I don't often agree with Cristina Odone, but...

[Gittins Gal]

Comment already posted on the website!

Pure clickbait but I fall for it every time!

Dan Hodges, Christine Odone, Benedict Brogan, Matthew D'Ancona etc etc. You don't have to be a rich, well connected Londoner to be a writer for the Daily Telegraph but it certainly helps.

Not to mention Mary Riddell and that Martha Whasserchops woman.

I posted a comment too but it was promptly disappeared.

Where can you find a decent, middling intellectual, right of centre newspaper now?

Try Breitbart.com, Deller's new home.

[vetran]

It's nothing to do with recent immigration.

http://www.ethnicity.ac.uk/census/Co...s-Briefing.pdf

its from the census.

Its like saying people like Pate so we should all eat cauliflower.


apparently 40% of Black Africans in UK have degrees? About the same as Indian & Chinese. I must admit I'm not sure how this happened considering all the studies showing the Black Africans bobbing along at about the same as white British in education studies. Or do we only import degree level Africans on the boat from Africa?

[doodab]

apparently 40% of Black Africans in UK have degrees? About the same as Indian & Chinese. I must admit I'm not sure how this happened considering all the studies showing the Black Africans bobbing along at about the same as white British in education studies. Or do we only import degree level Africans on the boat from Africa?

Sounds reasonable. We don't let just anyone in.

[MicrosoftBob]

Comment already posted on the website!

Pure clickbait but I fall for it every time!

Dan Hodges, Christine Odone, Benedict Brogan, Matthew D'Ancona etc etc. You don't have to be a rich, well connected Londoner to be a writer for the Daily Telegraph but it certainly helps.

Where can you find a decent, middling intellectual, right of centre newspaper now?

Don't say the Times. That went downmarket years ago and it's just as grovelling to Camerons Conservatives.

The Financial Times ???

[doodab]

The Financial Times ???

There are a few magazines as well. Economist, foreign affairs spring to mind though i don't know if they might be a bit neutral for tory hardliners.

[Mich the Tester]

There are a few magazines as well. Economist, foreign affairs spring to mind though i don't know if they might be a bit neutral for tory hardliners.

Economist is a bit pro migration freedom for some hardliners.

[doodab]

Economist is a bit pro migration freedom for some hardliners.

Fair point. Sort of goes hand in hand with the economic liberalisation agenda I suppose.

[Mich the Tester]

Fair point. Sort of goes hand in hand with the economic liberalisation agenda I suppose.

It's a sticky point for some people on the right who claim to believe in free markets and free trade. Some seem to support freedom for businesses to move jobs around the world to get the best or cheapest job done, but they don't support freedom for workers to move to where the jobs are or where the best rates/salaries are paid.

[doodab]

It's a sticky point for some people on the right who claim to believe in free markets and free trade. Some seem to support freedom for businesses to move jobs around the world to get the best or cheapest job done, but they don't support freedom for workers to move to where the jobs are or where the best rates/salaries are paid.

Yet most business leaders seem to want the latter.

Odd that it seems to be the preference of the left as well, you might have thought protection for local workers would be higher on their agenda. I suppose as you say allowing workers to move with the jobs is a better bet, as.long as one is in favour of internationalisation.

[Mich the Tester]

Yet most business leaders seem to want the latter.

Odd that it seems to be the preference of the left as well, you might have thought protection for local workers would be higher on their agenda. I suppose as you say allowing workers to move with the jobs is a better bet, as.long as one is in favour of internationalisation.

Restricting migration used to be a primarily left wing issue, with unions campaigning for it. Of course, unions have often favoured closed shops in the past, another restriction on labour market mobility, and the right railed against that practise for being uncompetitive and illiberal. The worm appears to have turned.