Insightful article. Here's a gift link so that people can actually read it. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

A subscription to @theatlantic.com is a good thing.

For me this flat caricature of whole segments of the populatuon that in reality are socially and ideologically heterogenous is infuriating.

A reproduction of class prejudice cloaked in claims of fighting it.

And is something the current Government could do as a simple rebranding exercise, so that people understand what is being talked about.

Rupert Lowe thinks it would cost £36 - £54 billion to remove everybody without legal status, if 3/4 people leave voluntarily, to reduce cost from quadruple that. (The Cons hope to do that bit for £6 billion)

New policy of creating a new undocumented population of 3 million is x5 bigger than that

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)