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This Is Mighty Strange,
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don't you think?(the citizenship bit)
don't you think?(the citizenship bit)
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Q: Reason for wanting citizenship? A: I like this country, am a member of the Commonwealth with roots in England. Have tried to help the mother country in its war effort. And I wish it well. Verdict: You're out then. Same question, same assessor, different petitioner: A: Your culture, and morals are disgusting. But I like the idea of free housing. and the...
05:09 Sat 07th Mar 2015
usual spectrum of post-imperial gormlessness
My father met Laurence Hogben on a liner in Sep 1936 when he was on his way to Oxford and my father to a London medical school. They had both studied anthropology. Both sailing from South Africa to Liverpool and became friendly in the two weeks or so the voyage took. and then they lost contact
Hogben - the name- or this one's name rhymed with Hoburn as in viaduct wrote a foreword in a book called Loom of Language by Frank Bodmer ( 1944)
so I was particularly surprised to read that he was really/also a mathematician meterologist who was big on D day.
My father in 1958 naturalised from Sarth Efrican to British nationality with no difficulty whatsoever. Swear an oath and fill out a form. I remember him doing it.
so yes I was very very surprised to hear that a New Zealander had not clocked up enough air miles to do the same.
very surprised indeed - but I thought I was the only one who had noticed.
My father met Laurence Hogben on a liner in Sep 1936 when he was on his way to Oxford and my father to a London medical school. They had both studied anthropology. Both sailing from South Africa to Liverpool and became friendly in the two weeks or so the voyage took. and then they lost contact
Hogben - the name- or this one's name rhymed with Hoburn as in viaduct wrote a foreword in a book called Loom of Language by Frank Bodmer ( 1944)
so I was particularly surprised to read that he was really/also a mathematician meterologist who was big on D day.
My father in 1958 naturalised from Sarth Efrican to British nationality with no difficulty whatsoever. Swear an oath and fill out a form. I remember him doing it.
so yes I was very very surprised to hear that a New Zealander had not clocked up enough air miles to do the same.
very surprised indeed - but I thought I was the only one who had noticed.
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