Anand Menon
@anandmenon.bsky.social
Director @ukandeu Bitter and twisted observer of politics. ‘Not yoda’ (DC) ‘Slightly matey politics don' (Q. Letts) Trustee, @fullfact #LUFC Most views someone else’s
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Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
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I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
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🌍 Global instability has become the new normal and our multilateral system seems increasingly fragile
Join our expert panel @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Rana Mitter, Margaret MacMillan and @fromtga.bsky.social as they discuss key challenges👇
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🌍 Global instability has become the new normal and our multilateral system seems increasingly fragile
Join our expert panel @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Rana Mitter, Margaret MacMillan and @fromtga.bsky.social as they discuss key challenges👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
UKICE Lunch Hour: Confronting foreign policy challenges - UK in a changing Europe
UK in a Changing Europe has assembled a panel of some of the world's top experts to analyse on the key foreign policy challenges we face.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
⏰ TOMORROW ⏰
🌍 Global instability has become the new normal and our multilateral system seems increasingly fragile
Join our expert panel @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Rana Mitter, Margaret MacMillan and @fromtga.bsky.social as they discuss key challenges👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
🌍 Global instability has become the new normal and our multilateral system seems increasingly fragile
Join our expert panel @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Rana Mitter, Margaret MacMillan and @fromtga.bsky.social as they discuss key challenges👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
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💶"But as the UK has started to develop new links with the EU, so too has it generated new financial obligations."
✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social explains financial flows between the UK and the EU since the UK’s withdrawal & how they may be affected by the UK-EU reset
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-sleeping...
✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social explains financial flows between the UK and the EU since the UK’s withdrawal & how they may be affected by the UK-EU reset
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-sleeping...
The sleeping dog of UK-EU finances - UK in a changing Europe
Simon Usherwood explains financial flows between the UK and the EU since the UK's withdrawal and how they may be affected by the UK-EU reset.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
💶"But as the UK has started to develop new links with the EU, so too has it generated new financial obligations."
✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social explains financial flows between the UK and the EU since the UK’s withdrawal & how they may be affected by the UK-EU reset
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-sleeping...
✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social explains financial flows between the UK and the EU since the UK’s withdrawal & how they may be affected by the UK-EU reset
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-sleeping...
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‼️ Don't miss our next Lunch Hour on Tuesday on confronting foreign policy challenges
With leading experts Anand Menon Fiona Hill, Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter & Timothy Garton Ash
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‼️ Don't miss our next Lunch Hour on Tuesday on confronting foreign policy challenges
With leading experts Anand Menon Fiona Hill, Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter & Timothy Garton Ash
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice-lunch-hour-confronting-foreign-policy-challenges/
UKICE Lunch Hour: Confronting foreign policy challenges - UK in a changing Europe
UK in a Changing Europe has assembled a panel of some of the world's top experts to analyse on the key foreign policy challenges we face.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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‼️ Don't miss our next Lunch Hour on Tuesday on confronting foreign policy challenges
With leading experts Anand Menon Fiona Hill, Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter & Timothy Garton Ash
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‼️ Don't miss our next Lunch Hour on Tuesday on confronting foreign policy challenges
With leading experts Anand Menon Fiona Hill, Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter & Timothy Garton Ash
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice-lunch-hour-confronting-foreign-policy-challenges/
Bloody hell www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Bloody hell www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
'there is simply no sign of a fiscal catastrophe from the “Boriswave"...this would seem to suggest that the recent collapse in immigration will harm Britain’s finances..' @lgilbert.co for @ukandeu.bsky.social on the economics of immigration ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
'there is simply no sign of a fiscal catastrophe from the “Boriswave"...this would seem to suggest that the recent collapse in immigration will harm Britain’s finances..' @lgilbert.co for @ukandeu.bsky.social on the economics of immigration ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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Thank you for a brilliant lecture Prof @anandmenon.bsky.social
"Brexit, in other words, is both cause and consequence of a lot of what is going on in our politics today."
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave the 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture, looking at how many of the issues facing the UK preceded Brexit and how these issues and Brexit affect our politics now
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave the 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture, looking at how many of the issues facing the UK preceded Brexit and how these issues and Brexit affect our politics now
November 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Thank you for a brilliant lecture Prof @anandmenon.bsky.social
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"Brexit, in other words, is both cause and consequence of a lot of what is going on in our politics today."
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave the 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture, looking at how many of the issues facing the UK preceded Brexit and how these issues and Brexit affect our politics now
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave the 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture, looking at how many of the issues facing the UK preceded Brexit and how these issues and Brexit affect our politics now
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Brexit, in other words, is both cause and consequence of a lot of what is going on in our politics today."
