Time to Emigrate?What is nowadays the point for the young who are neither rich nor on benefits in Britain? 'Time to Emigrate?' is a searing indictment of the future of life in Britain. It focuses on the prospects for a young family on a modest income living in a dramatically changing Britain, and asks whether they should consider emigration. |
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Page 51
... never be able to afford and you will never need . Alternatively they're selling themselves as cleaners , gar- deners , builders . Most are male and all of them seem to be between 20-35 . Indians , Pakistanis , Afghans or East Europeans ...
... never be able to afford and you will never need . Alternatively they're selling themselves as cleaners , gar- deners , builders . Most are male and all of them seem to be between 20-35 . Indians , Pakistanis , Afghans or East Europeans ...
Page 167
... never use their title , from sheer embarrassment , but they do , they do ! And the British are supposed to have a sense of the ridicu- lous . It's as if I were to go around with my Order of the Dannebrog round my neck , a Danish ...
... never use their title , from sheer embarrassment , but they do , they do ! And the British are supposed to have a sense of the ridicu- lous . It's as if I were to go around with my Order of the Dannebrog round my neck , a Danish ...
Page 223
... never existed . ( And by the way the word nostalgia , I recently learned , began as a mental illness : nostos = home- land and algia = pain . No offence . ) The trouble in your case is that you are at home , but it doesn't feel like it ...
... never existed . ( And by the way the word nostalgia , I recently learned , began as a mental illness : nostos = home- land and algia = pain . No offence . ) The trouble in your case is that you are at home , but it doesn't feel like it ...
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