2026 crossings - down 35% year on year - currently lowest for 5 years. The peak was August/Sept 2025 [if seasonally adjust, and compare like-for-like] as part of a Europe-wide fall, which began earlier.
BBC news reporting omits this. But you can get it if you "tap the questions" below the report
Looking forward to read it! Looks like the book of/for the year!
Seriously shocking that a Labour Home Secretary thinks it’s ok to make jokes about tasering or deporting people. Not even the far-right parties that aspire to govern would make such jokes in public.
NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work
Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social
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The typical narrative in the Anglo-Saxon media is that Pedro Sánchez is more popular abroad than at home. It turns out that he is in fact quite popular in Spain. PSOE is well ahead in the polls at 36.4% of voting intentions. Quite a feat for a party in power since 2018. elpais.com/espana/2026-...
The value bet here is Ed Miliband.
A competent minister, has an agenda, possesses politics.
Who might succeed Sir Keir Starmer as Britain’s prime minister?
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from The Economist
Not only that. Magnette sat with the Canadians and negotiated the whole new trade deal.
Another leader who was interesting to hear was the leader of the Belgian socialists Paul Magnette. He’s not just someone with good ideas; he was leader of Wallonia who forced the EU to negotiate the free trade agreement with Canada so that it had clauses that protected workers and the environment.
The Global Progressive Mobilisation in Barcelona was not just a vibrant and exciting get together of progressives. Sánchez, Lula, Sheinbaum are doing the hard stuff of challenging established power and transforming their countries.
Because things were already not bad enough for Labour, this little but bombastic piece of news means that EU citizens who can vote at local elections may not vote Labour. I will certainly not. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mark Rutte shows us every single day that mediocrity, ass-licking powerful people and looking plausible is what really matters in this world
I hope the European Union - @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, @antoniolscosta.bsky.social, sfn
@kajakallas.bsky.social - are paying attention. The rewriting of settlement rules for EU citizens in the UK need to be discussed in the forthcoming EU-UK new agreement.
@gwr.com doing their usual greedy stuff of selling far too many tickets for really short trains and forcing passabgers to either travel in terrible conditions or being unable to board the train for which they paid serious money.
Exactly. I’ve never used and refuse to use AI in any aspect of my work or life. I actually enjoy thinking, reading and suffering through the writing process.
You will know when Labour really wants a deeper relationship with the EU as it will involve the words "examining red lines" or some such. Until that happens, there is less of a pivot and more of a continued wish list.
Labour’s immigration policy is unraveling as we speak. First the promise to dilute of the immigration and asylum bill and now the deal with France is on the verge of collapse. What next?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Really enjoyed the last two episodes but I’m very much looking forward to the next one!
So much media interest (verging on obsession) on Ed Miliband these days. As @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social argued this weekend Miliband is Labour’s ideas machine. If you want to understand his agenda I gently nudge you to check this book I published with @manchesterup.bsky.social.
In 1975, Swedish socialists and unions devised a program to democratically seize the means of production, but terrified elites dismantled it.
50 years on, the Meidner Plan still offers a blueprint for a socialist transition today.
159/ "U.S.-Israel are carpet bombing Iran and killing civilians. 92,000 civilian units damaged, universities, schools, hospitals, oil and gas fields, desalination plants, nuclear facilities, steel factories…all in an illegal war"
Why do we only hear of gas prices & market and not this DESTRUCTION.
Orbán uses the EU’s own tools, funds, vetoes, market access, to dismantle what the EU stands for.
A new @FEPS study maps how: Hungarian public money flowing into foundations, fellowships, media, lobbying that embed illiberalism deep inside American conservatism.
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Thank you!
Great vibes at the @togetheralliance.bsky.social march against the far-right
The Atlantic Subscribe IDEAS Where Are All the Campus Protests? Two years ago, students occupied buildings and colonized the quad. Now the same places are strangely silent.
Honestly, fuck off.
Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.
🇩🇰Election results: The parties in Mette Frederiksen’s centrist coalition government lost seats in the Danish elections - yet, Denmark could still end up with a centrist coalition as no clear governing coalition emerges on the left or the right
Coalition talks will now commence
