Bernard Ryan
@bernardryan.bsky.social
Professor of migration law, based in Leicester. For social equality, multiculturalism and anti-colonialism. Now more than ever. https://le.ac.uk/people/bernard-ryan
A country and a governing class letting **individual institutions** decide on language provision - contracting out one of the key sinews of any state. A country that is burning itself down from the inside. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts
Exclusive: University moves and falling exam entries fuel concerns about opportunities for working-class pupils
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Well done FIFA for a draw guaranteeing that at most two from Brazil (ranked 6), Morocco (7) and the Netherlands (8) could get to the last 16.
Shocking speech by Chris Philp at Policy Exchange today. Debate about border control, immigration enforcement and appeal rights is one thing. Scapegoating - of immigration categories and of immigration advocates - is altogether more sinister.
What we’re not being told about racist riots in the north of Ireland: abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/what-were-... by an anonymous activist in Belfast.
Is there a dictation app out there which 1) types live as you speak 2) does not switch off when you type corrections, and 3) understands basic commands such as delete and backspace?
Went to Parliament today, to say how damaging the earned settlement model would be in highly diverse places like Leicester.
Totally this. The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.
It’s truly bizarre to describe the election campaign of a white English woman as ‘sectarian’ because she sought and gained support from Muslim voters.
Ps to previous thread. I am curious to know how Zia Yusuf himself became a British citizen. He was born in 1986, and online sources say that his parents moved to work in the UK in “the early 1980s”.
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Someone needs to start pushing for the details of this policy (which looks totally under-developed). Here are a couple of basic questions to start off.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo agoReform would create ICE-style agency and end leave to remain, Zia Yusuf to say
Irish person here, a bit hazy about English history. I learnt earlier from Radio 4 that Andrew was the first royal to be arrested for more than 300 years. I gather that the last case was in 1649. What was that about then?
Aren’t there two distinct Epstein scandals? One is about sexual abuse and trafficking, the other about cronyism at a very high level. Each needs a thoroughgoing response, separately.
Excellent piece by @jdportes.bsky.social on the clash between structural drivers of migration, and political pressure faced by Governments. Only candid and informed debate can resolve this.
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 6mo agoImmigration and the limits of "control": me in @prospectmagazine.co.uk on why, and how, Labour has got both the economics *and* politics of migration so wrong. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/724...
How come Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs get to vote on England’s student loan system?
How about a political auction over student loans, rather than immigration policy?
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Why on earth does the @guardian call the Parliament Acts ‘archaic’? They were passed in 1911 and 1949 as democratic measures, in order to ensure social reforms.
Assisted dying backers could use archaic procedure to bypass ‘undemocratic’ block by peers
Exclusive: MPs backing bill to use ‘nuclear option’ of 1911 Parliament Act if it continues to be blocked by Lords
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Poor headline, which inadvertently makes Matt Goodwin seem mainstream. His previously reported view was that ethnic minorities born *and raised* in the UK were not necessarily being British.
Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British
Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British
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Illustrated here: www.openculture.com/2019/06/two-...
Two Animated Maps Show the Expansion of the U.S. from the Different Perspectives of Settlers & Native Peoples
After John Ford, the history of U.S. expansion went by the name “How the West Was Won.” Decades earlier, in his essay “Annexation,” Jacksonian journalist John O’Sullivan famously coined the phrase “ma...
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Trump II is an extended settler colonial revival: Palestine, ICE, Venezuela, Greenland. It’s an old story, this time in digital technicolour.
Recommend this piece by @stewartmotha.bsky.social, on the parallels between the Chagos islands and Greenland.
Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · 7mo agoSTEWART MOTHA (stewartmotha.bsky.social) revisits the UK’s dispossession of the Chagossians as a cautionary tale for Greenland, where security narratives may enable a fragmented absorption of territory and distract from interconnected vulnerabilities. verfassungsblog.de/greenland-ch...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... It’s like the American revolutionary war all over again: indigenous populations preferring to stick with the imperial centre, rather than being exposed to the predations of settler rule.
Greenland’s PM says territory ‘chooses Denmark over the US’ ahead of talks with JD Vance – as it happened
Danish PM adds that Greenland is ‘not for sale’ in joint briefing ahead of tomorrow’s talks with the US
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Nigeria a new frontline in ungodly Trump's culture wars after his lies about a South African genocide against white farmers Islamist extremists kill Muslims and Christians, as Nigeria makes clear, but he poses as saviour of Christians to appease USA evangelicals www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Why has Trump ordered strikes in Nigeria and what has it got to do with the persecution of Christians?
Parts of the US right have for years been amplifying claims that Christians face violence in Nigeria, a notion the US president has helped to encourage
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We are pleased to announce we have made the UK a much less attractive place to live
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
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What’s especially shocking about this is that the ‘Salisbury convention’ is supposed to mean that Lords do not obstruct manifesto Bills. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill
Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
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The settlement consultation paper includes the remarkable announcement ("not subject to consultation") that those "with a uniquely strong attachment to this country" will not face longer periods to settlement.
In the foreword to settlement consultation, the Home Secretary tells us that "My father came here in the early 1970s, and my mother a little less than a decade later."
