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"The government's argument sounds plausible. There's just one problem. It doesn't fit the facts. And the government knows it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Overall the Home Office thinks 5%+ of potential students will now be put off coming. Is that really worth the pain? What an indictment of Closed Britain, autarkic Britain, stagnant Britain - sinking into the warm bath of managed decline.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

'Hey universities, we know you're going broke, here's a 6% tax on your only surplus source of income'. Another miserable day in British Higher Education.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Immigration is good. Immigration makes Britain better. Immigration is the lifeblood of any and every successful society. Without Immigration Britain cannot prosper. Without Immigration you cannot have the economy and society you want. That is all.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Are Labour right to cut migrants’ rights to citizenship? Is this latest attempt to signal xenophobia finally going to see off Reform? Am I in line to be the next Pope? 3 questions, 1 simple answer🤦‍♀️

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here. [1/?] www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Just pull the Student Numbers Controls lever. I'm not saying there are no political consequences, it's just you can't be scared of moving away from the model a very unsuccessful government left behind in every policy area. And not doing so will be worse.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

When both parties responsible for Brexit campaign against independent trade deals, you do have to wonder what the point of it was

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

My advice to university colleagues who believe themselves likely to be affected is to (i) boost their savings as much as they can, (ii) get as much into their pensions as they can and (iii) pay down their mortgages as quickly as they can. That's all the individual agency they have now really.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

uses time machine to burst into a room ten years ago "I don't have much time, but for the love of god choose Chaos with Ed Miliband™ "

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

Let's be clear: a single person, administration and policy choice bear most of the responsibility for what's going on in universities. By dissolving any semblance of a planning or numbers system, George Osborne set in motion a process that could only and inevitably bring the HE sector to its knees.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Today I have received by email: one disproof of the Riemann hypothesis, one proof that P =/= NP, one proof of the Riemann hypothesis, and one proof that Peano arithmetic is inconsistent (which follows from the two Riemann hypothesis papers, but this was an independent discovery).

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

The signs of distress coming in now from all over the university system are endemic and very painful. Just endless awful news, much worse than it looks in the press. ☹️

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Hahahaha, wait until the unis start going bust and both him and his party fo a screeching u-turn. Comic cosplay villainy.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The University of Derby employs more people than Toyota's UK factory. If you had to chose one to go bust what would it be?

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Great article - You help "left behind" areas by helping the nearest big city. Our problem is the relative economic weakness of our big cities outside London.

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

"Staggeringly, an estimated 1.2 million illegal immigrants now live here. " Not that any of our intrepid media class will bother to say anything, but this is a flat-out lie from Farage. archive.ph/iPEN9

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

submitted 20 days ago • 138 comments

Howling.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

“Our priority is reducing net migration,” a Home Office source said. "Growth is the number one priority of this government... ...making sure everyone is better off." - the Prime Minister. To govern is to choose - let's see if he meant what he said... www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

submitted 25 days ago • 288 comments

If you know, you know

submitted 23 days ago • 507 comments

"Good morning, Mr Vice-President. The good news is that no one's going to be talking about you fucking a couch anymore."

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Going through Reform candidates for the locals and a lot of them sound like Downton Abbey characters. In Wiltshire I've found an Aurelia Margaret Amherst Stephenson and a Violette Ruth Francina Simpson.

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments

Easter Sunday! And how Tradition works. By @nakedpastor.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Excellent point from John Kingman (via @samfr.bsky.social). He's also right about massively expanding Oxford-Cambridge. And saving the North Sea.

submitted 36 days ago • 14 comments

"Ministers and their civil servants have been told to set aside policy work that does not boost growth, or puts excess regulation on businesses." Good to hear. So the Immigration White Paper will aim to increase student and skilled worker migration. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains the fundamental flaws in Trumps approach to trade. @democracynow.org (IG) @MomSky 💸

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

submitted 29 days ago • 219 comments

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

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submitted 31 days ago • 38 comments

As an American living in the UK, I keep thinking of @davidallengreen.bsky.social's reminder to us over the years that constitutional law should be boring, because government should hum quietly in the background, not live out Titus Andronicus.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

I choose to believe that somewhere, there is a shopping centre with a florist called Les Fleurs Du Mall.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

In case you missed it ... Here's a damning verdict from the Intelligence & Security Committee regarding Boris Johnson's half-baked report into Russian interference in the Brexit ref. Basically, they didn't even bother looking for any! Surely now it's time for a public enquiry into Putin's Brexit!

submitted 35 days ago • 65 comments

Back in 2016 @adamposen.bsky.social said Brexit was like the UK "declaring a trade war on itself". Now, Trump has taken the US down the same route. The self destruction of sado-populism (and the same right wing Russian allied forces at work in both)

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 36 days ago • 879 comments

Another very worrying thought occurs: people who won't resign over this will never resign over anything. That's terrifying when you think of what might lie ahead. 🇺🇸

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs. So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary. If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.

submitted 35 days ago • 18 comments

At a time when international students and scholars are turning away from America, instead of seizing this opportunity, Number 10 have a steely focus on winning the Runcorn by-election to help defend their wafer-thin majority of 174 seats.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 37 days ago • 314 comments

This is high art

submitted 38 days ago • 543 comments

It's all so stupid. Different to the usual sudden shocks. There's debts you didn't really understand, or a new disease, or a terrorist attack, or a new industry it's hard to regulate, or gaps in the law. But this is entirely deliberate and was made in a single moment when that stupid board came out.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

🎶 you know the day destroys the night night divides the day tried to run tried to hide BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE

submitted 347 days ago • 20 comments

The opening lines to Springsteen's next album.

submitted 40 days ago • 28 comments