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They are until the end of 2027 because @britishineurope.bsky.social campaigned for and got a grace period during the Brexit negotiations. We’ve asked for all UK citizens to be eligible for home fees but to no avail. Few other counties treat their young citizens abroad so contemptuously.

The UK has consistently refused to grant home fee status to UK kids growing up in the EU post-2027 so this looks like a non-starter for EU students. But if it’s not, let’s hope it could benefit UK kids in the EU as well.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...

(from my presentation at the IMF last week)

Anzeige einer elektronischen Abstimmung im Europäischen Parlament. Oben steht „report WARBORN A10-0197/2025“ und „Commission proposal“. Links sind Symbole mit Zahlen: ein gelbes Symbol neben „644“, ein grünes Plus neben „382“, ein rotes Minus neben „249“ und ein graues Kreis-Symbol neben „013“. Rechts ist eine halbrunde Sitzgrafik mit farbigen Punkten, die die Stimmen der Abgeordneten darstellen: viele grüne Punkte (Ja-Stimmen), zahlreiche rote Punkte (Nein-Stimmen) sowie einige weiße oder graue Punkte (Enthaltungen oder nicht abgegebene Stimmen). Im Hintergrund ist der Plenarsaal des Europäischen Parlaments zu sehen.

Dammbruch im EU-Parlament: Erstmals beschließt eine Mehrheit aus Konservativen und Rechtsextremen - also auch CDU, CSU und AfD eine Gesetzesposition. Damit werden u.a. Kinderarbeit und Menschenrechtsverletzungen in Lieferketten gefördert. Vollkommen verheerend. Schämt euch, CDU und CSU.

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.

A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.

And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.

Another excellent thread from Tanja on Labour’s asylum proposals. There is still so much complacency about what is happening in the UK despite everything that has happened since 2016 that it is hard to know what it’s going to take for citizens to take real, effective action to stop the trajectory.

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world"

That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

Labour no longer has any values, or certainly not progressive ones. These proposals are abhorrent and you and like-minded colleagues must vote against them. The majority of voters don’t support them but even if they did, as a human being you would still have a duty to vote against such evil policies

The image captures a wintery forest scene, with trees covered in frost or snow. The foreground shows a steep slope with exposed roots and fallen debris, while the background reveals denser woods with varying degrees of snow cover. The lighting is that of a sunny but cold day, enhancing the contrast between the white-covered trees and the darker foreground.

The Witcher - Netflix, 2019
#alphabetchallenge #WeekTforTv

#Stunday
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Great memories of an excellent hike in Luxembourg, speaking a lot of politics with @fionainlu.bsky.social when I was convinced that Russia would not invade Ukraine..

Any politician who is taking seriously that the next election might be lost to a far-right populist party, should be doing all they can to strengthen protections for vulnerable people. If this is lost, it will go down in history as a moment where everything collapsed.

Home secretary to tackle UK's 'excessive generosity' with sweeping immigration reforms In a statement to MPs on Monday, Shabana Mahmood is expected to tighten up the rules to allow for more deportations, and reduce the "pull factors" that attract migrants to the UK.

Another day another migration story. Terrifying in here tho is the reform of the ECHR she will attempt. This will be Labour's biggest and most dangerous mistake, I GUARANTEE. It will set up the infrastructure for a Reform govt. to dismantle all our protections. news.sky.com/story/home-s...

People are not deterred by perilous journeys lasting months or years, crossing the Sahara, making dangerous sea crossings in rickety boats, all the time risking imprisonment, enslavement, torture and rape.
They will not be deterred by this.

Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery drivers

Fernando (33), who was 12 when he came to the UK, was detained by the Home Office as part of their upgraded immigration raids. Held for 29 days. We are supporting him with an application for settled status. No way to know, but this is unlikely to be isolated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Very proud to have been coordinator and a work package leader on this project, we have achieved a lot.

Picture shows a group of volunteers at a training event on the EU Charter and WA in Berlin, October 2024

What has it been like to participate in the EU-funded Inform, Connect, Empower project as a volunteer advocate?
We asked our VAs to tell us how it helped them deepen their expert knowledge of the WA and EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Watch the video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jihh...

As part of our toolbox for rights we asked our volunteer advocates to discuss the types of cases and issues that arose, the WA and Charter articles that were most relevant in their work, and outcomes. See what they had to say in the video here www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZBp...

During the ICE (Inform, Connect, Empower) project volunteer advocates from 11 EU states (AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, EL, ES, LU, HU, MT, SE) supported hundreds of UK citizens living in the EU to access & defend their rights under the Withdrawal Agreement & the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Backed up by our practical experience in the WA negotiations and cases we have dealt with across the 11 country groups involved in the project, it is the first legal report of its kind focusing on WA implementation for the 1.2 million UK WA beneficiaries in the EU and issues that have arisen.

@lukepiper.bsky.social @the3million.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social

Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

3. While big oil, big tobacco, etc. serve as well-known cautionary tales, social media research poses novel challenges for independent researchers—perhaps most notably, access to the study system itself.

It's like trying to study climate change if Exxon-Mobile owned all the world's thermometers.

British in Europe opposes immigration bill put forward by Conservatives | British in Europe British in Europe is alarmed by the comments made by Katie Lam MP in an interview with the Sunday Times published on 19 October 2025 and a bill drafted by...

Once again we find ourselves responding to attacks on fundamental rights and basic decency from UK political parties. Once again we are stunned at how far-right racist policies and arguments are now being mainstreamed in the UK.

Read our statement bit.ly/48K3TmK

People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased.

Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.

All of which is to say, this has costs, for us in HE sure, but also for business, medicine, finance, tech, arts and entertainment, pharmaceuticals. The industries that this country is a world leader in. And if you cannot fathom why this uncertainty is a problem then you are not fit to govern.

If any Labour MPs are reading (go on, you know you want to), as someone trying to hire six new Oxford professors in AI / experiments / big data / all the stuff you say you want, I would really appreciate knowing if new hires can, you know, stay in the country they move to... current policy is chaos

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

Our EU-funded ICE (Inform, Connect, Empower) project is ending. We’d like to hear from the UK Withdrawal Agreement beneficiary community living in the EU about your thoughts on the project so please grab a cuppa and take five minutes to complete it bit.ly/49bF6Ik Deadline midnight CET on 24.10.2025