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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://zirk.us/users/ChrisMayLA6/statuses/114561617377651776">Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 19:03:51 JST</a><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" title="chrismayla6@zirk.us"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/89211-48-20250111110309.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Emeritus Prof Christopher May" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Emeritus Prof Christopher May</a></section><article><p>If (as Keir Starmer recently opined) we are becoming an 'island of strangers' its not got much to do with migrants, but rather the attrition on social &amp; community spaces that years of austerity, cuts &amp; (more recently) successive lockdowns have wrought.</p><p>And, if you then look at people's lives, then a key indicator of loneliness &amp; social disconnection looks to be financial/economic precariousness.</p><p>We must stop blaming migrants for the UK's social problems!</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" rel="tag">#politics</a> </p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/britain-is-already-becoming-an-island-of-strangers-but-immigration-isnt-the-driver-256724" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://theconversation.com/britain-is-already-becoming-an-island-of-strangers-but-immigration-isnt-the-driver-256724</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5097686#notice-9997587">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-05-24T19:03:51+09:00" title="Saturday, 24-May-2025 19:03:51 JST">about 20 days ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114561617377651776" rel="external" title="Sent from zirk.us via ActivityPub">zirk.us</a></span></span><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114561617377651776">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: images.theconversation.com</div><h5><a href="https://theconversation.com/britain-is-already-becoming-an-island-of-strangers-but-immigration-isnt-the-driver-256724">Britain is already becoming an ‘island of strangers’ – but immigration isn’t the driver</a></h5><div> from <span>Michael Skey</span></div></header><div>Keir Starmer is right to highlight the decline of social cohesion, but wrong about the reasons for it.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May (chrismayla6@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 19:03:51 JST Emeritus Prof Christopher May
If (as Keir Starmer recently opined) we are becoming an 'island of strangers' its not got much to do with migrants, but rather the attrition on social & community spaces that years of austerity, cuts & (more recently) successive lockdowns have wrought.
And, if you then look at people's lives, then a key indicator of loneliness & social disconnection looks to be financial/economic precariousness.
We must stop blaming migrants for the UK's social problems!
#politics
https://theconversation.com/britain-is-already-becoming-an-island-of-strangers-but-immigration-isnt-the-driver-256724
In conversationabout 20 days ago from zirk.uspermalink
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  Britain is already becoming an ‘island of strangers’ – but immigration isn’t the driver
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  Keir Starmer is right to highlight the decline of social cohesion, but wrong about the reasons for it.

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