Ben H. Ansell

by Ben H. Ansell

Ben Ansell

@benansell.bsky.social

Not sure about this new Black Eyed Peas song tbh

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Jacob T. Levy

@jacobtlevy.bsky.social

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Prospect Magazine

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🎧: @benansell.bsky.social joins Prospect’s @aloner.bsky.social and @imaanirfan.bsky.social to discuss the rise of ethnonationalism in British politics, and the popularisation of the term “white British”.

Robert Jenrick and the rise of British ethnonationalism

Ben Ansell explains why the term ‘white British’ has gone politically ‘viral’

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Chris Giles

@chrisgiles.ft.com

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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In today’s Lightbulb, Prospect’s free daily newsletter, @benjamin-clark.bsky.social queries the right’s obsession with “white British” people, as @benansell.bsky.social joins the Prospect Podcast to discuss the trend with @aloner.bsky.social and @imaanirfan.bsky.social.

The rise of British ethnonationalism

Plus: would leaving the ECHR really be so catastrophic?

prospectmagazine.substack.com

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by Ben H. Ansell

Ben Ansell

@benansell.bsky.social

IIRC net emigration of Brits is a pretty constant number and also relative to inflows and outflows of non-Brits is pretty small.

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by Ben H. Ansell

Ben Ansell

@benansell.bsky.social

We are absolutely going to get rooster taking credit for the sunrise stuff when the government claims its immigration policies being introduced now are responsible for the already baked in decline in numbers that will be announced in just over a month.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Journalistic shorthand is net migration "currently stands at 430,000": that was the last figure (Jan-Dec 2024) in May 2025

It is a fact - not a prediction- that it is currently lower. (2025 data visa shows down again). I can predict that will obvs be confirmed on Nov 27th in data *to June 2025*

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)

@sundersays.bsky.social

Journalistic shorthand is net migration "currently stands at 430,000": that was the last figure (Jan-Dec 2024) in May 2025

It is a fact - not a prediction- that it is currently lower. (2025 data visa shows down again). I can predict that will obvs be confirmed on Nov 27th in data *to June 2025*

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by Ben H. Ansell

Ben Ansell

@benansell.bsky.social

Hope the university compact goes a similar way

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 2d

Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.

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Jess Calarco

@jessicacalarco.com

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Gavin Jackson

@gavinjackson.bsky.social

Britain as a case study in actually-existing abundance: promise to get rid of the “blockers” but planning reform takes ages, deficit-financed infrastructure spend crowds out house building and it’s hard to sustain a political coalition around possibly making an incremental improvement to growth.

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Ben Ansell

@benansell.bsky.social

At that point I felt, oh why not just block them

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by Ben H. Ansell

Ben Ansell

@benansell.bsky.social

People so scared about a false positive that they will allow a million false negatives.

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by Ben H. Ansell

Ben Ansell

@benansell.bsky.social

Did a tariff write this?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

Righty-o.

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by Ben H. Ansell

Ben Ansell

@benansell.bsky.social

While I burnish my neoliberal credentials - my understanding is that most people don't go enough for checks but a few people are perhaps over-regular users, where the moral hazard critique does kick in a bit.