Jacqui Broadhead
@jacquibroadhead.bsky.social
Director at the Global Exchange on Migration and Diversity @ox.ac.uk Believes structural problems have structural solutions. Terrier.
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9m adults in England have low literacy or numeracy. Yet our analysis shows 63% fewer people each year are taking courses to improve as funding cut. And @theifs.bsky.social analysis today shows we're spending 15-29% less per learner than in 2013-14. Not good for productivity or life chances.
January 21, 2026 at 9:44 AM
9m adults in England have low literacy or numeracy. Yet our analysis shows 63% fewer people each year are taking courses to improve as funding cut. And @theifs.bsky.social analysis today shows we're spending 15-29% less per learner than in 2013-14. Not good for productivity or life chances.
Process matters as well as rules. We don't make it easy to interact with the immigration system because our starting premise is always that they need us more than we need them. People aren't daft, they see and feel this message, even if they are in the group we notionally want to attract.
All fine - every Chancellor says this.
But won't move the dial when PM/HomeSec tell migrant workers and foreign students their presence is a "squalid chapter" & are changing rules so as to kick them out.
HMT understands damage of current trajectory but needs to act, and soon.
But won't move the dial when PM/HomeSec tell migrant workers and foreign students their presence is a "squalid chapter" & are changing rules so as to kick them out.
HMT understands damage of current trajectory but needs to act, and soon.
January 21, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Process matters as well as rules. We don't make it easy to interact with the immigration system because our starting premise is always that they need us more than we need them. People aren't daft, they see and feel this message, even if they are in the group we notionally want to attract.
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The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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starting to wonder if there might be some downside to the most senior people who cover the British government having no frame of reference beyond "westminster horserace", if I'm honest lads
Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.
January 20, 2026 at 12:59 PM
starting to wonder if there might be some downside to the most senior people who cover the British government having no frame of reference beyond "westminster horserace", if I'm honest lads
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I feel staggeringly lucky to have missed the fee increase and been able to pay off my loan on a vaguely normal timescale. People who did the same course as me at the same place two years later face an additional 9% tax for 30 years of their working life
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Britain's youth are living in Nick Clegg's shadow
All except the richest graduates since 2012 face a bespoke additional tax. No wonder they're radicalised
www.newstatesman.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I feel staggeringly lucky to have missed the fee increase and been able to pay off my loan on a vaguely normal timescale. People who did the same course as me at the same place two years later face an additional 9% tax for 30 years of their working life
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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US intervention in Venezuela marks a critical moment for one of the world’s largest displaced populations.
💭 DPhil student Alessandra Enrico offers insight into what may come next for displaced Venezuelans.
🔗https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/features/what-us-intervention-could-mean-displaced-venezuelans
💭 DPhil student Alessandra Enrico offers insight into what may come next for displaced Venezuelans.
🔗https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/features/what-us-intervention-could-mean-displaced-venezuelans
January 16, 2026 at 10:05 AM
US intervention in Venezuela marks a critical moment for one of the world’s largest displaced populations.
💭 DPhil student Alessandra Enrico offers insight into what may come next for displaced Venezuelans.
🔗https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/features/what-us-intervention-could-mean-displaced-venezuelans
💭 DPhil student Alessandra Enrico offers insight into what may come next for displaced Venezuelans.
🔗https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/features/what-us-intervention-could-mean-displaced-venezuelans
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I’m just going to share the specific bit about what was in the Grenfell report and our analysis of that >>
January 14, 2026 at 9:41 AM
I’m just going to share the specific bit about what was in the Grenfell report and our analysis of that >>
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How welcoming are UK cities? 🌃
In this @migobs.bsky.social podcast, @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social joins host Rob McNeil to explore optimism surrounding the future of welcoming newcomers in UK cities.
🎧 Listen here: staged.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/how-welcomin...
#SocSciHome
In this @migobs.bsky.social podcast, @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social joins host Rob McNeil to explore optimism surrounding the future of welcoming newcomers in UK cities.
🎧 Listen here: staged.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/how-welcomin...
#SocSciHome
How welcoming are UK cities for newcomers? | University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures
Should we be optimistic about the future of welcoming in UK cities? In this feature episode, we navigate the policies, practices and perseverance essential to strengthen migrant welcoming and inclusio...
staged.podcasts.ox.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 PM
How welcoming are UK cities? 🌃
In this @migobs.bsky.social podcast, @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social joins host Rob McNeil to explore optimism surrounding the future of welcoming newcomers in UK cities.
🎧 Listen here: staged.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/how-welcomin...
#SocSciHome
In this @migobs.bsky.social podcast, @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social joins host Rob McNeil to explore optimism surrounding the future of welcoming newcomers in UK cities.
🎧 Listen here: staged.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/how-welcomin...
#SocSciHome
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@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best
January 13, 2026 at 8:11 AM
@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best
Interesting findings on perceptions of place. People don't necessarily notice long-term investment in the public realm, but boy do they notice when it is gone.
What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...
Some key findings...
Some key findings...
Perspectives on Place: what the English think about their local area
www.southampton.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Interesting findings on perceptions of place. People don't necessarily notice long-term investment in the public realm, but boy do they notice when it is gone.
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What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...
Some key findings...
Some key findings...
Perspectives on Place: what the English think about their local area
www.southampton.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights...
Some key findings...
Some key findings...
