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Home Office Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan Pippa Crerar Political editor Tue 10 Mar 2026 The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world's most dangerous countries from changes to the UK's immigration system, the Guardian understands.

That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it.
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Not really breaking any news here.

two and a half years after last general election this moron still insists he won it. It's quite pathetic

Rules out an election this year, not least bc the last dose of the EU recovery fund comes in December and why risk leting those c**** spend it. Well, that's what he thought, not what he said

It's not a bad strategy if you want to be a 50 seat party but not going to turn you into a 200 seat party

you know how right wing u are when your proposals are even more right wing than Yvette Cooper's

Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?

Whenever I speak to students I seem to find it impossible to mentally calibrate their age against events properly.

Last night in answer to a question I started talking about the expenses crisis before remembering they were all four years old when it happened and had no idea what I meant.

To me that's still a recent event.

There is no funnier train station sign than "Cambridge home of Anglia Ruskin University". Everytime I see it I'm impressed all over again at the level of trolling.

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like oysters and champagne cocktails at Gow's in the 1980s, followed by some old chap at the golf course offering you a job in the City.

The general public don't care that the Tories closed down the UK's main gas storage facility in 2017. They should but they don't.

Life's not fair, especially when it comes to politics. That should be super clear by now.

So when the brown stuff hits the fan, Labour will take the brunt of the blame.

Rubbish. Look at France

It's as if the whole of the rw media have decided their sole readership is Reform voters.

Sánchez Global, por Iván Redondo Pedro Sánchez ya tiene el contexto y la estrategia idónea al hilo de lo de Irán para ganar las elecciones: “No a la guerra”. El exabrupto del chico de Queens

Sánchez's former strategy guy thinks Trump and Merz may have gifted the PM the chance of being re-elected

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Guess which country is responsible for the lack of interconnectlions. If you don't know a quick glance at a map will help you

Why are they even having a Referendum? Those can be dangerous

Probably not, but I don't think the editorial line will change much - though of course I hope I'm wrong and it's the harbinger of the UK centre right realising that the EU is their only defence against being eaten by Reform

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a map and saying you poor naive chump . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a map and saying you poor naive chump .

Europeans looking at Brits assuming that Axel Springer buying the Telegraph will make it a pro-European newspaper.

You could argue it is pro-European in a way, just not the ideological vision of Europe that many UK pro-Europeans believe in

Starmer’s position is entirely consistent with what he wrote about Iraq in 2003, a fact of enormous inconvenience to just about everybody currently criticising it. Happily for them, just like the entire bloody Chilcot Inquiry it is apparently very easy to ignore.

Kind of epic how British tabloids still haven't noticed that their pro-war position to play to an American audience isn't even popular with most Americans

There are about 300 people in the UK who think this war is a good idea, and they are all either columnists or MPs.

The Strange Death of Tory England
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Just to be a little pedantic, worth noting that the first Landesvater of non-German origin was David McAllister

Whenever Brits complain about immigrants it is worth mentioning what the British diaspora in Germany gets up to in its spare time

Westerners in Dubai don't look at maps, they look at mirrors

Westerners in Dubai don't look at maps, they look at mirrors

Tony Blair’s people are still running AI for the UK government. Just check out the ministers, staff, secondees and visitors at DSIT. Seamless continuation of Sunak’s approach. Can I stop explaining why we have a problem with American Big Tech now please.