<scratches head> Uhhhh, you can do it on your own authority

FFS.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Algiers seeks to sideline speaking French in favor of English

Some guy on TikTok is threatening to release the Grindr profile of Mike Johnson. Please human, please don’t let God down. 🙏

Also pointedly, CPB says this is a grant-making decision, "never a statutory mandate," and that the new org better met CPB’s requirements, including for governance and sustainability.

“Miller and the rest abhor the word ‘fascist’ because they know it fairly describes their politics and they worry that, as more Americans come to recognize that, the country might turn against the nationalist project. As the saying goes: A hit dog will holler.” thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...

Elon Musk’s X is the “go-to platform for antisemitic posters,” according to a new year-long study shared exclusively with CNN: https://cnn.it/3Wbsj0W

exactly like the Chinese surveillance state

Bribes everywhere

This isn't a bad game so far. West Ham are woeful, but they are giving it a go and only 1-0 down at the moment.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

this is wild bc i saw some of the comments emma watson made and they were considerate enough of joanne that i was disappointed in emma watson lmao

Snoops is ready to sack some people off his FPL team…

For 126 years the VFW has stood for America’s veterans and their families. Now veterans and the VFW are getting squeezed, and a Republican shutdown could make things even worse. I’m going to keep standing up for our veterans, their services and their jobs, no matter how tough or how long the fight.

If she does this, the gap between her policy and Farage's will narrow considerably. Retrospective legislation is the choice of tinpot dictators and intellectual vegetables. It means no-one could take Britain's word seriously.

There is a key moral distinction between immigration policy on new arrivals, no matter how draconian, and on people who have already been granted status, on set conditions. It is about being a country that keeps its word. If we're not that, we might as well fucking give up now.

Chiesa has a "little niggle" and that's why he's not travelled. #lfc #Redsky #YNWA

imagine being a consultant doctor here and having to go out litter picking to be given your citizenship lol www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At RAMS Park to hear from Arne Slot and Hugo Ekitike ahead of tomorrow's Champions League meeting with Galatasaray. Updates to come from 7pm. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/footba...

Also very little of this is new, though it is being aggressively pitched as such. It isn’t a response to Reform’s ILR announcement last week because nearly everything in this policy was announced months ago by Starmer and Mahmood’s predecessor Cooper when they published the immigration white paper.

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’ chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Just got my Covid vaccine and asked if they’ve been busy. The nurse said they were worried people wouldn’t come in, but they’re getting lots of demand. Good going, herd! Resisting propaganda saves lives.

Speaking as an immigrant in higher education… THIS 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Literally everyone I know with indefinite leave to remain is either in the NHS or education - so I’m not sure how they can prove they’ve contributed more to society than they’ve always done. They’ve certainly done more than any no mark Labour politician whose sat on their lazy arse their entire life

a fun fact about me is that the photo of Derren Brown that is used for Wikipedia is a photo of him talking to me

Whatever

We need an AI-free, billionaire-free free press. When we find a good one we need to support it. Out of the ashes of the Observer something promising arises…

Oooooo-kay…. Something something something price of a plane something something bribery something, etc etc

Uhhhhh

I came to the UK in 1988 as a confirmed Anglophile and left 30 years later, wiping the dust of England off my feet. So there is an element of Aesop's "the fox who lost his tail" here, but IMO: Any EU citizen in the UK should now develop an outline "plan B" to get out within 6 months if necessary.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

It’s crazy that they’re making it out as if Melania walking up a stopped escalator was her own Omaha Beach….

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

We should be looking for the missing Alligator Auschwitz detainees at Fort Bliss in Montana. Why is not one allowed to do an audit of who is actually there?

On ILR and student grants, Labour have given partly progressive signals in recent days (especially on latter), but then immediately countered them by putting some heavily regressive elements into the mix *on the same issues*. That isn’t triangulating the message , it’s simply cancelling it out!

I suspect the govt wants a further reduction in provision but it is too cowardly to own that and actually have to justify a plan for what that should look like.

So the govt finally deigns to say something about the HE sector only to demonstrate it really has no idea what is going on out in most universities. I despair.

Jonathan Powell writes of the Blair 2005 speech in defence of immigration 'it didn't gain us any support, but without it our vote would have been driven down', and we're living through the proof that he was right.

In addition to the normative points, I am once again tapping the sign marked 'net immigration to the UK in 2029 will still be, in relative terms, very high, and the government needs to have a position that allows it to defend what the Actually Existing UK looks like'.

trying to suggest that *any* millennial woman, let alone a famous one, never truly experienced sexism or harassment is errrrrrrrrrr quite the departure from reality

The idea seems to be that I’ll be so grateful for Labour calling Farage’s policy what it is that I’ll happily accept the state ordering my spouse to clean up shit on the street for free, on pain of separation and deportation. Come on man!

Is Nigel Farage racist? "Because many of the things that he does and says, I think, drift into racism... It's hard to escape that conclusion." Education sec Bridget Philipson speaks to @jonsopel1.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com. www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/brid...

If the US wants to go back to being a respectable country in the eyes of the world, I think charging Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth with premeditated murder is going to be a necessary step.

Sounds as if international student fee levy is staying in place to fund maintenance grants for underprivileged students "on courses in line with govt's industrial strategy". What a mockery. What a nonsense. Utter failure to understand the HE sector, across the board, as an international success.

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it *incredibly* disturbing that the president of the US is very clearly losing his goddamned mind, but most of the media steadfastly refuse to even mention it.

Left-wing terrorism surpassing right-wing terrorism because the fringe-right's agenda is also the president's isn't really an indictment of the left! www.pbump.net/o/how-trumpw...

Detail will be important but this is an important announcement. Since Osborne’s abolition of grants we’ve had the invidious situation where the poorest students have been getting more indebted than richer ones, who are supported by parents. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Poor kids paying more tuition debt for longer, compounding existing inequality. One of those policies which media will ignore but which will make a difference.