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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 3h

Going to have to disagree with Will on this one. Who could have ever possibly predicted this astonishing turn of events? My gob remains very much unsmacked.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6h

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

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Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps

Moscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4h

oh my god

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5h

Reform's deputy leader on Solihull Council quit to be an independent yesterday, saying it was for personal reasons by mutual consent. It came a day before ITV news broadcast his racist comments when filned undercover. He says mass deportations must make Britain 99% white

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5h

This is actually wrong, and plays into the false narrative that recent migrants are "low-skilled/low paid". In fact new migrants do a range of jobs, from low to high paid, with somewhat faster earnings progression than earlier cohorts migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

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Upward mobility? Earnings trajectories for recent immigrants - Migration Observatory

This analysis uses new data from HMRC to show how the size and earnings of the migrant employee workforce has changed over time in recent years.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8h

Podcast: 'The Portes One' with @jdportes.bsky.social Diving into pensions, welfare, and immigration: • The welfare bill • The state pension and small boats in perspective. • Does immigration raise GDP and GDP per capita? • Does the Right have a point.....? rolandmcs.substack.com/p/podcast-th...

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Podcast: The Portes One

What the data really says about pensions, welfare, and immigration, with Professor Jonathan Portes

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 9h

Unless you want Ben Gvir to become Israel's prime minister, you should advocate for sanctions. They are the only means to encourage course correction within Israel, while that is still possible. But I have no doubt that those who oppose sanctions today would oppose them also against PM Ben Gvir.

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 10h

. @tomswarbrick.bsky.social has just announced this as a talking point for his show. He wants to know what this tells us about the UK, immigration and our job market. He did not indicate that he has any idea that the numbers are complete bullshit. Is anyone surprised? @lbc.co.uk

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13h

I see the "migrants taking all the new jobs" nonsense is back, in the Mail, Telegraph and Times. Reminder that this is BS, and IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says. I expect corrections from all of them (Times has already agreed to correct) www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/1183...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11h

Sigh. I see you'd prefer to witter on with your xenophobic rants rather than do as I suggest and actually go look at the data on employment and wages. Not interested. Crawl back under your rock. Goodbye.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

andrew sullivan getting the facts wrong while regurgitating braindead racist memes? crazy

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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 13h

Race hatred still rife on X and Ofcom risks being 'played' by the platform - @britishfuture.bsky.social response to today's Ofcom update: www.britishfuture.org/race-hate-on...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11h

Times has now updated the headline to "Nearly three million foreigners added to UK workforce since 2014" and published a correction

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 12h

sigh. Such BS. You can simply look at wage data for recent migrants.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 13h

The Conservatives have finally given an explanation for how they over-stated the supposed cost of net zero by nearly £500bn in Kemi Badenoch’s flagship policy document. It was a “source error”, her spokesman says, which I think means it was copied from the IEA/Spectator and not checked.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 15h

The Jewish Chronicle ran a piece by a well-known racist who arged the SS weren’t that bad really - and definitely not as bad as Hamas - because the industrial annihalation of Jews really upset them.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 15h

A year ago, you could perhaps explain this as cowardice. Fearing Farage was headed for 10 Downing St, they felt a need to suck up to him. But given this seems far less likely now, we just have to conclude that this is their politics.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 16h

The editors let Nigel Farage write for the Jewish Chronicle. Nigel Farage. A man who got a standing ovation from Nazis (www.dw.com/en/nigel-far...) before they were mainstream. What a shameful day.

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Farage speaks to Germany's far-right AfD

Nigel Farage, the ex-leader of UKIP and a chief Brexit campaigner, has addressed a rally of Germany's far-right AfD party in Berlin. He received a standing ovation as a model of right-wing political a...

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 16h

As far as I know you won't need Starlink to navigate to the North London pub @columnist.bsky.social and I are hosting Emergency Brexit Bluesky Drinks at on Thurs Nov 5 7pm on. DM for the venue if you don't know it. If you see this message you're invited.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17h

Call me a masochist, but I'm returning to this issue, as I feel it has been poorly understood. Please read the whole thread before responding. First, I hope we can agree that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza and horrific crimes in the West Bank and the wider region.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

@resolutionfoundation.org still providing free content to the white supremacist propaganda site, here recording 0 likes and 0 retweets in 7 hours.

