Echoes from history

How nationalism, no matter how extreme always becomes a power of fundamental contradictions because no ideology can escape the gravity of unintended consequences: "Between 1936/ 7 and 1938/9 the number of foreign workers increased from 274,000 to 435,000." (from "The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation" by Richard J. Evans) Start reading it for free: http://amzn.eu/27UK0qS

TV licence could be abolished from 2027, says Nicky Morgan -  https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/feb/05/tv-licence-could-be-abolished-from-2027-says-nicky-morgan There is a lot wrong with the BBC but you don't improve any service by closing it down. The idea that the BBC is anachronistic and slow to develop is pure gaslighting though; the BBC brought colour television, Ceefax (decades before the Web), pay-for-TV like BBC Select (30 years ago), early Internet integration (BBC Networking Club - 1994), stereo and high definition broadcasts and up to iPlayer that beat Netflix to the UK by 5 years. Following streaming services haven't really competed - they've took advantage of cheap cloud computing to sell access to low rent movies which isn't innovative or even that useful. All that's really happening is they're catching up to the BBC where they were with the 1990 Broadcasting Act that turned ITV into utter dogshit. ITV went from the The World at War to Th