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TfL £5Bn short for Crossrail
On 23 May, 10:10, TimB wrote:
On May 22, 6:15 pm, Arthur Figgis wrote: wrote: If poor airports are capable of wrecking an economy then the US is screwed. In my experience any foreigner is made to feel entirely unwelcome and treated with intense suspicion as you enter the country, thanks to those nice chaps at the Department of Homeland Security. *I don't think it's dawned on the US government how much that's going to put people off studying or working in the states, which over the medium term is going to do some pretty nasty things to its economy Chap I know is off to Boston or somewhere on business next week, and reckons he was entirely unwelcome and treated with intense suspicion just getting to the stage of the visa interview, never mind actually going... -- Arthur Figgis * * * * * * * Surrey, UK Funnily enough, a chap I know went to Boston a couple of months ago, for a six-month fellowship at Harvard. Couldn't get a visa appointment in London within any reasonable time-scale so had to fly to Belfast and stay overnight. The interview took about two minutes. So a total waste of time, money and carbon emissions (this is a guy who cycles/ trains everywhere and doesn't have a car, so was annoyed by this) - but at the end of the day, once he got through all the bureaucratic obstructionism, he was welcomed with open arms. So, a bit of both. *They risk affecting their universities as well as the economy. Over the long term, the universities are the economy - one of the reasons the US has done so well over the last century is the amount poured into practical academic research. The fact that Harvard and Stanford attract bright people from all over the world has done wonders for the US economy. The fact that most European universities don't is one of the reasons Europe's a mess. Whoever said that the US authorities don't care about any of this is right. But give it twenty years and they'll wish they had. Jonn |
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