https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/11/labour-immigration-small-boat-crossings-reform-uk. "Immigration has been a fixture of Britain’s #political #discourse for so long, it now feels, like Voltaire’s god, that if the issue did not exist, we would have to invent it. What would our #politics look like, what would the broad majority of Britain’s #media do with themselves, without #immigration? It has become such a feature of the country’s political #culture, it amounts to a sort of #historical exhibit... [conjoined by] #misinformation."