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CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The government expects the total arrivals across UK Resettlement and the 3 new community sponsorship routes to number in the hundreds at first, but this will grow into the low thousands as levels of illegal migration fall. A cap will be set each year." www.gov.uk/government/n...

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UK Resettlement Scheme reopens for new referrals

The Home Secretary has reopened the UK Resettlement Scheme, with around a quarter of referrals expected to be Afghan women and girls and Palestinian refugees.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I tell a lie, it changed where Starmer lives. Other than that, zero change. Utterly wild.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This scheme was the direct successor to the the Syrian VPRS scheme but never reached anywhere near this type of scale (c.20,000 people between 2015-2020.)

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Home Secretary talking about "reopening" the UK Resettlement Schemes. I assume she means she'll allow UNHCR to make referrals again. There were 296 arrivals on UKRS in the first half of the year, so people have still been coming. In the last year, arrivals on UKRS dropped by around a half.

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The OBR views migration as a net fiscal contributor not a drag. Quite a few people don't like this or simply don't believe it, but it remains the case.

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They should have fixed the roof while the sun was shining...oh.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Please excuse me while I scream into a cushion at the thought of ALL the articles I had to write on the "UK productivity puzzle" in the 2010s www.ft.com/content/c819...

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is not AI agents going rogue, but OpenAI. This hack took the company months to notice and then they notified a public email address rather than the appropriate government agency. www.ft.com/content/5613... OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website

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OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website

AI lab took months to spot the problem, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called ‘obviously unacceptable’

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Going down the 'large sites for asylum accommodation as opposed to in community for community cohesion reasons' route is going well then.

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

From The Guardian article: "Social class will not, however, be given a new legal status as a protected characteristic under the Equality Act."

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 08/07/2026

When something is so obviously a terrible idea, it is ok to just...say no thanks and ban it. We don't have to wait 15 years and then slowly ban if after a whole bunch of irreperable damage has been done to individuals and society.

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COMPAS @compasoxford.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

As part of a package of reforms to the UK’s asylum system, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced a community sponsorship route for refugees to come to the UK. Writing for The Conversation, @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social reflects on the new scheme. 🔗 theconversation.com/community-re...

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Community refugee sponsorship: how the Home Office can get its new safe-and-legal route right

Britain has some limited experience with community sponsorship.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026

You could search for years and still never find something that Trump cannot strip of its beauty. It’s an extraordinary gift

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Windrush Lessons Learnt: "Warning signs and messages...were not heeded. Instead the policy was promoted because of a resolute conviction that it would be effective and should be vigorously pursued. Warnings by external stakeholders, individuals and organisations were not given enough consideration."

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

This is a big problem. If the last information people receive is always “numbers went up” because “numbers went down” is never reported we shouldn’t be surprised that perceptions about immigration end up so skewed. Media should take some responsibility here - this is a salient and polarising issue.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Coverage for a new report from @hepi-news.bsky.social looking at languages provision in schools www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/07/01/n...

That is probably the fact that a huge majority of secondary schools in England have pretty minimal language provision. At most schools, there is less than one modern language GCSE entry for every two pupils.
"The decline in language learning explains the difficulties universities now face in filling their language courses, as well as the spate of modern language course closures in higher education," Hepi says.
The report has caught the eye of Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy. He said it highlights "a concerning picture".
"As the British Academy has long noted, provision of language subjects in secondary schools has been in decline and there are signs that the recent policy changes are making a bad situation worse," he said.
"Access is unequal, with learners in disadvantaged areas often having little to no access to language learning. This has broken the pipeline, leading to cold spots emerging in higher education and devastating our linguistic capability in research."

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Revealed preferences suggest this 37% drop in small boat nunbers (first two quarters) is treated as ×10-x50 times less newsworthy than a 37% increase has been. Given high salience of the issue, should broadcasters try to check/balance that instinct?

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The @icibi.bsky.social report published last week sets out just what a poor state asylum decision making is in. That is what drives the appeals backlog and accommodation costs. Nothing in any of these so called “reforms” does anything to address that. It only risks pulling resource elsewhere.

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It’s hard enough to run a functioning asylum system, but the package of polices the Government is enacting on the refugee tax, temporary leave and longer settlement means the Home Office will need a whole new system for refugees as well, up to and beyond 20 years after they have been granted.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"The Home Office estimates that the benefits will outweigh the costs, though this can not be evidenced at this time"

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The government shortlisted two policy options, according to its impact assessment. Option zero: Do nothing Option one: full implementation of all of the measures in the bill. As doing nothing woukd not pursue its goals, it chose to proceed.

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I think the lesson here is that capital regeneration infrastructure has to run alongside renewed social infrastructure (both public services and civil society), the latter has to be done though long term devolved funding settlements, rather than more one-off regeneration projects.

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Do politically difficult things, it's worth it.

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

New Lords report on Integration supports the commitment by MHCLG to develop an integration strategy, but notes a lack of urgency to do so. This is a consistent theme in integration policy making, seemingly forever destined for the back of the queue. publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5902/ld...

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House of Lords - Settlement, Citizenship and Integration - Justice and Home Affairs Committee

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CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

New Lords committee report on the UK’s proposed changes to the system for earning permanent residence, and discussing settlement/citizenship more generally committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's such a defining example of his failure. Had he arrived in Downing Street and immediately announced it as a moral imperative it would have won over much of PLP and voter coalition.

