Yes! I thought *exactly* this after speaking to several people in the sector recently.

The Observer understands that the immigration white paper is scheduled for w/c 12th May - and the local election results have ratcheted up the pressure on DfE over foreign students observer.co.uk/news/politic...

A flat white is £2.15

My default assumption about West Yorkshire police is not that they are too woke. But if the Telegraph says so…

“We lost a lot of people during Covid… and most of them are still alive.” Kept thinking of this Joe Rogan line while working on this project with @chefboibex.bsky.social

A great listen that goes far wider than the memecoins scandal. Worth listening to the end!

EV sales v Tesla sales Is it politics in China, or just that Chinese EVs are now better? Excellent Chart of the Week from @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

Excellent second mention: the hoofed mammals.

Isabel Oakeshott as a lagging indicator

Enjoyed joining @paticlarke.bsky.social and Charlene White on the @tortoisemedia.bsky.social News Meeting, discussing: 🇩🇪 German elections 📱 Encryption ⚖️ Joint enterprise I changed my passwords after listening to Patricia!

Wondered what it would take to split far right from centre right, and the two wedges so far are: - Ukraine - ethnic nationalism

How was Konstantin Kisin ever a stand-up comedian? “An Englishmen, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. By this I mean all their parents are white. They have pure white blood. Anyway…”

Some amazing jobs in journalism here 👇🏾

Enjoyed hosting this podcast: discussing Joan Didion’s diary, the rise of Reform and US steel tariffs.

Joan Didion’s private diary is set for posthumous publication this April, even though she left no instructions for it. Debated the ethics of this on this week’s News Meeting podcast with @jeevanvasagar.bsky.social @ktriley.bsky.social and @catneilan.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1xjy...

Very easy to mock this, but “the affordability of good private schooling” is clearly something the British middle class took for granted in the 1980s and 90s, but no longer.