Expelling mistake: the costs of hardline immigration policy
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The Economist
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🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The rich world is experiencing record migrant flows—and the attendant social upheaval. Finding immigration policies that are not economically ruinous is damnably hard. Our three-part series starts to unpack why people are so fed up with the big dating apps (11:10). And the head-spinning history of how break(danc)ing became an Olympic sport (18:44).
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host |
| 0:46.2 | Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:50.6 | shaping your world. |
| 1:00.0 | If you've heard anything about the online dating world lately, you've probably heard people saying that it sucks. |
| 1:03.4 | In the first of our three-part series, we look at how and why the big established dating firms |
| 1:08.7 | are falling behind. |
| 1:12.4 | And today is a landmark day in the history of breakdancing or breaking as its actual |
| 1:17.5 | practitioners call it. The sport makes its Olympic debut, the only new event at this year's games. |
| 1:23.8 | We take a little spin through history to see how it got here. |
| 1:27.0 | First up, though, though. The riots in Britain that we started off the week with have now mercifully died down. |
| 1:50.8 | The reasons behind them are varied. Bluntly, some of it was unabashed racism, but plenty |
| 1:56.6 | of it was frustration about what has become the running sore of British politics, immigration. |
| 2:01.8 | I can tell people what I will do with them. |
| 2:05.0 | I will put them on planes to Rwanda because they shouldn't be able to stay. |
| 2:08.0 | And of course it's not just Britain. |
| 2:11.0 | Stopping Muslim migration into Denmark stopping Islamization of the Danish society |
| 2:17.7 | close our borders right away to asylum seekers and immigrants originating from Islamic countries. |
| 2:24.0 | The visa scandal that the gets in the |
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