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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 5h

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 2d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 3h

The huge investment by New Labour in London's state schools - now consistently rated the best in the country - may also be a factor. They had to go up-market to differentiate themselves from the much-improved state schools.

Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

I keep one muddy boot here in the sticks (happens to be in France) and one scruffy trainer, and my heart, in Brixton. I acknowledge my good fortune. Good luck to you.

Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

On reflection, and with thanks to the many people who have commented, I would like to withdraw the last part of this post which should have ended with a full-stop after '...feel'.

Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 2d

London is certainly changed for the missing 'young euros', but most were only ever there temporarily earning £££ as baristas between graduating and settling down - creating a 'holiday economy' feel that alienated many longer-term Londoners (esp. black & brown ones).

Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

I do now: Brexit and the pandemic forced a choice when we retired. I also go back to London (where I keep a room in my house) once or twice a month. I am still very much a Londoner.

Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

You are right; I shouldn't have used the word 'many'. 'Some' would have been much more appropriate. My apologies.

Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

Our household has always been political! And around the time of the Brexit vote, particularly so.

Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

It's only anecdotal, but it is from several different sources. Vibes I picked up during many fairly heated discussions about Brexit at the time, from all sorts of people. YMMV.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

I'm only reporting what some of the people I spoke to thought about a particular feature of European immigration - the young Euro surge and its 'holiday economy' effect, on our part of South London. Conversations around our kitchen table.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

I didn't do a survey. I talk to my friends, my lodgers and their friends around our kitchen table. People vote for all sorts of reasons. My poc friends openly discussed being conflicted about Brexit - but there was never any question which way they would vote on the day.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

That is not what I said. I said that many found the surge of young Euros around 2010-2015 alienating. Tbf they also found the surge of white gentrifiers moving in to Brixton alienating.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely. Lambeth, our borough, the highest remain vote in the country. Not saying that the young Euro surge turned my friends Brexity, far from it, but that they did find the numbers alienating. We talked about it a lot.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

I still have nights out with that friend. That particular night stands out, and around then I couldn't persuade him to come out because he knew similar things would happen.

Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 4h

I didn't do a 'study', so it is formally unevidenced. But I did live in London, have young Euros living in my house. I saw and felt the different reactions. Obviously not alienating to all; certainly to some. A feature of some quite heated Brexit discussions round my kitchen table at the time.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 5h

They weren't planning on settling or making careers here - so took fairly menial hospitality jobs. Same as young Brits going to ski resorts. Its effect on London in particular was noticeable. Maybe only S.London?

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 5h

They do it less: it's mostly that the young Euros simply weren't used to having people of colour around in the same sort of numbers. It was hardly ever malicious, but that didn't make it any less infuriating. And it was certainly racial.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 5h

A couple of years in London was absolutely a rite of passage for a section of middle-class European youth (as it was/is for Australians on the working holiday visa). They came in enough numbers to be a very noticeable demographic - when they were here, and when they had left.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 5h

When I ran a cafe/bakery in Brixton in the early teens, those young Euros were great employees, much more reliable and flexible than local youth, many of whom had complex/chaotic home lives.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 5h

We went to an event at the Hootenanny in Brixton, 2015ish I think. Our kind of music funk/soul/reggae, his was almost the only black face there, ours almost the only English voices - it was rammed with young Italians. Very weird.

Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 5h

anecdotal only from a number of friends. One friend kept getting his locs touched/felt by curious young Euro women in clubs/bars. As he pointed out, in reverse he would have been thrown out. Another time he was asked 'if he was security'.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 19h

He is also easily manipulated, and people are getting better as it as he loses more of his marbles.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 21h

Really important that Trump keeps the pressure on. Or rather, that the Gulf states keep the pressure on Rubio to keep on Trump-whispering towards two-states in the end.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 22h

Knowingly or not, Hamas have always played into Israeli-right hands. They have a common interest: avoiding a 2-state solution. Israeli behaviour in the West Bank is as pernicious as anything they have done in Gaza.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 22h

It's still not entirely clear to me whether we (French residents) will be directly affected. We do regularly cross Dover-Calais and are far too familiar with its delays. Always at school holidays, even well before Brexit.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Of course luxury dining brands went global. Everything went global. Football teams, property, universities, K-pop, the Cotswolds, the English language, vaccines, luxury brands, spices, comedy festivals...

This is the modern world. www.ft.com/content/94d9...

How high-end restaurants went global

As a new generation sets out in the footsteps of Nobu and Zuma, Jay Rayner examines the rise of ‘luxe’ food chains — and whether it has come at a cost

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