🌷It's starting to feel a bit like spring, which can only mean... It's time for the UKICE economics panel! Join @anandmenon.bsky.social, @jdportes.bsky.social, @jillongovt.bsky.social & @ruthcurtice.bsky.social online for a discussion on politics and the UK economy 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

Greater Manchester Police statement: "We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting."

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

pity is 💯 accurate if you live in the UK and are interested in HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR, here is the separate pre-order link from our UK publisher, Pan Macmillan www.panmacmillan.com/authors/soum...

Finally. Well done them 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Buy one. If only out of pity. And check out @soumayakeynes.ft.com and her trade songs sometime too......

There is something profoundly unserious about demanding the country spends vast sums on reducing its carbon emissions and then calling for a massive fossil fuel subsidy to consumers the moment gas prices rise.

"The enemy gets a vote." From Earl Grey to Ed Miliband, political reform rarely works quite as intended. My newsletter, out now.

📺 Catch up now 📺 📆 Yesterday, we were joined online by @sarahobolt.bsky.social, James Tilley, @catneilan.bsky.social and @anandmenon.bsky.social To hear their analysis of how Brexit dividing lines still influence British politics, you can watch back the event here 👇 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

🌎 Among the many victims of the current turmoil in global politics has been the multilateral system that has underpinned the world order since WWII Our report offers expert analysis of the crises that these institutions and systems face 👇 🔗 https://ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/multilateralism-in-crisis/

"Brexit was about political failure pre-2016 [...] a failure to understand how dissatisfied people were before. The absence of a response to the referendum [was] another massive political failure. It’s a failure we may all come to regret" Typically cheery (and correct) from @anandmenon.bsky.social

I regret to announce that I am now so old that I text myself the number of the locker I've used at the gym to avoid the inevitable embarrassment when I come out.

My Cambridge lecture on the impact of Brexit has now been published and is available online. The major lesson I draw from it is that things that kind of work when you're saying them don't necessarily work in print www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

⏰ 30 minutes to go ⏰ Tune in to hear our experts discuss how Brexit dividing lines continue to influence how politics plays out in the UK With @anandmenon.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social, James Tilley & @catneilan.bsky.social Follow along here 👉 app.sli.do/event/s3btKD...

Looking good, FPTP

We also put out a rather good report on post-Brexit regulation 😉 (H/T @jdportes.bsky.social )

The vibes are increasingly like a mixture between “Veep” and “The death of Stalin”

🚨 TOMORROW 🚨 🇬🇧 Join our expert panel as they discuss how Brexit dividing lines influence British politics With @anandmenon.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social, James Tilley and @catneilan.bsky.social 📆 Tues 24 March, 1pm GMT 💻 Online 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

If you want to know more about Brexit, and how it divided Britian, join our lunchtime online UKICE panel tomorrow 13:00 GMT I am very much looking forward to our discussion! 👇

Do the costs of alignment with the EU outweigh the benefits? My letter for The Times drawing on some fascinating work by Public First www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

#Slovenia 🇸🇮 #elections today. #newparties #volatility #electoralthresolds #campaigning a primer from Alenka Krasovec & me @catherinedevries.bsky.social @casmudde.bsky.social @timbale.bsky.social @anandmenon.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/the-old-and-...

Ending free movement "led to a modest rise in the number of foreign born workers in the UK, but a dramatic shift in their countries of origin." 💥 New analysis from @jdportes.bsky.social & @johnspringford.bsky.social on the impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-impact-o...

It really is sweet how excited the English are about having discovered turmeric......

⏰ COMING SOON ⏰ 👀 The next instalment of the UK in a Changing Europe podcast is a regulation special 🎙️ @anandmenon.bsky.social, @jillongovt.bsky.social & @jreland.bsky.social discuss it all - from the take back control agenda to the current govt.'s ambitions for closer alignment with the EU

✍️ Sign up now ✍️ 🇬🇧 Join our expert panel as they discuss how Brexit dividing lines still affect British politics With @anandmenon.bsky.social, @sarahobolt.bsky.social, James Tilley and @catneilan.bsky.social 📆 Tues 24 March, 1pm GMT 💻 Online 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

I say again that anyone who thinks Jews, or any minority group, are better off in a world where senior politicians feel comfortable with overt racism is an idiot of the highest order.

