Also if you see they’ve been hanging around for a long time doesn’t that mean *you’ve* been hanging around for a long time?

Having a cap per university also helps out universities outside major cities - when the government got rid of the cap, it really hurt a lot of extremely good but less-known universities and departments.

Worth noting that this correct view might be motivated by his antisemitism. Jones thinks “The Jewish mafia…run Uber,…health care, they’re going to scam you, they’re going to hurt you” and that there’s literally a global Jewish cabal. He’s not necessarily speaking from reason, even if he’s right.

You can think that capital accumulation by the 0.1% is a destructive phenomenon that must be curtailed, and also think that not *everyone* else is getting poorer. Plenty of non-billionaire wealthy homeowners exist who - due to pure luck - have been getting wealthier over the last four decades.

Photo of the opening paragraph of a book review: White trash Suicide of a nation Matt Goodwin (Northstar, £12.99) Matt Goodwin bills Suicide of a Nation as “the book they don't want you to read". Well, it's certainly a book I didn't want me to read. Goodwin, a former centrist academic turned Reform's in-house intellectual (who recently lost the Gordon and Denton by-election), has cultivated a social media presence somewhere between Kevin the Teenager and Roderick Spode. It felt unlikely he'd be more bearable at greater length.

Unimprovable opening to Private Eye’s review of Matt Goodwin’s ‘book’

At least today you don’t need a full head of hair.

Last week, in a post viewed over 250k times, Professor Orin Kerr wrote about a "mostly Al-written law review article" an anonymous lawyer is publishing with a Top 50 law school. Law professors were not happy. I'm the lawyer. I graduated from Yale Law in 2016 and founded Showalter PLLC this month in an effort to replicate my productivity gains for client work. The article is "Mere Machines": Why Originalism Requires Robotic Judging, forthcoming in the SMU Law Review Forum. It took me around 15 hours. SMU Law Review Forum previously published a shorter article I wrote in 2022; that one took me something like 150 hours. (Perhaps overkill but I tend toward perfectionism.)

Especially intrigued to hear that spending more than 3 weeks on something counts as perfectionism

If Books Could Kill is fun.

That’s only if you’re born a US citizen. If you have a right to obtain it via an application, you don’t need to obtain it. That’s the case for those who have a right to US citizenship via their grandparents. At least that’s what I thought?

I wonder how widespread this is? I’m a US citizen and applied for US citizenship for my daughter four years ago, which she has a right to obtain via my parents. I paid over $1,000, got a letter confirming receipt shortly after, and then nothing. I just assumed this is super widespread.

In a previous UK policy, where repatriation with payments was outsourced to IOM, and then Refugee Action, I know at least some asylum seekers returned to Afghanistan, but I’ve never checked the numbers (and couldn’t easily find them when researching).

This same policy was suggested in 2010 by the openly racist BNP, though they offered the equivalent of £78,000. Globally, money can encourage return, but usually for those facing inhumane conditions, or safe conditions at home. I’ve written about this here: repository.essex.ac.uk/23016/

Emigration as a Growth Strategy The model of manufacturing export-led growth followed by a number of countries in East Asia and beyond is becoming ever more complex to emulate. But new pathways to rapid growth for developing countri...

Many countries of origin have shifted from concerns about "brain drain" to actively promoting emigration. New @cgdev.org paper by @charlesjkenny.bsky.social outlines how emigration *can* contribute to growth, but only if the right policies are in place.

www.cgdev.org/publication/...

Maybe more accurate to write “no more than two of the three.”

Which would be unfair to both those forced to claim asylum, and voters who will have less accurate information on who is benefiting scientific innovation, given that even scientists might be forced into a different route.

There is extensive evidence that nationalists who don’t like migration in general like migrants who will contribute to improving health outcomes. Labour needs to start reading far more peer-reviewed studies on attitudes towards immigration, and not rely so heavily on its own polling.

Punching, Slamming, Screaming: A Chef’s Past Abuse Haunts Noma, the World’s Top-Rated Restaurant

What does an abusive chef of the world’s top-rated restaurant have to do with immigration? He was accused not only of punching employees, but threatening to get their families deported of they didn’t do what he said. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...

I didn’t realise there were two DWs. Yes, I meant the DW which is (now I realise) funded by the German state, and not the other DW. I guess I should delete my post. That’s a shame. It’s almost like private capital can’t be the primary solution for misinformation and manipulation.

In case you missed it, @alanmanning4.bsky.social in his new book also thinks claiming an economy “needs immigration” is unhelpful.

I vaguely recall Boris Johnson as mayor being pretty pro-pedestrianisation because he liked to ride his bike around? And then when PM supporting councils supporting pedestrianisation? Which were mostly Labour run? The politics around this topic is weird.

YAAAAY

Ah ok - but not broken down by nationality?

Yes, so presumably this stat doesn’t include those types of coerced returns?

This from @colinyeo.bsky.social is useful, but I’m not sure this includes migrants who are threatened with deportation if they remain, who then return via the voluntary returns service. www.gov.uk/return-home-...

People who judge the quality of AI based on how much it can write should read this:

Even if this isn’t a huge problem in terms of scale, it would be easy for the government to just implement a transition period. If the government stated that the new policy would come into force a year from now, that could get rid of the backlash from both the right and the left.

Important analysis by @robfordmancs.bsky.social and others. One thing noted is that “The Brexit referendum appeared to defuse the immigration debate” - a point excellently demonstrated in work by @mirandasimon.bsky.social in this article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Yes that distinction makes sense. But don’t people who claim a country needs immigrants mean that the citizens and companies of the country need immigrants?