Graph of average annual fees for BA/BSc or equivalent courses in the OECD showing England as the most expensive and Nordics the least
Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana.
(PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)
But Badenoch sees things in absolute terms and she has had enough of what she calls “separatism”. Her new Commission will tackle this perceived evil. It “will set out the culture that we want people to assimilate into. What we expect and what we will enforce”. While that last word might come as a shock to sensitive souls, the Conservative leader relished it. “Conference, we are bringing enforcement back to this country,” she trilled. “We tried to be nice to everybody, avoided tough decisions and it didn’t work. No more.”
Crikey (Source: reporting from the Tories' Spring Conference in Harrogate - www.thenewworld.co.uk/patience-whe...)
Exciting times for the far-right tax-dodgers who lament the death of free speech in the UK from the utopia of Dubai.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The protests worked. They won the right to rape.
A week is a long time in politics.
"They tell us it is to improve race relations and social cohesion, to placate implacable white “patriots” over and over, to create a happy, clappy, multiracial Britain. Say, do, fail, repeat." @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social
Is the point not that the cost of litigation plus risk of defeat is higher than the special payment? With Mandelson likely to push it due to his character.
They also reacted to winning (2010, and then 2015/6) by throwing an endless tantrum.
The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you
I almost missed that in a video where the former Chancellor of the Exchequer talks about "Institutional Credibility", the video misspells the word "credibility", which kind of sums this whole thing up
Turkey, I am in you.
(More commonly said on Christmas Day, I guess)
52/48! Of course!
(I may have discussed with my wife how she intended to vote in this referendum. But it didn’t count as family voting because we are both white.)
The problem for the govt is it is the govt. The truth will out: savings won’t arrive, costs will. And then the electorate will be angry at the betrayal, and rightly so. All of this is grimly predictable yet here we are with the most senior people in politics playing a dangerous game of make believe
Absolutely right
Again, as with Guardian article, Mahmood's reliance on false/deliberately misleading claims about her "earned settlement" proposals suggests that she knows she can't defend them on the merits, in principle or in practice.
While I've said it's a copy of 2022, the Labour 2026 reform is harder and more illiberal, and arguably less logical in its own terms. (2023 was more draconian + Labour are more pragmatic in actually processing claims as the only real world way out of the asylum ban creating the hotel chaos)
I’d probably not lecture people on political strategy if my strategy had led to the party polling circa 16-18%, regularly coming third or fourth and being at existential threat of losing its century-long role in British politics.
But that’s just me.
Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.
"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green (in Gorton and Denton) works" says Nigel Farage.
So not just smearing the winners of the by-election his party just lost, but all of their voters too.
He means Qatar not the US.
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.
Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
Leaving aside the possibility that she might be guided by morality, I don't understand how anyone can be so thick.
All you Chat GPT fans who can’t be arsed to write your own words or think it’s great fun to drain the planet so you can show what your cartoon work persona looks like, well this is what you’re funding. It’s basically Skynet.
Can’t blame this on Morgan McSweeney.
Obviously this is absurd, I also want to reiterate how US brained this is. One of these things is not like the others, sure older white working class voters don’t like the EU or asylum seekers and like cars but ideological attachment to Israel is a very very minority position in Britain
It's too left wing economically and *far* too right wing socially. It's not trying to aim for the centre of the country, it's trying to aim for what they call hero voters - who are not centrists.
The prime minister spent last summer in hiding when race riots were happening, and now we act surprised when we lose the vote of the people we abandoned because of our utter obsession with voters that did not vote for us in 2024 and will not vote for us in the future
If the Muslims were integrated, they would have…voted for a more socially conservative candidate? As ever “Want to get stupider? Try Racism (TM)” never fails.
I thought Starmer's statement this morning was a disaster. Pretending that the Greens are as bad as Reform, jUsT oN tHe LeFt, is an idiotic strategy for attracting back voters that clearly like what GPEW has to say.
Think this is right and it is a big part of the major dysfunctions of our politics the extent to which it attracts men who think shouting at things makes them heroic fixers and the job of women is to get out of the way.
Vox pops of people that are walking around, in the daytime, are willing to speak, and being honest.
It is useful as anecdotal, but it is anecdotal.