After Brexit, the Eu has moved more quickly in some areas of regulation than us. One example being data mining. Me on some fascinating Public First research www.cityam.com/data-mining-...

'Rachel Reeves wants loads more alignment? I want a unicorn.' Me for the New Statesman on what the Chancellow said about Brexit in her lecture www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

“Equally, there is no shortage of EU firms that rather enjoy their UK competitors struggling to trade in the single market.” @anandmenon.bsky.social telling us how it is. www.independent.co.uk/voices/rache...

"The EU won’t save Rachel Reeves - Domestic politics cannot dictate our post-Brexit settlement" 🗞️ @anandmenon.bsky.social shared some thoughts with the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social on the government's new approach to UK-EU relations 🔗🔒 Link behind paywall www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

"The govt. thinks it has found a way of doing something far more ambitious than the current reset while respecting its own red lines... The problem is that the EU is not as enthusiastic. " ✍️ @anandmenon.bsky.social on the UK-EU reset ahead of Reeve's Mais lecture 🇬🇧🇪🇺 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/here-we-go-a...

"The EU isn't doing reset negotiations with us to do us any favours. It's doing reset negotiations to get what it wants... And one of the things they want is greater mobility for young people." 🎙️ @anandmenon.bsky.social was on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social to discuss the UK-EU reset

Fascinating book. Should be a really good discussion. Sign up before it’s too late!

This show was a blast. @andrewmueller.bsky.social was on absolutely cracking form, and it is always a pleasure to hang out with the brilliant @anandmenon.bsky.social

I'm honoured that my book Tribal Politics w/ James Tilley has been reviewed by Vishnu & the Politically In/sane podcast Follow the great podcast: @politicallyinsane.bsky.social If you'd like, the book can be ordered here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 🎟️ use promotion code AUFLY30 to save 30%

One standing arm wavy theory I have about politics is that mobilisation of existing attitudes is very often mistaken for a shift in those attitudes. Strong views can become more visible socially or politically even if underlying mix of attitudes haven’t changed (or have even shifted the other way)

We’ve left. That means things will change. You charge us to trade, we charge you to study 🤷🏾‍♂️ www.politico.eu/article/eu-i...

'we should all be able to celebrate...the flags that represent the nations of our union'. Is it too much to expect the Education Secretary to add 'we abhor racism and will do all we can to make sure all children, whatever their colour or creed, feel safe'? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I agree. If you want more detail, including on the complexity of dynamic alignment with a constantly shifting EU regulatory landscape, try our Lords European Affairs Cttee report of last November. Marginal impact on GDP if all current negotiations succeed. publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

'Yes, Brexit has had a significant impact on our economy. But it is precisely those aspects of it that are causing the most harm to which the government is determined to cling that have exerted the largest impact'. An improbable sentence. By me. ukandeu.ac.uk/here-we-go-a...

Finger on the geopolitical pulse, as always.

Good summary of 'where we are' with the reset

If you're going on about badgers at this point, you need to get out more.

Talking about the economic impact of Brexit is one thing. Doing something about is something else entirely. Me for @ukandeu.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/here-we-go-a...

Turns out that if you spend most of the allotted time rhetorically grandstanding under the guise of asking a question, you run out of time to hear any answers.

New research by me @jdportes.bsky.social: we find that the end of free movement and the new immigration regime rather modestly raised the number of foreign-born workers in Britain – by about 200,000 in 2024. Thread. www.cer.eu/insights/imp...

In contrast to Labour's accusations of a Conservative "open borders experiment", @jdportes.bsky.social & @johnspringford.bsky.social find that #Brexit and the new immigration regime raised the number of foreign-born workers in the UK by a modest 200,000. New @CER_EU insight: buff.ly/u1TuLFx

The impact of Brexit on foreign-born workers in the UK - my analysis with @johnspringford.bsky.social now in @voxeu.org cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Christ. I almost feel sorry for Spurs.

⏰ 30 minutes to go ⏰ 🪖 Don't miss our online panel on European security 💻 Tune in to hear analysis from @anandmenon.bsky.social, @armida.bsky.social, @constelz.bsky.social & @lscazzieri.bsky.social on the key challenges and how Europe should respond Follow along here 👇 app.sli.do/event/aCFZTK...