"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

It’s blame, too: blaming young people for not earning enough & for having problems with anxiety & depression. And not a thought about the social & economic conditions that might be making life tough for the young. Good luck getting this generation to vote for you, Kemi.

From today’s Playbook - I find it curious that none of these political geniuses ever seem to consider how UK GDP growth might have looked in the few years post Brexit (a time of acute focus on relative economic performance) w/out immigration.

Although Badenoch doesn’t mean Oxford. As ever (and we’ve seen versions of this not-quite-policy for years), it looks like it would target universities more than courses. Elitism is always ok.

I agree with @eve.gd

And within a minute there’s a Tory with a new group to blame for our problems. Young people with anxiety and depression: sounds like a decent electoral strategy. #r4today

This is dreadful news

This interview with Lord Sewell is mental #bbcpm

Ah, yes. Tories' popularity is flagging, so why not ask one of Australia's most hilariously unpopular PMs for advice?

Tony Abbott's plan for undocumented migrants? "Hold them in some kind of a mothership" and invade a neighbouring country "on a quiet and moonless night". Clown.

‘Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator.’

How gender-affirming care continues to work in Australia (as it once worked - albeit starved of resources - in the UK).

Valuable perspective on the UK sociopolitical context.

Quite a paragraph, methodically outlining the failings of Cass.

This Australian critique of the Cass Review is well worth a read. Some highlights …

This is the same level of nuance and reflection that gave the UK hard Brexit

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

If this, seriously, is Badenoch’s best attack-line against Mahmood, she might be in even more trouble than we thought. #bbclaurak

Indeed. Given that uni managers have been saying for years that home fees don’t cover costs, over-recruitment is hardly a sign of health. It’s evidence of desperation - to stave off the cuts happening just about everywhere.

But it’s extraordinary how that piece can have been written without any account of the more common experience across uk universities: under-recruitment, contraction, ongoing redundancies. Over-recruitment is a temporary problem of the privileged elite.

BREAKING: At least 84 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 69 people in Gaza City, hospital sources told Al Jazeera.

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This is a great piece of local journalism - about all those flags going up in Brum.

Some interesting details.

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This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).