Flee country: Britain seeks to slash migration

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  And I'm Rosie Bloor.

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  Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  In an age of satellites and cutting-edge aircraft and drones big and small,

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  You might think balloons are the military technology only of the past.

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  Nope, they too have had high-tech makeovers and armed forces are using ever more of them.

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  And Gillian Tyndall was a historian who believed that by illuminating the lives of ordinary people,

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  she illuminated so much more.

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  She saw the layers of the past all around her.

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  In the streets she walked, in the houses she visited, our obituary's editor remembers her.

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  But first...

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  Russians seem to be obsessed with immigration.

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  In recent months there have been protests and even riots about housing asylum seekers in hotels.

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  Regular migration provokes strong reaction too.

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  Not to mention the rise of the populist reform party,

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  many attribute its success in part to its hard-line approach on migrants,

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  all of which spurred Britain's Labour government this week to unveil its own reforms that represent a dramatic shift in Britain's stance on asylum and immigration.

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  I wish it were possible to say that there isn't a problem here,

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