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave the 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture, looking at how many of the issues facing the UK preceded Brexit and how these issues and Brexit affect our politics now
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave the 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture, looking at how many of the issues facing the UK preceded Brexit and how these issues and Brexit affect our politics now
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This is a very good line-up.
The @benchu.bsky.social 3 part BBC report on taxes this week is great, I really recommend it.
The @benchu.bsky.social 3 part BBC report on taxes this week is great, I really recommend it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This is a very good line-up.
The @benchu.bsky.social 3 part BBC report on taxes this week is great, I really recommend it.
The @benchu.bsky.social 3 part BBC report on taxes this week is great, I really recommend it.
Economists Assemble
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Economists Assemble
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Important, timely, analysis by @lgilbert.co debunking the commonly used line that "migrants are a burden". Shows that migrants are overwhelmingly bet fiscal contributors. Basically, you target migration, you crash the country.
"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them."
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Important, timely, analysis by @lgilbert.co debunking the commonly used line that "migrants are a burden". Shows that migrants are overwhelmingly bet fiscal contributors. Basically, you target migration, you crash the country.
Obviously, it's up to the EU to decide who it wants to have access to its market and on what terms. But this suggests to me they're rowing back on commitments made in the Common Understanding agreed at the May summit 1/3 www.ft.com/content/8963...
EU demands UK pay into budget as part of relationship ‘reset’
Growing tension between London and Brussels just six months after summit set out to build stronger ties
www.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Obviously, it's up to the EU to decide who it wants to have access to its market and on what terms. But this suggests to me they're rowing back on commitments made in the Common Understanding agreed at the May summit 1/3 www.ft.com/content/8963...
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Despite shifting politics and declining support for the industry, Dudfield said the goal hasn’t changed. “We’re fact-checkers. We check facts,”
The UK’s fact-checkers are sending their AI to help Americans cover elections - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Despite shifting politics and declining support for the industry, Dudfield said the goal hasn’t changed. “We’re fact-checkers. We check facts,”
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"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them."
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"Home Office data suggests that recent immigrants are more likely to be working than British nationals and make higher wages than them."
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
✍️ Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out,
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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Probably more helpful to spell out in the headline (as the article itself does) that he has been summoned to appear but Congress cannot make him do so
🔺 Breaking: Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been ordered to appear before the US Congress, after members said it was “time for him to come forward” about his “ties” to Jeffrey Epstein
Andrew ordered to appear before Congress over Jeffrey Epstein links
www.thetimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Probably more helpful to spell out in the headline (as the article itself does) that he has been summoned to appear but Congress cannot make him do so
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I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
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Nigel Farage says Reform would “reduce the size of the bloated state” by seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate
@jreland.bsky.social points out in @the-independent.com that this creates a dilemma - the more the UK does things differently to the EU, the more work there is for British bureaucrats
@jreland.bsky.social points out in @the-independent.com that this creates a dilemma - the more the UK does things differently to the EU, the more work there is for British bureaucrats
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Nigel Farage says Reform would “reduce the size of the bloated state” by seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate
@jreland.bsky.social points out in @the-independent.com that this creates a dilemma - the more the UK does things differently to the EU, the more work there is for British bureaucrats
@jreland.bsky.social points out in @the-independent.com that this creates a dilemma - the more the UK does things differently to the EU, the more work there is for British bureaucrats
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Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Stop. Policing. Poppies. That's. Not. What. Remembrance. Is. About.
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Hell of a line up assembled by m’former colleagues here.
💥 Don't miss our next Lunch Hour💥
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🌎 Join us for a discussion on foreign policy and the challenge to multilateralism
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UKICE Lunch Hour: Confronting foreign policy challenges - UK in a changing Europe
UK in a Changing Europe has assembled a panel of some of the world's top experts to analyse on the key foreign policy challenges we face.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Hell of a line up assembled by m’former colleagues here.
