Okay, but how, in practice, do you think overseas nationals get hired into the civil service? The headline is written to make you think the government is actively recruiting overseas (‘flying in’, because they know it will produce the reaction you just had.

(Reminds me, viscerally, of the discomfort people express about my visible disability in public. And like fuck will I tolerate that for anyone else).

This is what gets me - access to public space determined not by anyone’s behaviour, but by whether they belong to a ‘bad’ minority. Pure prejudice given the force of law.

Given the disparity between the increased cost and declining quality of PRS housing, I wouldn’t take that for granted.

Look, the party of ‘working families’ can’t actually be expected to come to terms with what the workforce of 2025 looks like and represent its interests. That’d be daft. It’s far more sensible to assume it will be 1990 forever and the insulting caricatures inside your head reflect real people.

It worked so well that the same tactic went on to lose them the 2015 election and contribute a large share to the destruction of the Conservative Party. And yet here we are.

The thing that gets me is that they don’t seem to grasp that a large proportion of the ‘real Labour vote’ they want to bring back is now dead. Literally dead, not figuratively dead.

Yes, basically. The astonishing thing is, it’s exactly the same tactic that New Labour employed, which is why getting ILR now takes 5 years and thousands of pounds.

Isn’t the premise here that feminist advocacy needs to be softened?

To illustrate the point, the OP blocked me as soon as I brought up violence against women.

Okay, but doesn’t this ultimately amount to ‘the trouble with feminism is that it isn’t about men’? Which misses the point. Most politics is already about men.

Like it or not, young men and women aren’t equally disadvantaged here, and it’s disingenuous to pretend they are.

In fact that would help young men long term too, because the more normal it becomes for them to see women as their equals the less they will suffer from the ingrained lesson that they are supposed to be [insert stereotype of toxic masculinity here].

On the contrary. The organised left spends an awful lot of time ignoring it even as the organised right does everything possible to make it worse. We could respond to this moment by actually taking policy action to defend women’s rights and safety.

Why is the prescribed answer to male violence always that women should shut up and be nicer?

And your female students are likelier to face domestic abuse, sexual violence or murder at the hands of a partner or ex partner than your male ones.