EXC: Universities in England face risk of 'closure' as student numbers fall, the Office for Students will warn tomorrow -- have advance extracts of annual report.
Finds 40pc unis in defict; applications falling when unis were betting on 25-35% growth😬

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Why has the BBC's #Newsnight invited someone from the American Enterprise Institute to talk about the assassination attempt on the Slovakian PM?

AEI is a free-market neocon lobby group which opposes the prevailing scientific opinion on climate change.

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Bless him. He believed them.

Israel's U.N. ambassador has lost it. He calls the U.N. a 'terror organization unto itself,' in part because it criticizes Israeli war crimes in Gaza, claiming that's collaboration with Hamas. (Never mind that Netanyahu approved funding Hamas until Oct 7). ft.com/content/f0945f…

'Brexit was a huge bet against the idea that geography mattered to economic and security policy in the 21st century. Geography won.' Another🎯from Rafael Behr

Sunak's Britain, 2024:

Devon residents told to boil water after test found traces of parasite.

Dozens of people have reportedly fallen ill in the areas of Alston and Hillhead after drinking the contaminated water.

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🚨🚨 'In today's it's only going to get worse', Jack Simpson 💚 reports on Brexit border IT outages which delay import of perishable foods and plants to UK by up to 20 hours with retailers rejecting orders. #brexitshambles 🧵 theguardian.com/business/artic…

Wanton damage to one of the UK's most successful sectors.
Is there anything the Tories won't destroy?
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Another shocking story. A huge stress to him & his family.

Wirral ‘local legend’ refused indefinite leave to remain by Home Office

Nelson Shardey, 74, has lived in the UK since 1977 and ran a Merseyside newsagent for 31 years theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

A second major expansion of the Rwanda scheme has been dropped by the government without parliamentary debate or legislation

A new deal with Paul Kagame's government allows asylum seekers with claims 'refused, withdrawn or treated as withdrawn' to be forcibly sent to Kigali

Since privatisation in 1989, water companies in England have incurred debts of more than £64bn and paid out £78bn in dividends.

Privatised, for-profit water isn’t working for people or planet.

Tell the Government: bring water into public ownership, now.

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Sunak's Britain, 2024:

Devon residents told to boil water after test found traces of parasite.

Dozens of people have reportedly fallen ill in the areas of Alston and Hillhead after drinking the contaminated water.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/1…

#Brexit promised cheaper food but ensured Britain faces a serious food crisis as all the worst thing (we warned about) happened since we left the EU.

Govt incentivised environment over food production, whilst also tearing up our trading arrangements.

Hard to recall any govt

Slovak PM Has Been Shot, Say Local Media.

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Keir Starmer, 'Perhaps the most ludicrous part of the Prime Ministers speech on Monday is that he would not accept that any of the problems that people are facing are caused by the 14 years of Conservative government' #PMQs

'Doesn't he think that rather than confiscating

'Are any of the prisoners he is currently letting out early considered to be high risk?'

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenges Rishi Sunak on the government's early release prison scheme, hoping to free up space in jails

#PMQs trib.al/dwvcRFT

📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer accuses Rishi Sunak of trying to snatch civil servants' lanyards 'like some jumped up milk monitor'

“Rather... he should stop issuing ‘get out of jail free’ cards to prisoners considered a risk to children' #PMQs

The Chief Inspector of Prisons this week warned that a stalker at risk to kids was among those to be released early from jail mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

#pmqs has just become a Conservative Party broadcast. Sunak doesn’t address the questions, is just determined to read out his prepared statement & seems to think it’s Starmer’s job to provide answers instead of him.

Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP . Both PMQs and you are not fit for purpose.

Sit down Sunak. All of Keir Starmer’s questions were about the state of the prison service, and you didn’t answer any of them. We don’t need to hear BS on the economy.

#politicslive #pmqs #PintSizedLoser