Are the English really that shortsighted? I hope not.
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Three: Don't you think the UK will benefit more of this anyway - even if it will cost them £140million a year - because of the soft power educating foreigners in your country brings, and the positive impact that will have re their views of and future relation with the UK?
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Two: Do you think Brits will mind it will cost the UK £140 million a year if in return the Brexit reset and EU gives will benefit the UK economy many times that amount?
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soft power allowing EU citz 2 study in UK will have (+) long term effects which are probably hard 2 measure but certainly helped UK even now still as despite being a f*cking nightmare since Brexit still has good will on continent precsiely coz so many EU citz have lived in UK, 140m will pay itself
yes remember reading that article in 16'. nothing has changed
This essay by Charles Grant is even more relevant today, tragically bsky.app/profile/robw...
The UK press is so myopic.
They know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.
£140m is a very minor adjustment in government funding for a hugely powerful and lucrative sector such as universities.
Get on with it UK. Get on with it.
When the UK was an EU member UK students could attend some EU unis which were either free or charged very low fees for a whole degree course. This was independent of Erasmus.
I think the UK should be willing to subsidise EU students to the the tune of £140 mill. It's not a lot.
Or rejoin the EU 😆
Once again the British negotiating team shows little understanding of how its position need evolve over the negotiations. What we also see is that it will take longer than the duration of this parliament's life for something serious to happen. British governing class is not ready yet needs more time
soft power allowing smart EU ppl 2 study in UK will have (+) long term effects which are probably hard 2 measure but certainly helped UK even now still as despite being a f*cking nightmare since Brexit still has good will on continent precsiely coz so many EU citz have lived in UK, 140m pays itself
"Oh FGS Alex of course they won't..."
Well here we are
Being alumni from UK universities and wanting their kids and kids from their wider milieu to be able to study in the UK is the one area where quite a few EU policymakers have a truly personal stake in post-Brexit arrangements.
That Whitehall and Universities UK were blind to this is telling.
Anyone surprised by this has no detailed understanding of the intellectual outlook and personal biographies of a large swathe of EU policymakers.
What you get from lack of curiosity in Whitehall about who their counterparts are in Brussels.
@jwsidders.bsky.social @almagroschool.bsky.social Sanchez on rest of politics today (leading) should be interesting. seems like Pedro finally getting the international/anglo (+) acclaim he deserves
archive.ph/qBhSe
Campbell on Clegg's wife "She is still my favourite Spaniard, and I don’t ever want to cross her." but basically deep down he must know she's talking crap re Sanchez
err he is a winner, he's been in power since 2018 & will probably win again.
Well, a pretty big turnaround in Castilla y León - PSOE ends up gaining seats, as does PP, with the overtly pro-MAGA Vox seeing a much lower swing in its favour than in other recent regional elections in Spain. The Trump effect? In a solidly right wing region, Sánchez will see this as vindication.
Groundhog day
Groundhog day
It would be darkly comedic if it wasn’t my country going round and round in circles on the road to nowhere
FFS, just maddening
Nothing new, the same old shit again and again
Europe hates Trump. But as things stand, by 2030 there will be MAGA-adjacent governments in France, Italy, Spain and the UK, while they can't be ruled out in Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands and any number of smaller central and Eastern European states. Maybe Europe doesn't hate Trump *that* much.
It's maddening
Ideologues? Hard Brexiters, including this Labour Government, can speak for themselves but the aspiration to join the single market, a customs union and ultimately the EU has a solid pragmatic basis. We’re not the ones wedded to the fantasies of Brexit. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Tbc, the ultra-wealthy now supposedly fleeing Dubai are a relatively small part of the UAE's economic relevance
The mostly South Asian middle class 20-30 times their size and the presence of literally over a trillion dollars in sovereign wealth will likely keep it a regional pole of accumulation
Also what is misogyny exactly? How does one define this precisely?
A v good thread on the manosphere and crisis of misogyny among young men. Is it worse than ever, or is it just the latest manifestation of a long-running issue?
I enjoyed Louis Theroux's delve into the Manosphere, but I have the niggling sense that the whole panic around it is a bit of a fantasma.
The prevalence of misogyny among young men is no higher now than in 2015. The worst you can say is it's stopped shrinking.
What am I missing here?
Menon has always been against FoM. 58mins 30 seconds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g75O...
Where Anand says "FoM is weird"
