A pandemic is a long time in politics. So we should not be surprised that our notoriously inconsistent Prime Minister now urges EU citizens to come back to the UK.Only a few months ago, during the General Election campaign, he was accusing them of having treated the UK as though it were ‘basically part of their own country’.Perhaps Boris Johnson should ask himself … [Read more...] about Mixed messages on migration
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EU academics: no thanks
“The UK’s university sector is one of our most valuable national assets,” Prof Brian Cox, the University of Manchester academic and TV presenter, told me last week.He argued that UK higher education “is a genuinely global industry generating billions of pounds in export earnings, one of the necessary foundations of our innovation-led economy and perhaps our strongest soft … [Read more...] about EU academics: no thanks
Stains on our democracy
Amber Rudd’s resignation as Home Secretary – and her replacement by ex-communities secretary Sajid Javid – highlights not just a UK department in chaos but Britain’s cruelly confused attitude to immigrants and refugees wherever they come from.Rudd was supposedly “humane”; Javid is a second-generation Muslim immigrant (and ex-banker). But both are cast in the same … [Read more...] about Stains on our democracy