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Gráinne 🍉 @thrillpool.bsky.social · 20h

Nobody has "unfettered access to welfare". What you mean is that migrants get to jump through the same hoops as those born in Britain, plus all the extra hoops that come with being a migrant (plus a language barrier).

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17h

( I doubt he uses AI for this. He's just someone who published repeated, deliberate lies in the service of racism and xenophobia.)

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17h

Not to be humourless, but I will repeat again that Hymas is a repeat offender when it comes to serious and severe journalistic malpractice, and I am happy to back that up with evidence.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 17h

Nigel Farage is in no position to be dictating anything to anyone about racist, and shame on the former Labour minister who said this, what an absolute disgrace.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 17h

Leaving the ECHR, abandoning Net Zero, throwing people out of their homes for being foreign and deporting legally settled immigrants are all far-right positions. They are also advocated by senior Tories with no repercussion or are official Tory policy.

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 18h

I will defend the welfare state to my death bed, but gods sometimes I am tested.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The EHRC @equalityhumanright.bsky.social - where I am one of the newer Commissioners since May 2026 - are now looking to appoint the next Scotland Commissioner and next Wales Commissioner. If that might be you, please do consider applying: links follow in thread. The closing date is November 9th.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Same paper, same journalist, a few weeks apart. I'd say it was cognitive dissonance, but that gives them too much credit. It's simply propaganda in the service of xenophobia and racism

Migrant households receive record 12 bn in universal credit

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18h

3. And then there's this stuff. bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18h

2. However, on immigration, I am happy to accuse Hymas of serious and serial malpractice, with evidence. For example, this, where he wrote a story claiming that 1 in 12 Londoners was an illegal migrant, which contained at least 4 separate errors. www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0025...

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00251-25 Portes v The Daily Telegraph - IPSO

Jonathan Portes complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that the Daily Telegraph breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of Practice in an article headlined “One in 12 in ...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18h

You are both (IMO) wrong! 1. I do not think there's any evidence/reason to believe this is made up. Point of my post was the internal contradiction/cognitive dissonance. I don't know whether highlighting it was deliberate or inadvertent, but either way it's funny and no reason to think it's fake

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Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Whatever anyone's view on the fairness of the home office approach to housing people seeking asylum, Sunderland is objectively not full. The city's population is still smaller than it was thirty years ago.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

incredible thread where Stephen repeatedly has to explain the idea that race is primarily a social convention, not a biological category

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Same paper, same journalist, a few weeks apart. I'd say it was cognitive dissonance, but that gives them too much credit. It's simply propaganda in the service of xenophobia and racism

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 13/10/2026

Oh FFS We went through this years ago. Maybe British nationals are retiring so this is isn’t surprising.

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Yonatan Berman @yonatanberman.com · 13/10/2026

📢 Job alert! Our sister department - King's Business School Economics is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) Apply (and more information) here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

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Edward Driftwood @edwarddriftwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The fact that The Times has descended to the level of insanity of the Sun, Telegraph etc. is underpriced and seems to go unnoticed by many people who still see it as "one of the better ones" is worrying. That this blindness by them in turn isn't being commented on is worrying as well.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

the fact that they unironically use the term Boriswave is a good sign that the Times has cooked its brain on X

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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When I consider the degree to which some people in my life have been genuinely radicalized by what is supposedly one of the tentpoles of British journalism (to seemingly no backlash), it makes me so angry that I struggle to speak or think clearly.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I agree that your/Russell's xenophobia/racism is separate from your ignorance of the facts/economics,and there's nothing much to be done about the former, but if you wanted to correct the latter you could simply read the analysis I posted earlier.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Except she has got the facts on this entirely wrong yet again, since she's not interested in them; she's pushing her/the Times' racist agenda.

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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When people talk about 'captured by ideology', this is what it actually looks like: emotion masquerading as fact, totally detached from empirical reality

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

as @jamesbowes01.bsky.social has explained in some detail, the proposals as currently framed would undoubtedly require many/most of those affected to leave. And that is very clearly what the Times/Russell want - the fake numbers are just a smokescreen.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The full article, by the egregious Jenni Russell, is here: archive.ph/QIPEn

archive.ph

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