According to Whitehall And The Jews, 1933-1948 (Cambridge University Press), Louise London’s definitive account of British immigration policy and the Holocaust, “The process...was designed to keep out large numbers of European Jews - perhaps 10 times as many as it let in.” Around 70,000 had been admitted by the outbreak of the war, but British Jewish associations had some half a million more case files of those who had not.

As you can see, have been and has been have the same related usage and meaning. The main difference between them is the form that is determined by the subject performing the action. When and How to Use Had Been My name is David Hoffmann and for the last decade I have been traveling around the world in search of unique culture, food and history! News Blog Culture, media & sport Lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) people have always existed and always will exist. We are not going anywhere, and we’re certainly not a trend. In addition, the PCC doesn’t have the resources, he maintains, “to take up general observations and complaints from anyone who chooses to write in to us in the whole country. If we did, no one with a genuine grievance would get any help from us.” But the PCC sometimes does issue a statement on a particular subject, so why not on this? “We do if relevant groups approach us, but we’d want to consult widely to make sure we said something new. It’s a serious matter, but there are all sorts of other matters: the list could be endless, so we have to respond to requests.” After the deadline, those who have failed to apply will gradually be transformed from legal residents into undocumented migrants. In the hostile environment – the obstructive and unwelcoming bureaucratic culture promoted by Theresa May when she was home secretary – they will be unable to work, rent somewhere to live, access free healthcare, drive, open a bank account, get a mobile phone contract or travel without being asked to prove their status. They will gradually discover that normal life has become impossible.

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Also read: Book Review| Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe’s Masterpiece That Fails To Represent Women When he was older, he asked his mother to help him wear traditional male dress and went travelling as a Viking. He later returned to taking on the role of a woman, but this is why it is so important for us to understand people within their cultural contexts: our view of what ‘trans’ means now is not universal, but Hervard certainly acted in a way that challenged conventional gender in his culture. Navigating a range of spatial logic, the book is about Samra Habib, a Pakistani-Canadian photographer, and her experience as a queer-identified Muslim woman who spent years in search of something as basic as “safety”, which by the virtue of being a human is the bare minimum one can expect of: from one’s country, society and community. Though the virulence of recent press coverage seemed temporarily to abate, it has been reignited by the Eurotunnel affair and the plan to establish rural “accommodation centres”. The tabloid press uses the language of “invasion”, as if by an enemy. But, of course, there’s nothing intrinsically illegal about most asylum seekers. Their illegality has been created by the asylum system. And often they’re “sans papiers” because the regimes from which they’re fleeing aren’t considerate enough to give documentation to those whom they are persecuting.

I asked her what would you want to know if you were me now, and you could see this coming – what would you do? She suggested pacing first and foremost – learn to pace properly. I had never really understood what pacing was – I thought it was to do what you’re doing, but do it more slowly. As a rule, the word "been" is always used after "to have" (in any of its forms, e.g., "has," "had," "will have," "having"). Conversely, the word "being" is never used after "to have." "Being" is used after "to be" (in any of its forms, e.g., "am," "is," "are," "was," "were"). A typically baffling illustration of the difficulty is the fact that Britain now has more Jews than Germany ever had. If a further accretion of, say, 100,000 of them come into the country, how could the danger be averted of an anti-Jewish feeling here?” Meanwhile, all over Europe, about 1.4 million expatriate Britons are anxiously monitoring the scheme, aware that their own treatment could depend largely on how generously the UK government treats EU citizens.In Samra’s words, which best sums it up, “Queer Muslims who fear for their lives every day- while walking down the streets of Punjabi villages or meeting a potential love interest for the first time in Tehran through a dating app- might not have the tools to understand the language written by academics in Ivy League schools”. The question of spaces, of representation thus become critical in reminding the world that they have always existed! But, as this was the early days of YouTube, I also saw young American travelers being wild and crazy and seeing lots of success by doing it. So, I adopted another, wilder personality for my nightlife videos. It was too much and I think the handful of viewers who watched those videos could tell I wasn’t being myself. Today, the government wants immigrants to be obliged to learn English and undergo citizenship courses. In the 1930s, German Jewish refugees were urged to learn English and refrain from speaking German. Daniel Snowman, in his book about refugees from Nazi Germany, The Hitler Emigrés (Chatto & Windus), describes a typical north London refugee salon, dripping with music and art: “A ghetto? Yes, in a way. But those who formed it would have disavowed the name and simply regarded themselves as reproducing the style and quality of life they had been forced to abandon.” The Kosovan Albanians, Afghans and Sri Lankans living in Britain would doubtless say the same. The Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig distinguished between assimilating into someone else’s culture, causing the extinction of one’s own distinct identity and history, and assimilating into one’s own culture the most valuable and enriching aspects of someone else’s. It’s a distinction the British have yet to appreciate. What’s more, those that were granted entry were admitted only because the Jewish community guaranteed that it would bear all the expenses of accommodation and maintenance, with no burden placed on the public purse. Elsewhere, Canada accommodated only 5,000 European Jews between 1933 and 1945, Australia 10,000, South Africa some 6,000. And the US’s unyielding quota system meant that, between 1933 and 1937, only 33,000 German Jews were admitted (and only 124,000 between 1938 and 1941). So basically I’m long COVID four years on – this is what it looks like,’ she says. ‘I do feel for the people with long COVID.

Samra Habib spent her early years in Pakistan, born to Ahmadi Muslims parents, a sect that has faced denouncement and continues to remain a target for religious persecution due to their differing beliefs from the general Islamic preaching. While that identity traps Samra in one way, the process of coming to terms with her queerness is another facet which complicates her identity in a society wherein homosexuality is still a crime.

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The Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, meanwhile, tried to find academic posts for elite scientists and researchers. It isn’t fanciful to imagine current asylum seekers making similar contributions to those made by the Jewish prewar and postwar immigrants. It’s chastening when one of the loudest, clearest voices urging positive reporting of asylum seekers comes from the police. ACPO, in its Policing Guide To Asylum Seekers And Refugees, published last year, reminds its media spokespeople that the numbers of asylum seekers in Britain are marginal, that they’re “real people who need our urgent support and in time could make a valuable contribution”, that “we have a history of absorbing other cultures...and being an asylum seeker is no fun”, and that they should “encourage direct media involvement in the integration of asylum seekers, offering positive stories at every possible opportunity”. Because the Home Office had ruled him illegal, his employers, the Peabody Trust, were obliged to make him redundant, despite the fact that he was a trusted and highly regarded employee who had been with them for a decade. The years he spent working as a maintenance worker for British Rail, a plumber and later as a senior caretaker for the housing association, and the tax he had paid over 35 years of working life, counted for nothing. Hoffmann was born to Venezuelan parents of Italian and Hungarian descent. Since then, he has been exposed to a diversified culture. There is only a little information exposed about his family. Still, within his feed, he had shared a video featuring hisfamily members. This almost flurry of research into long COVID contrasts with the experience of many with ME/CFS, who often have felt ignored or misunderstood by the medical profession. But for some, the interest in long COVID is an opportunity to learn more about the longer-term consequences of viral infections – which could, in time, also benefit people with ME/CFS.