‘Alien-Nation’

How Our Politicians Created an ‘Island of Strangers’ So They Don’t Have to Make Our Lives Any Better

By presenting tougher immigration as a solution to people’s discontent, Keir Starmer and others sidestep the real reasons why people feel estranged in their lives – it’s a cynical and simplistic political ruse that keeps everyone alienated, writes Hardeep Matharu

The Non-Solution to Life’s Struggles

‘Today, I feel like I’ve woken up a stranger in this country.’

I was discussing the ‘shock vote’ for Brexit with another remainer on the afternoon after the EU Referendum. Immediately described as a “protest”, one newspaper noted that, after years of people ‘waking up and feeling like strangers in their own country’, those who voted to leave had finally demanded to be heard.

That was the last reference to British estrangement I remember, before Keir Starmer’s recent speech on the need to stop the UK becoming an “island of strangers”.

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