An utterly bizarre claim from anyone, but coming from a columnist for the Daily Telegraph this approaches performance art..

The National Trust is not for sale to anyone - offshore or on. If you’re a member please vote in this year’s AGM nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/ann…

Let’s be clear, there is no plan of the German Government to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. The discussion is about processing asylum applications in third countries under international humanitarian law and with support of the United Nations.

Superb article. The framing of inward migration is generally hostile, paranoiac, ancillary to a narrative of extreme hate, instead of looking at the positives and upsides. Well done on writing that article. I happen to have the 3 books referenced. Too many myths!

"That is the way that an asylum system works". Good to hear Angela Eagle DBE set out this out clearly and factually.

📉 "Brexit may...have contributed to the levelling up of the UK by levelling down more relatively economically prosperous regions" 🚨 NEW: Eleonora Alabrese, Jacob Edenhofer 🇺🇦, Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere, & Shizhuo Wang outline their research on the local economic impacts of Brexit. ukandeu.ac.uk/levelling-up-b…

The blog summarises their recent paper ‘Levelling up by Levelling Down: The Economic and Political Costs of Brexit’ Read in full via the link below 🧐👇 🔗 brexitcost.org/brexitcost.pdf

"Levelling up by levelling down": the regional economic impacts of Brexit New research from Eleonora Alabrese, Jacob Edenhofer 🇺🇦, Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere, & Shizhuo Wang ukandeu.ac.uk/levelling-up-b…

TW has no external shareholders. Its ultimate parent, Kemble, has paid no dividends to external shareholders since 2017. Until March this year, TW paid a dividend to Kemble to enable it to service its debts. But those payments have now stopped and Kemble is in default. 1/

Great piece.

The Coram Group of children’s charities has been accepted as a Core Participant of the Covid-19 Inquiry examining the impact of the pandemic on children and young people across the UK. coram.org.uk/news/coram-acc…

We're delighted that the UK's independent news regulator IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) has upheld a complaint we made over a misleading claim about migration data in a 2023 Daily Express comment article written by then-Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden MP. buff.ly/4ecFmGn

Video reconstruction of how Israeli troops killed a young Palestinian boy in Gaza for no reason, then killed six of his family members as they returned from a cemetery to bury him, holding a white flag. Their remains were bulldozed into a pile of garbage. trib.al/9wf8crj

Want to know more about the big policy challenges coming down the track? 👀 Look no further. Jonathan Portes, Jill Rutter, Sarah Hall, Anand Menon and Ben Zaranko discuss everything you need to know. Watch back now 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Y_0Y4B…

What does an "honest debate" about immigration look like? "We could start by recognising that our attractiveness to migrants, especially to those who want to come here to work and study, is a huge comparative advantage, not a problem." ⁦Jonathan Portes⁩ theguardian.com/books/article/…

Meanwhile, the atrocity denialists in UK politics and press (and, shamefully, the Chief Rabbi) want the UK to remain a willing and active accomplice to these systematic and deliberate war crimes.

More nonsense from the once-serious Adam Smith Institute. The claim that UK GDP per capita has fallen since 2008 is simply untrue (as you can see from the chart - or the ONS source data here) ons.gov.uk/economy/grossd…

I've seen respectable people interacting with this Cremieux account. So let's be clear: this person is a dyed-in-the-wool racist, using charts and graphs to produce a patina of credibility around Nazi-style race science. Here he's defending Richard Lynn. Some quotes from Lynn: