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What follows is something I found on Albanian asylum seekers. Make of it what you will. ‘Claim: Arriving on a small boat means you’re an illegal migrant, not a real refugee Those fleeing for their lives will seek any means to obtain safety. For Albanian nationals fleeing persecution there are...

Shiraz Maher on this. Maher wrote what is probably the definitive study on Salafi-Jihadism (which is outstanding) and is a prominent contributor to the work of the ICSR at King’s College. He is my ‘go to’ person when it comes to matters related to terrorism as he often alerts his readers to new...

Wonder if she may have a psychopathic profile?

Think it was in Mary Warnock’s Dishonest to God: Keeping Religion Out Of Politics that I read that this cabal of bishops has been one of the collective forces ranged against attempts to legalise euthanasia. That alone makes me side with Toksvig. However, there is also another book: Godless...

Wilfully misheard lyrics are often amusing.

Some of the replies to the tweet are good too (‘Kids are crying now’).

This is only an intellectual exercise for me, but if I was seriously trying to talk someone out of voting Labour (which I'm not) I would argue that all we are going to end up with is neoliberalism-lite when it comes to economic policy. Here is what neoliberalism is...

Yes. Thought that was a problem when I lived there. Presenteeism can also be used to humiliate an employee if they have fallen out of favour: you are assigned a role but it involves having nothing to do. There's also a lot of bullying goes on in Japanese workplaces. My wife is Japanese and...

All those points are valid. I have a tendency to see Japan through rose-tinted spectacles as I had a great time when I lived there. Although it was published 20 years ago, Alex Kerr saw a lot of this coming in his book Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan.

Sleaford Mods v Cold War Steve (‘In England, no-one can hear you scream’)

The Japanese are distinguished for having a word, ‘karoshi’, that means ‘death through overwork’, so I wouldn’t disagree. However, things may be changing a bit. In 2017, yearly working hours were 2,456 in Cambodia, 2,232 in Bangladesh, 2,209 in South Africa, and 2024 in Indonesia. In the same...