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💥 Don't miss our next Lunch Hour💥
🌎 Join us for a discussion on foreign policy and the challenge to multilateralism
With leading experts @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter and @fromtga.bsky.social
💻 Online
📍Tues 11 Nov, 1pm GMT
ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
🌎 Join us for a discussion on foreign policy and the challenge to multilateralism
With leading experts @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter and @fromtga.bsky.social
💻 Online
📍Tues 11 Nov, 1pm GMT
ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
UKICE Lunch Hour: Confronting foreign policy challenges - UK in a changing Europe
UK in a Changing Europe has assembled a panel of some of the world's top experts to analyse on the key foreign policy challenges we face.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
💥 Don't miss our next Lunch Hour💥
🌎 Join us for a discussion on foreign policy and the challenge to multilateralism
With leading experts @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter and @fromtga.bsky.social
💻 Online
📍Tues 11 Nov, 1pm GMT
ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
🌎 Join us for a discussion on foreign policy and the challenge to multilateralism
With leading experts @anandmenon.bsky.social, Fiona Hill, Margaret MacMillan, Rana Mitter and @fromtga.bsky.social
💻 Online
📍Tues 11 Nov, 1pm GMT
ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
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Having studied immigration attitudes + misperceptions for decades, 3 things stand out:
- they change, but it's so tribal that each side thinks it's settled when it moves in "their" direction
- our misperceptions are a signal of worry as much as a cause
- BUT that doesn't mean facts don't matter...
- they change, but it's so tribal that each side thinks it's settled when it moves in "their" direction
- our misperceptions are a signal of worry as much as a cause
- BUT that doesn't mean facts don't matter...
"So a major driver of immigration becoming such a central societal and political issue is a growing concern about asylum seekers perceived as coming illegally – but this is built on an extraordinarily wrong view of their scale"
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social write for the LSE
@bobbyduffy.bsky.social & @elielcohen.bsky.social write for the LSE
Imagined immigration is shaping our politics | British Politics and Policy at LSE
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November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Having studied immigration attitudes + misperceptions for decades, 3 things stand out:
- they change, but it's so tribal that each side thinks it's settled when it moves in "their" direction
- our misperceptions are a signal of worry as much as a cause
- BUT that doesn't mean facts don't matter...
- they change, but it's so tribal that each side thinks it's settled when it moves in "their" direction
- our misperceptions are a signal of worry as much as a cause
- BUT that doesn't mean facts don't matter...
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"Brexit, in other words, is both cause and consequence of a lot of what is going on in our politics today."
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave some reflections on the origins, evolution and impact of Brexit on the UK and its politics
Catch up in full 👉 youtu.be/ztqL7ZaTWik?...
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave some reflections on the origins, evolution and impact of Brexit on the UK and its politics
Catch up in full 👉 youtu.be/ztqL7ZaTWik?...
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"Brexit, in other words, is both cause and consequence of a lot of what is going on in our politics today."
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave some reflections on the origins, evolution and impact of Brexit on the UK and its politics
Catch up in full 👉 youtu.be/ztqL7ZaTWik?...
🗣️ @anandmenon.bsky.social gave some reflections on the origins, evolution and impact of Brexit on the UK and its politics
Catch up in full 👉 youtu.be/ztqL7ZaTWik?...
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Interesting lecture by @anandmenon.bsky.social.
How politics have shaped the narrative over the last 10-20 years.
He talks about people wanting change, but doesn't go into what change they want - maybe citizens don't know.
If we need a sense of direction what's it to be ? Ending child poverty ?
How politics have shaped the narrative over the last 10-20 years.
He talks about people wanting change, but doesn't go into what change they want - maybe citizens don't know.
If we need a sense of direction what's it to be ? Ending child poverty ?
I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Interesting lecture by @anandmenon.bsky.social.
How politics have shaped the narrative over the last 10-20 years.
He talks about people wanting change, but doesn't go into what change they want - maybe citizens don't know.
If we need a sense of direction what's it to be ? Ending child poverty ?
How politics have shaped the narrative over the last 10-20 years.
He talks about people wanting change, but doesn't go into what change they want - maybe citizens don't know.
If we need a sense of direction what's it to be ? Ending child poverty ?
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there's something horribly inevitable about what's happened!! what could we have done differently. . . and much more important, what can we do now, to give ourselves (most Brits) a better future. . .it's all a bit sobering and uninspiring, even if it's pretty revelatory! well worth watching
I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
there's something horribly inevitable about what's happened!! what could we have done differently. . . and much more important, what can we do now, to give ourselves (most Brits) a better future. . .it's all a bit sobering and uninspiring, even if it's pretty revelatory! well worth watching
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He might be Leeds but damn, he's good
I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
He might be Leeds but damn, he's good
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Worth 49 minutes of anyone time who’s interested in politics, especially the last 25 years.
I did a lecture on the impact of Brexit on British politics. Watch it here if you're really bored www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztqL...
Reflections on the Brexit Revolution: 2025-26 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture
YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Worth 49 minutes of anyone time who’s interested in politics, especially the last 25 years.