@OliDugmore@SuellaBraverman Oli, you're conflating civic nationality with ethnicity. Saka is British, and he plays for the England team as a civic nation. Nobody denied his Britishness. The abuse he suffered was vile, but it doesn't erase English ethno-cultural identity. British=passport; English=ancestry.
@HJWilkins@implausibleblog It’s not infinite. The line is the historic English people, not a DNA percentage. Calling it 'divisive' is just a way to shut down the debate because you don’t like the answer. Every other nation has a heritage, English people are allowed one too. It's not division, it's identity
@HJWilkins@implausibleblog Anglo-Saxons settled 1,500 yrs ago & became the native English.America is a 250 yr old settler state. Massive difference. Ethno-cultural=ancestry passed through culture.Goalposts aren't moving, you're ignoring the historic foundation.Division comes from erasing it,not defendng it
@HJWilkins@implausibleblog I never said DNA. Ancestry is historical and familial continuity, not a genetic test. Demanding a percentage is a strawman. English is inherited ethno-cultural, British is civic. It's really that simple.
@HJWilkins@implausibleblog I never said white people can't be American or Australian. They're American by passport, European by ancestry. The US and Australia are settler civic nations. England is a historic ethno-cultural identity. That distinction isn't "woke," it's basic history.
@HJWilkins@implausibleblog Fair question - think of American as the civic label, just like British. White Americans are American by passport, but their ancestry is English, German, Irish, etc. You're actually proving my point, the legal label and the family tree are just different things.
@AS28359@implausibleblog Agree, I’ve no idea why many cannot understand this distinction and forcing this racial undertone is not helpful. Citizenship and ancestry need not be mutually exclusive. English if you’re of anglo-saxon descent, British otherwise and yes, it’s that simple.
@OnlinePalEng@edsheeran-the promoter may have made the formal decision, but calling it simply “not my decision” avoids the bigger question. Contractual authority and influence are not the same thing. You may not have signed the decision,but it’s difficult to argue you had no leverage over it.
@muhammadtalha93 I would feel safest with C. The pressure on a curved structure only makes it stronger whereas A and B have multiple points of failure.
@EdDunnerzna @wolbecker @Oliviafans9 That may hold some truth but I think that may be fundamentally due to being saddled with systemic western debt; they cannot prosper under such regimes; however, you’re starting to see that some, due their taking back control of their economies and ‘resources’, rapidly prospering.
@RRendalsvik@business Huh what!? 😂
You don’t start a war with a country you cannot win and come out of it implication free when you ‘effectively’ surrender 😏😏
@RussellQuantum@RoyalCentral …and what have you done to be so flippant about someones deserved recognition for doing unreported work for the greater good - exactly, I didn’t think so.
@Minabird48@melgibsonhq Russia and China are extremely close allies 🤦♂️
Don’t think for one second that the west can infiltrate or disrupt that partnership.