11 October

Things we haven’t learned in the past 2 years. 1. We really hate borders and restrictions when they’re applied to us, but we fall over ourselves to vote for politicians who apply them to other people. 2. Most of the shittiest, lowest paid work in our societies is invisible, and is done by immigrants or temporary foreign workers. As the UK has now discovered, in the Brexit fantasy, where suddenly nobody is there to do that work. 3. The only thing stopping our countries becoming large aged-care homes is those immigrant workers. Our own populations are ageing very badly, we don’t have children any more. And the ones we do have, we happily infect with viruses, so we can go to the pub and get on planes.