Sir Almaviva

"Going on a diet can be eating more, but not as much as I could have" I tell myself, having found a loophole

Well, I can't really speak because I am one of those Italians who don't drink coffee 😬 yes, we do exist!

Ideale by PaoloTosti sung by young Giuseppe Di Stefano YouTube video by andigrim

Choosing 10 recordings to take on a desert island is an impossible endeavour, but this one would be very hard to leave out.

I read the whole article, and it's as vacuous and pretentious as the headline suggests.

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A sign at a restaurant in Huddersfield saying "Pitta is my favourite bread - it's second to naan"

A shop in Lymm called "Beauty UnLymmited"

The Brits do love a pun.

A classic.

"Why don't cyclists use the cycle lane?" complain the people who park their car on the cycle lane.

What a load of nonsense.

A warm light shines in a lantern in a niche on a wall.

A human head sculpture at the top of an arch, with a big beard and a crown.

Some red primroses.

A beautiful stained-glass window with depictions of saints and other decorations.

Some cool details

A scene in a village. A Tudor-style building and some brick houses are on the side of a pond, in the background. On the right of the pond we see a little waterfall. In the foreground some flowers are displayed in a long rectangular vase hung to a metal fence around the pond.

A photo depicting a calm rural scene. On the left we see a small church (Holy Trinity Church, Little Bollington) and on the right some graves among the grass, with many daffodils growing among the graves.

A sizeable body of water with trees all around it whose image is reflected in the water. The sky is overcast.

A church (St Mary's Church, Lymm) with a tower and clock, with a path leading up to it. On either side of the path are some graves among the grass. We can see some daffodils among the graves.

Some photos in and around Lymm, Cheshire

A photo of three daffodils. One of them is in the foreground and the other two slightly behind and a bit out of focus.

"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils..."

L'internationale YouTube video by Marc Ogeret - Topic

From: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaUA...

a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' . Alt: a woman in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` sure , jan '' .

"Limitata"?

Thinking of these verses:

"Les rois nous saoulaient de fumées.
Paix entre nous, guerre aux tyrans!
Appliquons la grève aux armées,
Crosse en l’air et rompons les rangs!
S’ils s’obstinent, ces cannibales,
A faire de nous des héros,
Ils sauront bientôt que nos balles
Sont pour nos propres généraux."

In linea con l'operazione militare speciale del loro amico.

No, but I'm going to see the same Peter Grimes next week in Salford.

Under the current rules my wife would be able to apply for ILR at the end of next year, and citizenship shortly after that, so 2028. With Badenoch's proposals that would move to 2048. Labour would also make it harder, so that would have a similar (though possibly smaller) effect. Mad stuff.

"Fly them to the moon..." 🎶 to paraphrase a famous son of immigrants

Indeed. So if you came to the UK as a 25-year old, you would presumably (if you stuck around) get ILR when you were 30, and then get citizenship when you were 45. In all this while you’re a total foreigner in the land you work in, your kids pay 3X the cost that others do for college, you…

At least this clarifies matters -if the government pursue Mahmood's proposals on "earned settlement"/ILR they will be explicitly allying themselves with Lam and Jenrick's ethnonationalist agenda.

Exactly.

So Badenoch is proposing:

1) 10 years to get ILR
2) 15 more years to apply for citizenship

This means you'd only be able to apply for British citizenship 25 years (!) after coming here, at the very least. It's an utterly absurd position.

Badenoch here is saying you should only be able to apply for citizenship after having ILR for 15 years, do I get it right? It's an insane position.

My grandfather-in-law fled Nazi Germany with his parents in 1938 and settled in the US. He refused to set foot back in Germany for over 60 years, despite all the changes made in the interim. It didn’t matter that Germany became “safe.” He wanted nothing to do with the place.

💚

I like it here, by and large people are nice

honestly

I've never written to my MP before, but I'm quite tempted to write to my (Labour) MP to let her know my opinion about the proposed changes to settlement. Currently the main threat to my family's happiness, stability and prosperity in this country comes from the Labour government.

A thing that really irks me is how many in the UK (including the Home Secretary) treat "British" and "immigrant" as two separate groups. Some of us are both! Some immigrants are spouses/parents of British citizens. Labour's policies are going to hurt a lot of British citizens too.