite make out what she's singing which would normally be my goto for identifying a song, stick lyrics into a search engine and see what comes back.

In the words of Ellen Ripley, nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure. :-)

Some of the commentary around the Villa keeper said the rule change was 4 years ago. Apparently the idea is that the referee can penalise the keeper for repeated infringements during the shootout where sending them off after a single one would be excessive.

Though the game was only at 3-3 thanks to a very soft penalty. https://a1.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2024%2F0422%2Fr1322494_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&w=1140&cquality=40&format=jpg was given, but...