> Is the cheating due to this language gap, though, or would they have cheated anyway? A bit of both, most likely. If their English is not good enough to study

> Is the cheating due to this language gap, though, or would they have cheated anyway? A bit of both, most likely. If their English is not good enough to study in then they have to cheat or fail, so they should never have been admitted. Obviously cheating needs to be stopped in general, but this group of students gives universities an incentive to turn a blind eye to it. > I'm just not sure what to think when the article cites mere anecdotes (of opposing statements at that) That is the state of journalism. Lots of BBC stories are like that. > and the argument fits great with the recent shift in voting behaviour. If you mean the shift of traditional Labour areas to Conservative and vice-versa that has been happening for a long time, its just reached the point where seats start shifting in our first past the post system in recent elections. In general Labour voters have lost working class votes, and gained more affluent voters. There have been other interesting movements such as Catholics switching from Labour to Conservative, as have ethnic minorities. If you mean the performance of Reform in the last election I think that is largely because of the deep unpopularity of the last Conservative government, and the perception that Labour are no different (which the new government seems determined to prove true). While Reform is an anti-immigrant party, I do not think most of their voters are. My experience (as ethnic minority British) is that the UK is a lot less racist than it was in the 1980s - my lifetime as seen a pretty much continual decline of racism.