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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 22/06/2026

📢 NEW BLOG: The Windrush scandal was "foreseeable and avoidable". Eight years on, what should it teach us about earned settlement? Our latest blog argues the best way to honour the Windrush Generation is to ensure the same mistakes are never repeated 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/win...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

One thing we mean when we talk about "stronger social norms" is racist chants, slurs not seen as normal by most normal people. Football did more than anything else to put the idea of "zero tolerance" into practice. Elon Musk's X is doing more/trying harder than anyone else to renormalise racism

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Having spoken to social care workers affected by the changes, I *hate* this language. Party management/vibes is a terrible way to make policy at the best of times but when the futures of several hundred thousand people is at stake, unforgiveable.

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Will Allen @williamlallen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Excited for #epss2026, where I'll share work about immigrants' occupational essentialness and public views on welfare: Friday, 10.50, Broadway (Hilton). With stellar coauthors @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social @mfreino.bsky.social @deniskierans.bsky.social @isabel-ruiz.bsky.social @msumption.bsky.social

Title: Immigrant Occupational Essentialness and Preferences for Welfare Redistribution
Authors: William Allen, Jacqueline Broadhead, Mariña Fernández-Reino, Denis Kierans, Isabel Ruiz, and Madeleine Sumption
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Abstract: Who should have access to national welfare systems, and under what conditions? These questions are central to economic and migration policymaking in many high-income receiving countries. Existing evidence shows how people tend to prioritize nationals’ abilities to access welfare over migrants ("welfare chauvinism") although this varies across groups. Without dis- agreeing with this, we advance occupational essentialness as an underexplored dimension of immigrants’ profiles that also matters for welfare preferences. Conceptually, essentialness signals the centrality of work that immigrants perform to the core functioning of societies, and which often involves making contributions to and personal sacrifices for others. Our evidence comes from a pre-registered conjoint survey experiment fielded in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2021. Across in-kind and means-tested cash transfer benefit types (NHS primary healthcare, housing benefits, Universal Credit), respondents prioritized immigrants working in essential over non-essential occupations by about 0.1 of a standard deviation. This was consistent for immigrants with shorter- and longer-term residency status. However, against pre-registered expectations, respondents who were negatively materially impacted expressed more generous preferences towards non-essential immigrant workers compared to unaffected respondents, though their preference for essential over non-essential workers was also modestly smaller. These patterns have implications for theoretical and conceptual development regarding redistributive politics, and policymaking on immigration and labor markets.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Research on socio-economic duty implementation ahead of introduction in England (EHRC, 2025). The socio-economic duty has been introduced in Scotland and in Wales, and this is now due to happen in England. www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

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EHRC publishes new research on socio-economic duty implementation ahead of introduction in England | EHRC

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

NEW The end of the failed Rwanda asylum scheme An arbitration decision gives the UK a lucky final victory, but more than £250m has already been lost My latest at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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The end of the failed Rwanda asylum scheme

An arbitration decision gives the UK a lucky final victory, but more than £250m has already been lost

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This is *such* a consistent feature of living in the UK - the actual day to day experience of people in this country is so much nicer than what the press or our leadership cadre would have you think - it is remarkable in a somewhat destabilising fashion just how stark the difference is.

I posted: "Honestly this little anecdote is for me just emblematic of something I really believe: the British public are genuinely much nicer and more decent than either our political or media class are themselves, or would have you believe." I am quote tweeting a reporter Jessica Elgot noting that Labour MPs were finding people on the doorstep remonstrating with them about letting Reform in.

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

New Public Accounts Committee report on the asylum system. Striking how many of the recommendations focus on the urgent need for the Home Office to make much better links with MHCLG and local government. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

DfE pupil data is out today and shows that the number of private school pupils has dropped 5.6% since VAT was introduced. Not 25% like the independent schools council predicted. Or the 50% we saw in some right-wing papers. 5.6%.

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Important considerations on immigration changes in relation to both their retrospective nature and the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of them.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

No 10 thought net 200k or 200-250k good landing zone this time last year [white paper] but were worried it might spike above that The govt has never had a decision to aim for < net 100k. It is Mahmood's instinct But costs Treasury £20 billion. PM does not appear to have any firm view of that choice

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Net migration was 171,000 across the whole of 2025 - halving from the net migration level of 2024 (331,000 is the 2024 estimate) - ONS Driven by a fall in immigration [not a rise in emigration] Immigration is falling further during 2026, so the November number will fall again

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Applications in the year to March 2026 are down around 12%. 93,525 people claimed asylum in the UK during that time. 4 in 10 - 42% - of those who claimed asylum had arrived on a small boat. Small boat crossings are about 40% lower in 2026 that at the same time last year.

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

As expected, the immigration stats show that the asylum backlog is now down to to 35,744 cases, which is just under 49,000 people. Lowest since pre-covid. And there were 20,855 people in hotels at the end of March - which is down a third since the time of the election.

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Jacqui Broadhead @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Astonishing (yet somehow unsurprising) perception gaps in this research - major failures in both government communications and media coverage to be at this point alongside significant misinformation.

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The dumping of at-risk children by local authorities in illegal homes symbolises a broken care system and grotesque state failure. My @unherd.com column on how vulnerable children became big business - with damaging consequences unherd.com/2026/05/how-...

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How broken children became big business

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I think it unlikely that even 1/10 journalists, MPs know this about population I think it is genuinely a surprise to this govt itself that they are now going to undershoot that in 2026 and in 2027 (possibly by an eyecatching significant unplanned outflow) www.gov.uk/government/p...

Net migration 120k would leave the populatoon flat (ONS, May 2025)

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