So, for example, 'the United Kingdom should have had more broad expatriate voting during Brexit' - expatriate is the right term there because we are referring to your relationship with the UK.
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Quick question: you follow me on here, yet you uh, seem to think I am anti-immigration. How have you got that impression?!
aug 29, 2025, 1:18 pm • 7 0 • view
I'm not suggesting you are personally anti immigration for one moment but this is a false argument. An Afgan living legally or illegally in the UK is also an expatriate due to their relationship with Afghanistan no?
aug 29, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not a false argument at all. As I have said, I would mostly refer to you as a British immigrant living in Greece. However, I have also written about the Chinese diaspora being spied on overseas, because again the relationship that is being written about is with China.
aug 29, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
You are asking that I account for a double standard that I don't have. When *in my work* do you think I have used the word 'expats' for white British people?
aug 29, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
You clearly have more knowledge of immigration than I do, and I'm not criticizing your writing, but trying to highlight how some British media seem to use the term 'immigrant' as threatening, but 'expat' as a positive
aug 29, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, I am aware, but as I said, I am not the whole of the British media. Frankly unclear what you are actually after? What do you want from me, precisely?
aug 29, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
How about a free subscription to the FT.....
aug 29, 2025, 1:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Was it the right term in this article? bsky.app/profile/will...
aug 29, 2025, 1:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It doesn't appear anywhere in the article, but yes, it is absolutely the right word in the headline, for the basic reason that 'immigrant' wouldn't fit the remaining space.
aug 29, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a good piece and in general I would strongly urge you to actually give what we write a read. Pieces are free if you register!
aug 29, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Thanks for imfo, have reg. Not sure why immigrants couldn't be fitted in, but either way have read it and it does mention expats in the graph title aswell as 'new residents', 'wealthy newcomers' It doesn't mention immigrants Not picking on you as it's not your article Thanks again for reg advice
aug 29, 2025, 1:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Because, if you look at the picture I screenshotted for you, there isn't space left in the headline. I also, as I've said, just don't accept the premise. For example, most of our pro-immigration pieces, as I have posted, use the word 'immigrant'.
aug 29, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
You have posted a lot of critical replies in my mentions and that's fine, but you should maybe...read the paper first?
aug 29, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm not sure I have posted many critical replies? I disagreed with you about how to deal with Farage and I think the FT frame rich expats and immigrants differently, but I said that wasn't down to you If I have given that impression, it wasn't my intention as I agree with a lot of your posts
aug 29, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I write more about immigration than any other single FT writer, though. The “immigrants = bad” thing, it’s not true of our paper or that article, and the reason I know that is a large chunk of our writing on this topic is from me
aug 29, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Okay, thanks for the discussion
aug 29, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
NP, thanks for the polite responses!
aug 29, 2025, 2:50 pm • 1 0 • view