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Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT

WE are all Africans. If this comes as a nasty shock to any pure-bred Brits you know, break it to them gently. Their DNA is almost exactly the same as everybody else throughout the world.
And, in as far as there are differences, they are as likely to vary as much between near neighbours in any part of the world as they are to be different from anyone on the other side of the world. And not by a very significant amount.
Of course, for our pure-bred Brit inclined to vote for Reform UK, the Tories or Keir Starmer’s Labour, where the policy differences are hardly more differentiated than the DNA of British voters, such facts, even when acknowledged, don’t change much in their mode of thought.
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