What does an abusive chef of the world’s top-rated restaurant have to do with immigration? He was accused not only of punching employees, but threatening to get their families deported of they didn’t do what he said. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...
I didn’t realise there were two DWs. Yes, I meant the DW which is (now I realise) funded by the German state, and not the other DW. I guess I should delete my post. That’s a shame. It’s almost like private capital can’t be the primary solution for misinformation and manipulation.
In case you missed it, @alanmanning4.bsky.social in his new book also thinks claiming an economy “needs immigration” is unhelpful.
I vaguely recall Boris Johnson as mayor being pretty pro-pedestrianisation because he liked to ride his bike around? And then when PM supporting councils supporting pedestrianisation? Which were mostly Labour run? The politics around this topic is weird.
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Ah ok - but not broken down by nationality?
Yes, so presumably this stat doesn’t include those types of coerced returns?
This from @colinyeo.bsky.social is useful, but I’m not sure this includes migrants who are threatened with deportation if they remain, who then return via the voluntary returns service. www.gov.uk/return-home-...
People who judge the quality of AI based on how much it can write should read this:
Even if this isn’t a huge problem in terms of scale, it would be easy for the government to just implement a transition period. If the government stated that the new policy would come into force a year from now, that could get rid of the backlash from both the right and the left.
Important analysis by @robfordmancs.bsky.social and others. One thing noted is that “The Brexit referendum appeared to defuse the immigration debate” - a point excellently demonstrated in work by @mirandasimon.bsky.social in this article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Yes that distinction makes sense. But don’t people who claim a country needs immigrants mean that the citizens and companies of the country need immigrants?
You note that Japan needs immigrants for healthcare. That sounds like needing to me! Agree with the gist of what you write, though.
“If the policy you are proposing would not have let the president bring his own wife to the country, maybe it is time to revisit the policy.”
Excellent point by @negsaunders.bsky.social: if you want to decrease the number of immigrants without legal status you shouldn’t increase the number of immigrants without legal status. That’s what Reform would
do by arbitrarily cancelling ILR.
NEW: JD Vance flew to Rome to formally invite Pope Leo XIV to join America’s 250th anniversary celebration.
The first American pope has declined — days after rejecting President Trump’s “Board of Peace” invitation.
On July 4, he’ll be in Lampedusa, standing with migrants.
News agencies often only cite Gaza’s health ministry when stating the number of deaths, and these numbers are then refuted by those who don’t trust the ministry because it’s run by Hamas. Now news agencies can cite the Lancet - I hope they do. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is excellent. I was also thinking that the arrest might strengthen the monarchy by making it seem like the bad royals will be punished, and so all is fine.
I’m glad this is written, but we need to also address ethics and morality: a lot of Americans support ending birthright citizenship by ignoring or changing the law, or they don’t care either way. To persuade them, it’s not enough to say what the law says; we need to address what the law should say.
This will create stress, limbo, and impossibly burdensome stacks of paperwork to obtain settlement - without it being clear who does and does not have a right to settlement. This not only hurts refugees, it dissuades people from coming to the UK to fill shortage occupations. 3/3
For example: refugees need to wait 20 years to obtain settlement unless they obtain a still never-clarified special work or study visa. What is this visa? How is it obtained? We don’t know! 2/3
One aspect that hasn’t been addressed regarding the new settlement plans: it’s genuinely not clear if anyone will actually be effected *if* they jump through horrendous bureaucratic hoops 1/3
Yes - very sorry for that error.
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I have mixed thoughts. On the one hand, I can’t stand STP, so making it less like STP - adding pecans, overly burnt, less sauce - is better in my book, not worse. On the other hand, if you’re going to make STP, maybe make it as intended, and get penalised for pecans, burning, and skimping on sauce.
I’ve never understood, but would want to find out, why in some countries and times the media focuses on the cost of immigration control - as when in the UK the media emphasised the high cost of the Rwandan plan - while other times costs are never mentioned at all (as now in the US).
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
There’s something offensive about apologising for offending, rather than apologising for the thing said. If Ratcliffe calls migrants “colonisers” he should absolutely not be sorry about how people reacted - about the offence they took - but for what he said to cause such offence.
This only takes ten minutes to fill out if you don’t answer the open questions. So if you have a moment, you can have your say on whether, for example, refugees and victims of domestic violence should need to wait longer before obtaining settlement.
