A lack of realisation that the Western political spectrum doesn't map that well in a lot of other countries and that many dissidents and pro-democracy campaigners might not necessarily be cuddly Westernised liberals, etc.?

Without getting too relativist.

Most famously, Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Indeed. I do would also just note (not targeted at you) that some of the people commenting on this visibly did not hold Navalny to this standard (and rightly did not).

A genuinely progressive and liberal govt would act to reverse this trend and entrench citizenship rights given the dangers ahead. I fear the current govt will do the opposite.

To be honest, reading this, things have proceeded much further than I had realised. I fear the precedents already established in last 20 years or so will mean a Reform Home Sec has sweeping powers to act against any dual citizen or naturalised citizen they take against bsky.app/profile/bows...

At the other place, a Tory MP was saying that “he’s not really British”. Leaving aside the legal incoherence of such a statement, the same could, at some point, very much have been said about his leader

Frankly for a policy that is many ways *less* liberal than her own route to citizenship. 'You have an automatic right to citizenship if one of your parents is a British citizen' is a much much less controversial citizenship route than 'your posh Nigerian parents flew to the UK then flew out': !

Hell, I'm not convinced we should revoke citizenship at all.

But certainly not for being a twat online.

If this got more views on YouTube than the actual show, it would make my year.

youtu.be/Y54OJC0FtCs