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🎓 With news that a tax on tuition fees from international students is set to be included in Wednesday's Budget, it's worth revisiting our study from last year which looked at public attitudes towards these students 🧵 ⬇️
Majority say international students bring significant economic benefits, study finds | King's College London
Only one in 10 disagree with this view
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🎓 With news that a tax on tuition fees from international students is set to be included in Wednesday's Budget, it's worth revisiting our study from last year which looked at public attitudes towards these students 🧵 ⬇️
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Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!
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Budget day at last.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Budget day at last.
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Okay, fairly obvious, but, despite delusions of some, the UK is not a "main destination" for migration. It's actually a competitive market, jobs, students etc. Between Mahmood's, effectively xenophobic policies, and Reeve's budget targeting international students, the economy as a whole gets screwed
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Okay, fairly obvious, but, despite delusions of some, the UK is not a "main destination" for migration. It's actually a competitive market, jobs, students etc. Between Mahmood's, effectively xenophobic policies, and Reeve's budget targeting international students, the economy as a whole gets screwed
It's Chriiiiiiiistmaaaas
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
It's Chriiiiiiiistmaaaas
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
Cool cool can we do houses next please
UK targets touts with ban on ticket resale for profit reut.rs/449Teyx
UK targets touts with ban on ticket resale for profit
Britain will ban the resale of tickets for music concerts, shows and sporting events at inflated prices, tackling the scourge of ticket touts who use technology to snap up tickets for popular events, the government said on Tuesday.
reut.rs
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Cool cool can we do houses next please
Tbqh I'm more concerned about his current racist behaviour over something he did at 16
Starmer urges Farage to explain himself over claims of past racist behaviour. PM raises Guardian reporting of allegations from more than a dozen school contemporaries of Farage.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer urges Farage to explain himself over claims of past racist behaviour
PM raises Guardian reporting of allegations from more than a dozen school contemporaries of Farage
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Tbqh I'm more concerned about his current racist behaviour over something he did at 16
An stressful, expensive, but ultimately successful experience!
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 AM
An stressful, expensive, but ultimately successful experience!
Lauren Socha for Pauline Mole pls (or Michael for George but not sure he's hapless enough)
Hoping this might be the time they finally do it with East Midlands accents
Lots to enjoy with the new Adrian Mole adaptation announcement, which is coming from the BBC"
- David Nicholls is adapting it.
- Caitlin and Caroline Moran, Jack Rooke, Dillon Mapletoft and Oliver Taylor will also be writing for it.
- It will consist of ten 30 minute episodes.
- David Nicholls is adapting it.
- Caitlin and Caroline Moran, Jack Rooke, Dillon Mapletoft and Oliver Taylor will also be writing for it.
- It will consist of ten 30 minute episodes.
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Lauren Socha for Pauline Mole pls (or Michael for George but not sure he's hapless enough)
Hoping this might be the time they finally do it with East Midlands accents
Lots to enjoy with the new Adrian Mole adaptation announcement, which is coming from the BBC"
- David Nicholls is adapting it.
- Caitlin and Caroline Moran, Jack Rooke, Dillon Mapletoft and Oliver Taylor will also be writing for it.
- It will consist of ten 30 minute episodes.
- David Nicholls is adapting it.
- Caitlin and Caroline Moran, Jack Rooke, Dillon Mapletoft and Oliver Taylor will also be writing for it.
- It will consist of ten 30 minute episodes.
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Hoping this might be the time they finally do it with East Midlands accents
Almost everyone who wanted that voted Reform so not sure where this alleged mandate comes from. Just stop being so shit and chuck some funding into education, health and social care, lads 😭
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Almost everyone who wanted that voted Reform so not sure where this alleged mandate comes from. Just stop being so shit and chuck some funding into education, health and social care, lads 😭
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Every migrant who arrives in Britain to study at a University brings in more foreign currency than we get by exporting a luxury car. Yet we are driving them away in order to appease the far right.
Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR.
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically.
“Either we all have human rights or none of us do.”
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Every migrant who arrives in Britain to study at a University brings in more foreign currency than we get by exporting a luxury car. Yet we are driving them away in order to appease the far right.
My train home has now also been cancelled so thanks owed to Claudia for making train fares affordable via delay repay, I guess.
Attempting to get to Bristol which is somewhat challenging as Swindon appears to be underwater (an improvement) but I'm now *so* delayed it's basically a free train so, yay?
November 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My train home has now also been cancelled so thanks owed to Claudia for making train fares affordable via delay repay, I guess.
For context, women have won 4 out of 11 Booker Prizes in the past decade won't somebody please think of the poor men 🙄
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 AM
For context, women have won 4 out of 11 Booker Prizes in the past decade won't somebody please think of the poor men 🙄
Attempting to get to Bristol which is somewhat challenging as Swindon appears to be underwater (an improvement) but I'm now *so* delayed it's basically a free train so, yay?
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Attempting to get to Bristol which is somewhat challenging as Swindon appears to be underwater (an improvement) but I'm now *so* delayed it's basically a free train so, yay?
Fwiw we came joint 2nd 🙃
Genuinely love our quiz master but was willing to go to fisticuffs (which I would have lost, he's Millwall) over the fact there definitely weren't five Bronte sisters
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Fwiw we came joint 2nd 🙃
Genuinely love our quiz master but was willing to go to fisticuffs (which I would have lost, he's Millwall) over the fact there definitely weren't five Bronte sisters
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Genuinely love our quiz master but was willing to go to fisticuffs (which I would have lost, he's Millwall) over the fact there definitely weren't five Bronte sisters
This was not something I was ever expecting to see in an OfS strategy but I'm delighted to finally see some acknowledgement from The Powers That Be that universities are quite good, actually 🥺
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This was not something I was ever expecting to see in an OfS strategy but I'm delighted to finally see some acknowledgement from The Powers That Be that universities are quite good, actually 🥺
Just saw Five and it was delightfully wholesome to see a bunch of 40-something working class men talk about the importance of mental health and friendship 🥺
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Just saw Five and it was delightfully wholesome to see a bunch of 40-something working class men talk about the importance of mental health and friendship 🥺
The cat got in the sink and licked a bunch of vegetable oil off a pan so we're all having a delightful morning 😷💩
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The cat got in the sink and licked a bunch of vegetable oil off a pan so we're all having a delightful morning 😷💩
Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Repost with an iconic fictional band (if you feel like it)
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Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Ducked into spoons for one for the road and they IDed everyone except us 💀💀💀
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Ducked into spoons for one for the road and they IDed everyone except us 💀💀💀