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How did we end up with such a stupid anti-international student policy in the first place?

Cost of cleaning dominates the design concerns

I only have in depth sight of the NHS but the average commentator has no clue about how tough things were post pandemic, how things eased off a bit but then the tail end of the last govt and the start of this one have hammered people again.

I have been losing my optimism because it seems every week our elites plumb new lows of spinelessness.

It’s tricky, you don’t want to give this stuff too much oxygen, but if it isn’t confronted it can grow in the background.

Awful in so many ways, but particularly in not adjusting to how the ref was treating the breakdown.

My theory is that Sam Altman hates gamers, hence he will do anything to prevent RAM prices going back down.

They believe the media will insulate them from any consequences if the gamble doesn’t work out. Unfortunately, everything we have seen so far suggests they are probably right.

I think you have to try being honest. But it’s probably too late for this government. Too much pretending already done.

Those interstitial ads are absolutely rage inducing.

Yes, that looks like the least damaging way out of this at the moment.

Glasman showing what a joke he in fact is, but the media will keep coming back to him because “authenticity” apparently.

Critical support to gmail spam filter in identifying organisations you should not trust.

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The dark side of sea shanties for @alixmortimer.bsky.social

New James Bond villain just dropped.

The details sound a lot like an LLM written piece, too.

Reform as Refried Tories

Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”

Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

The Petulant Right seems like a useful category these days

Given it was Groupthink that got UK into Iraq, I’d be happy to discover there was division.

Lack of diversity was what Chilcot Report noted as a strategic problem

This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".

Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

Interesting numbers here @sonofsuntzu.bsky.social - esp. when people talk about regression

*looks at the scorecard*

ah

Matt Goodwhine (h/t Private Eye)

You'll be receiving a bill for mind-bleach from my representatives shortly.

Area Rifkind has not actually looked at the polling of the UK electorate.

Also, now I think about it, I have questions? What does this game involve? Riding around, searching drawers for parts to fix wind turbines with? Being chased by a posse from The Telegraph?

You could have least chosen a picture with a slightly less zombie - rictus grin.

I spent three days at a refugee camp. Here's what I learned Shabana Mahmood, Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood, reflects on her recent visit to refugee camps in Greece.

There's an interesting story to be written about how we get from the MP who wrote this in 2015 to the Home Secretary of today.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/201...