Britain’s immigration debate is no longer about visas or small boats. It has become a referendum on who belongs and whether the state can still balance compassion with control. For the past decade, British debates over immigration were waged in the technocratic register: visa caps, asylum processing times, small-boat interdictions. That register has collapsed.
When Israeli forces struck Hamas leaders in Doha, they did not merely eliminate a few operatives; they violated the territory of a US-aligned ally, upended Qatar’s delicate role as mediator, and signaled that even the most carefully maintained diplomatic spaces in the Gulf are now battlefields.
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