There is a great retrospective in the WSJ today on how the UK's post-Brexit experiment with big increases in legal immigration went wrong. Their mistakes yield some important policy lessons for supporters *and* critics of skilled immigration. Let's dive in: (tl;dr: What was

I can’t believe Yvette Cooper is going to take us back to the 1930s.

"We have a clear road map" This is one of the special phrases Eurocrats like VDL specialise in. It means, "we have no plan, and couldn't execute it even if we did."

This story is appalling, but apparently it is the tip of the iceberg. A quick search reveals that lots of Ukrainian refugees have, especially in Germany, been victims of awful crimes committed by non-European migrants.

"Our soft power is not naïve—it is necessary. In a fragmented world, our contribution is needed more than ever." They all sound the same. I wonder which GPT prompt the EU speechwriters all use to deliver this level of bland conformity.

In the run up to local elections, 6 AfD politicians have died. Given the entire German state apparatus and all the main political parties consider the AfD an existential threat to German democracy, you can understand why people are drawn to a conspiratorial explanation.

Yields climbing, riot police arresting comedy writers at the airport, doors open to Palestinians ... Yookay in full swing.

Europe spends the most on mental health, but the problem only seems to get worse. Perhaps there is a lesson there.

Guy who regularly runs cover for Russian barbarity accusing the US of “moral collapse” for targeting one of the world’s most insanely violent narco-terror organisations.

So Zach Polanski thinks you should be locked up for tweeting jokes but you shouldn’t for attacking military bases. Have I got that right?.

Eurobarometer manufacturing consent once again What a surprise! The EU’s pet polling agency finds people want new “EU revenue sources”. The insanely biased - in fact sociologically fraudulent- survey didn’t ask the obvious: would you pay more tax?

I don't have a settled view on surrogacy but I defy anyone to look into the face of this guy and not feel a profound and instinctive sense of disgust.

Can't believe the Green Party actually did the Michel Houellebecq Submission meme

Don't buy this, even if it's welcome that the Met now disavowing their own speech policing. The police let loads of things slide because they say they lack resources. They could easily have done so here. Instead they did the opposite.

✅Free speech issue: being arrested for things you say on the internet ❌Not a free speech issue: not being invited to a conference Hope this helps.

📵Thou Shall Not Tweet Read what Claire Fox & Mo Lovatt have to say on THAT Heathrow arrest & what's happening at this year's premier free speech festival #BattleFest ❓Incitement law: a tool of censorship ❓Policing & two-tier justice ❓Europe's Free Speech Crisis link ⤵️

It’s like Friedrich Merz hardly exists. His own cabinet ministers show up on television and characterise his statements as “bullshit.” Today even that last bastion of CDU boosterism, the Frankfurter Allgemeine, turned on him. Every day he’s in another country, so I guess our

I'm sorry, but that Report is objectively meh Does the ECHR constrain UK immigration policy? The Report says it doesn't because (1) ECHR recognises the right of countries to control their borders and (2) it only ruled against the UK three times Both of those are non seq

Von der Leyen was never the world’s most inspiring politician but here she just looks broken.

Incredible the number of "highly informed" critics of Israel that have no idea that Israel has both a President and a Prime Minister, and that they are different people.