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Millions of Russians seem to be asking themselves the same question.

Using radar based navigation systems, which now form part of the safety net when GPS is unavailable. Is flying under such conditions unsafe? Absolutely not but the use GPS data offers more precision. (I'll admit to some degree of hyperbole in my original post). Given the circumstances, Russia's jamming of GPS signals over Ukraine is understandable but in the Baltic? Were there NATO military manoeuvres being carried out in the area? If not, the only reason for jamming GPS signals would be to disrupt civil activity. So far as aviation - and other forms of transport - is concerned, the risk to life by doing so is negligible but it is not non-existent.

And perhaps it wasn't? In any event, even though the US are the paymasters of NATO, the US President cannot make guarantees on behalf of NATO.

Facts have never been a strong suite for Putin's apologists. In the article, Seamus Milne seems to think that a referendum held whilst the region was under Russian occupation (in Crimea) has some legitimacy. Yeah, right. There was no NATO promise not to expand eastwards. The Maidan coup was the culmination of an uprising against President Yanukovych, who decided to unilaterally revoke the will of the Ukrainian parliament (and people) by refusing to sign the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

So it's perfectly ok for Russia to interfere with aviation communication channels, thus endangering the lives of thousands of innocent civilians?

Pot/kettle. When did you live in London? When did you last even visit the city or the country for that matter? You are the one continually making negative comparisons between your perceived image of today's London and the London of your past.

I'll defer to you regarding champagne tasting parties - not my bag - and Islington's the 'wrong' side of the river for me. You're on a loser if you want to indulge in a pissing contest re our relative knowledge and experience of South London. My Mum's family were market traders in Waterloo for as far back as I can trace. I was born and brought up in Brixton in the '70s when the area was less gentrified than it is now. Although I moved away in the mid-80s, my parents continued to live there until they died in last decade. My wife and I now use Brixton as a base when we are in London. Bottom line: To use the old clique. I've forgotten more about Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham than you could ever have hoped to have learnt during your 3 years living there.

You cannot prosecute an individual for holding anti-Semitic thoughts and beliefs, but if those thoughts or beliefs are expressed in word or deed then the individual could, quite rightly, be prosecuted under the provisions of the Hate Crime law. https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/hco/hate-crime/what-is-hate-crime/

Showing your ignorance of London yet again. London is ranked 8th on a list of 31 major cities worldwide for safety. The crime rate per person in London is below the average for England as a whole. If crime is rampant in London then many parts of England and other major world cities must be lawless.

The requirements you outline are effectively in operation in the UK currently. The UK government doesn't enforce the second requirement regarding skills for refugees which imo is correct given that these individuals are fleeing persecution. At what level does immigration start to erode the existing culture? What criteria should be employed to measure this?

So if homogeneous societies are a better model as you imply, should all countries 1) stop immigration and 2) repatriate immigrants?

I don't know why you think that, Trans? I've just glanced at HSBC's T&C and it doesn't mention anything about having to be alive to apply for a loan😉😁

Can you post a link to the video please? This I have got to see.

Good effort in trying to implicate the dastardly English into matters, but it's pretty obvious that this alleged act of corruption is entirely "Made in Scotland".

From the source article: “I don’t think he’s well. He doesn’t look well at all,” remarked one distrustful employee". No flies on that employee which is probably more than can be said for one of the other actors in this scenario. I know, I know. I'm a bad person.

Learn from our mistakes? Naw ... perish the thought.

I doubt that there are many people who would deny that COVID had a major effect on the world and the individual national economies. The war in Ukraine has also had some effect on the UK economy, but it has been much more damaging to most of the EU member states. However, when are Brexiters going to stop hiding behind these events and acknowledge that the overwhelming body of evidence shows that Brexit has damaged the UK economy? If Brexiters don't accept the findings of these various reports, then they should be able to point to the flaws in the argument and/or conclusions and/or methodologies. The fact that so little material exists disputing these findings, or offering valid counter arguments tells us all we need to know.

Perhaps but it will make even more of ass of us if we don't know the why, what and how of changing something.

I assume that the application process will try to identify such people.

George Osborne was the instigator of 'Project Fear'. Some of his predictions are listed in the link below. He overstated the impact but a 'pack of lies'? I think not. Sterling fell by 10% immediately after the referendum result and took years to recover without any significant change to our volume of exports. Estimates suggest that leaving the single market took 4% off of GDP and increased inflation by 0.4% pa. Importing from and exporting to the EU is undoubtedly more bureaucratic, time consuming and expensive than it was when we were an EU member. Academic, cultural and diplomatic relationships with the EU and the member states have been damaged. And for what? Where are these promised Brexit benefits? Little sign of them. Yes, a better Brexit could have been negotiated by remaining in the Customs Union and Single Market. An even harder Brexit, which you seemingly would have liked, would have made things worse: Osborne's 'Project Fear' predictions might then have been realised. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1339954/chancellor-who-orchestrated-project-fear-facing-the-end-of-his-political-career/

No.

Is that it? If so then it is a statement of the blindingly obvious. No government in its' right mind would want to import extremists and terrorists. I assumed that you were pointing to something more substantial i.e. specific mistakes in UK immigration policy and legislation which Australia should avoid. My error.

Any number of reasons but I'd suggest the main ones are (not in any particular order): 1) language: the refugee may speak English but not French, German, etc. 2) family and/or friends may already be resident in the UK 3) Anglophilia: Anything from believing that the UK will afford them more opportunities/ a better quality of life vis-a-vis other countries to some (family) connection through the colonial administration. I doubt that benefits per sec have much to do with it as benefits are just as generous - if not more so - in many mainland European countries.

I can see as clearly as the next person that importing terrorism of any description is a problem. What I can't see is an answer to my question asking you to identify the mistakes that you are claim were by the UK and that Australia is now in danger of following. I'm not looking for anything else merely asking you to clarify what you mean. Something you appear to be unable and/or unwilling to do.

If your numbers were correct then anarchy would prevail.