This is an important chart from @brankomilan.bsky.social below. But the UK story is *very* different, as this chart shows.

The Government has rightly identified that we're in the fight of our lives, for the soul of our nation. But thus far they don't seem to really appreciate that means we need to fight, in the same way our opponents are, with all the tools we have. Someone wake up the Culture Sec

A Blair-length essay on the Blair essay. Contains radical proposals open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

📆 23 June marks a decade since the EU referendum 💥 Join us, @policyatkings.bsky.social & @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social for an evening of drinks & discussion as we reflect on 10 years of Brexit 👀 And for a look at some exclusive new polling 📍In London or online Sign up 👉 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/10-ye...

The economics of Brexit, 10 years on. My summary. ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-ten-y...

Have already identified outright neo-Nazis at the Southampton rally supposedly about Henry Nowak (his family have been clear they don't want hate & division). Also aware of at least one prominent activist there who has a weapons conviction.

Appreciating it's a buzzword currently but this is just elite radicalisation. There is no significant constituency in the UK for this sort of open racial animus, and yet it has totally permeated the right's "intellectual" spaces.

This is an important chart from @brankomilan.bsky.social below. But the UK story is *very* different, as this chart shows.

The economics of Brexit, 10 years on. My summary. ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-ten-y...

THREAD Senior Labour MP Emily Thornberry, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, tore into Starmer government last night on Palestine. "We knew and we have to remember that recognition was only the first step. Where is the second step, where is the tenth step, what are we doing?

The BBC have invented Goodwin's Law: any political discussion programme must include a Nazi.

This is a very good summary of the economics of Brexit

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.

Wonderfully meta. Anti-immigration economist and ideologue George Borjas wrote a paper claiming immigration policy researchers (vast majority of whom, unlike him, are broadly positive about immigration) allowed their results to be driven by "ideology". Turns out it was a coding "error"...

"Brexit has made the UK economy smaller than it otherwise would have been... The effect has not been a sudden collapse, but a gradual and cumulative drag on trade, investment and productivity." ✍️ @jdportes.bsky.social looks at the economic impact of Brexit 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-ten-y...

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

@georginasturge.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

Wonderfully meta. Anti-immigration economist and ideologue George Borjas wrote a paper claiming immigration policy researchers (vast majority of whom, unlike him, are broadly positive about immigration) allowed their results to be driven by "ideology". Turns out it was a coding "error"...

Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...

This is just incoherent nonsense - "not even wrong". Just to take one obvious example, he praises the "iconoclastic Shadow Chancellorship of John McDonnell" - whose fiscal rules were based on @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social/my work...

New post: Immigration numbers and the media mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/06/immi... Public concern about immigration is still high simply because most don’t know that net immigration has fallen dramatically. This is a clear example of broadcast media failure.

This is just incoherent nonsense - "not even wrong". Just to take one obvious example, he praises the "iconoclastic Shadow Chancellorship of John McDonnell" - whose fiscal rules were based on @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social/my work...

Michael Gove publishes, in The Spectator, the explicit promotion of the racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, white nationalism and a call for Enoch Powell and NF "remigration" policies.

Yes, the Secretary of State for Health was incapable of taking over the Foreign Secretary's brief.

It was never really about jobs/crime/welfare benefits etc. @pkrugman.bsky.social's discussion of MAGA's real motives - cruelty and racism - applies almost verbatim to much the anti-immigration right here in politics/media/online paulkrugman.substack.com/p/pogroms-am...

It was never really about jobs/crime/welfare benefits etc. @pkrugman.bsky.social's discussion of MAGA's real motives - cruelty and racism - applies almost verbatim to much the anti-immigration right here in politics/media/online paulkrugman.substack.com/p/pogroms-am...

"British Future’s latest immigration tracker survey finds that more than half (55%) of the public would like immigration to be reduced. Most people are not aware that it already has." ✍️ @heather-rolfe.bsky.social looks at British attitudes to immigration 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/how-can-poli...

"This is also why falling net migration has not depoliticised immigration... Public concern is being driven less by the statistic than by a broader sense of disorder, asylum politics, visible demographic change and distrust of govt." ✍️ Jonathan Portes on UK migration 🔗 https://ow.ly/WhqK50Z62qV

In the UK a convicted fraudster is paid to write articles for a news magazine about the white genocide

Good Guardian is publicising this, but entirely unclear from story whether this is a bureaucratic error/HO incompetence, or the mindless/vindictive but technically correct (or at least dubious) application of a badly drafted rule. The difference matters.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Cuts in migration for work aren’t supported by the public and put Labour’s economic growth plans at risk My new blog for @ukandeu.bsky.social

A good piece by Simon French on the economics and political economy of Brexit panmureliberum.com/insights/the...

1/2 The Spectator has long given intellectual cover to the far right more or less subtly, but publishing this, with its explicit promotion of demographic replacement, white nationalist and remigration ideas, puts this once venerable magazine firmly in the extremist, fascistic camp.

Talking about “remigration” implies you are merely repeating or correcting a minor error which already happened. Resuming what was before. A simple policy change which a new PM could implement at the press of a button. But opponents need to be clear about what it actually means:

Pretending that substantially lower migration is cost-free is no more honest than pretending migration has no consequences, writes Jonathan Portes

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

We set immigration policy trying to reflect the views of people who understand the least about what's actually going on www.economist.com/britain/2026... It's the opposite of leadership! And not what representative democracy should be about

Immigration to the UK: escaping the doom loop. @lgilbert.co & I summarise the recent history of the economics and politics of immigration and try to set out a way forward. For the Progressive Economy Forum. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...

It's possible the much-traduced "Boriswave" ends up doing very well - by comparison to British-born workers and earlier waves of migration.

"Restricting Migration": Journal of Population Economics invites submissions with research evaluating these policies. link.springer.com/collections/...

Btw, I’ve found the Boris-wave: NHS nurses, porters, cleaners, helpers Where are you from? India, Nigeria, etc How long have you been here? 3/4/5 years Do you like it? *pause* I miss my family SERIOUSLY? Without immigration, THERE IS NO NHS Why can’t politicians say this? cc @jdportes.bsky.social

I’m very fortunate never to have had to go to hospital for anything substantive for 52 years. But two aged (one now very ill) parents, and now lying on an emergency trolley hooked up to drips, makes you think. And I HAVE VIEWS. (1/several)

Immigration to the UK: escaping the doom loop. @lgilbert.co & I summarise the recent history of the economics and politics of immigration and try to set out a way forward. For the Progressive Economy Forum. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...

Take a look at ours and @jdportes.bsky.social's updated analysis of migrant earnings. migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

Since 2024, the earnings of new non-EU employees (relative to the median) have fallen back significantly, despite the fact that restrictions introduced in 2024/2025 made the work visa system more selective. Why?

Excellent, thorough piece on the perverse impact of UK's restrictive attitude to migration. Government claims it wants to improve economic outcomes and encourage integration -and is achieving precisely the opposite. (draws on @migobs.bsky.social/my research) www.economist.com/britain/2026...

Ahead of tomorrow's @compassoffice.bsky.social @pef-online.bsky.social, the Progressive Economy Forum is publishing a series of policy papers. First up, @pholmes8.bsky.social and Sahana Suraj on re-opening the Brexit debate and resetting EU relations. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...

Next, @lgilbert.co and @jdportes.bsky.social on how to escape the UK's immigration doom loop. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...

Excellent, thorough piece on the perverse impact of UK's restrictive attitude to migration. Government claims it wants to improve economic outcomes and encourage integration -and is achieving precisely the opposite. (draws on @migobs.bsky.social/my research) www.economist.com/britain/2026...