This Thursday, join Onward, Gates Foundation and Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP to debate how R&D investment can support the most vulnerable at home and abroad.

⏰16.00-20.00
📅Thursday 11th April
📍 Science and Industry Museum, Manchester
🎟️Register: ukonward.com/events/rd-for-…

🍰This week on the Onward cake trolley: vegan(!) brownies from Cake or Death.

Despite some initial suspicion, these dairy-free treats won over naysayers.

Team Onward rating: 8.67

Eid Mubarak, from my family to yours - Sretan Bajram! 🇧🇦💫

Now I need to find time to make baklava... #EidAlFitr

Reached the glorious phase of my twenties in which getting a toaster is the best gift I can imagine. 🍞

Best start to the day yesterday, acting as witness at my brother’s wedding to his wonderful wife. 💫

Especially joyous on the eve of Eid! 🎉

Agree with much of this. The inverse is true too: people will be much more relaxed about liberal immigration policies if birth rates in their own country are above replacement rate.

Fortunately immigration can help with that, by lowering childcare costs: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Immigration is useful to help with the challenges of an ageing society. But some argue that we can forget about having any children at all – it doesn't matter because we can just replace the lost children with working-age foreigners. This thread explains why that won't work.

Feeling patriotic after enjoying Stella Tsantekidou’s new article this morning.

Feels like I've failed the idea particularly badly whenever I try to see a GP

Great from Phoebe Arslanagić-Little 👇

The sugar rush of immigration can’t be the only remedy for an ageing population.

Family friendly policy is worth the investment.

We have plenty of water for all the new homes we could possibly want, even in the supposedly dry east. It just needs us to build a CRUMB of infrastructure.

Yes to this. I think therapy is an excellent and valuable thing. I also think should also serve as an antidote to solipsism and self-entitlement, and if it doesn't, you're doing it wrong.

A little note on the scary new Scottish Hate Crime Act.

I see quite a lot of people criticising the Act for not including sex as a protected characteristic. I totally get why they'd say this, and it's bizarre that sex is not on the list.

BUT... even getting into that…