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Interestingly, how people view their local area deteriorated significantly under the Conservatives between May 2022 and February 2024, and has since recovered slightly (on some dimensions).
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Interestingly, how people view their local area deteriorated significantly under the Conservatives between May 2022 and February 2024, and has since recovered slightly (on some dimensions).
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Likewise, people are more likely to say their area has been 'left behind' by government the more deprived an area is. There is a material base to feelings of place-based resentment.
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Likewise, people are more likely to say their area has been 'left behind' by government the more deprived an area is. There is a material base to feelings of place-based resentment.
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Crucially, pride in one's local area is correlated with levels of deprivation. Those in worse-off areas tend to be less proud of them. This highlights the logic of the government's Pride in Place programme being focused on the most deprived areas.
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Crucially, pride in one's local area is correlated with levels of deprivation. Those in worse-off areas tend to be less proud of them. This highlights the logic of the government's Pride in Place programme being focused on the most deprived areas.
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People tend to be proud of the area they live, but there is a widespread view that places have been 'left behind by government'. This is not new - the sense of places being overlooked by those in power has been bubbling away for more than a decade.
January 13, 2026 at 9:21 AM
People tend to be proud of the area they live, but there is a widespread view that places have been 'left behind by government'. This is not new - the sense of places being overlooked by those in power has been bubbling away for more than a decade.
Increasing the move-on period to 56 days (widely welcomed including by councils), pausing that increase and now setting up interim measures as a work around to avoid street homelessness (again welcome, but doesn't feel an ideal way to manage this.)
Latest post from us: Refugees at risk of street homelessness have until 16 January to extend their asylum accommodation | Ralitsa Peykova
Refugees at risk of street homelessness have until 16 January to extend their asylum accommodation - Free Movement
Following a interim agreement reached with the Home Office to prevent street homelessness, refugees living in asylum accommodation and receiving subsistence
freemovement.org.uk
January 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Increasing the move-on period to 56 days (widely welcomed including by councils), pausing that increase and now setting up interim measures as a work around to avoid street homelessness (again welcome, but doesn't feel an ideal way to manage this.)
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Anti-racism norms matter. Really shouldn’t be too much to ask of a Labour government that they shun those giving platform to overt racism of a kind that has been unacceptable in the political mainstream of this country for generations.
There were 2 Labour Cabinet Ministers last week on TalkTV Harry Cole slot which plans to invite back an overt racist who'd ban the Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor, Leader of the Opposition & Deputy Speaker from parliament & all blacks, Asians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims & Sikhs from the civil service!
December 15, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Anti-racism norms matter. Really shouldn’t be too much to ask of a Labour government that they shun those giving platform to overt racism of a kind that has been unacceptable in the political mainstream of this country for generations.
Optimism is currently unfashionable. The newly published Community Life Survey asks, "do you agree or disagree that this local area is a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together?" I wondered if we might see a sharp decline this year; it has gone down 1%, to 80% agreement.
This year - one of both mat leave and reporting travels around the country - I've found an alternative story to the "Broken Britain" narrative.
My column for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Christmas issue:
My column for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Christmas issue:
I was wrong about Broken Britain
The country can feel divided and lost, but there’s always another side to the story
www.newstatesman.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Optimism is currently unfashionable. The newly published Community Life Survey asks, "do you agree or disagree that this local area is a place where people from different backgrounds get on well together?" I wondered if we might see a sharp decline this year; it has gone down 1%, to 80% agreement.
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Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Migration Advisory Committee report on fiscal impact of main work migration routes.
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
Key table: they estimate 2022/23 cohort (those arriving in 2022/23) will over lifetimes pay about £47 billion more in taxes than they "cost" in public spending.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/693810...
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Short-term fixes in the asylum system have shifted pressures - creating new backlogs, wasting public funds and harming life chances.
We’ve mapped the asylum system to show where delays occur, and set out 4 requirements for an effective system.
Report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/an-a...
We’ve mapped the asylum system to show where delays occur, and set out 4 requirements for an effective system.
Report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/an-a...
An analysis of the asylum system - NAO report
We’ve mapped the asylum system to show where delays occur, and set out four requirements for an effective system.
www.nao.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Short-term fixes in the asylum system have shifted pressures - creating new backlogs, wasting public funds and harming life chances.
We’ve mapped the asylum system to show where delays occur, and set out 4 requirements for an effective system.
Report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/an-a...
We’ve mapped the asylum system to show where delays occur, and set out 4 requirements for an effective system.
Report: www.nao.org.uk/reports/an-a...
When they want to increase public spending, every politician is asked how they will pay for it, but the same is not true (yet) for cutting immigration (because it is incorrectly understood as not having a cost.) I wonder if that will change as the impact on the economy becomes more visible.
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
When they want to increase public spending, every politician is asked how they will pay for it, but the same is not true (yet) for cutting immigration (because it is incorrectly understood as not having a cost.) I wonder if that will change as the impact on the economy becomes more visible.
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Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
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Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
December 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.
The Child Poverty strategy includes some welcome measures to support migrant children including providing guidance for councils on s17 of the Children Act and gathering better data. Wider measure to limit the use of unsuitable and poor quality temporary accom should also help.
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The Child Poverty strategy includes some welcome measures to support migrant children including providing guidance for councils on s17 of the Children Act and gathering better data. Wider measure to limit the use of unsuitable and poor quality temporary accom should also help.