Love this interactive ONS map on births in England and Wales.

London, Cambridge, Oxford, York - all baby-free zones. Unsurprising given house prices!

Not a single LA with TFR above replacement rate (Barking and Dagenham comes closest at 1.98).

Amazing. Political courage and integrity.

Are universities helpless to avoid controversy?

Sometimes they've been unfairly treated as punching bags, or been the victims of circumstance.

But university leadership does have agency - and the best use it.

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It's nice and funny and everything, but it is sort of insane that the Chancellor has to replace the infested carpets in a flat owned by the government at his own expense

I've had a few people make this argument to me 'we have enough homes nationally'.

Putting aside whether this is true... who in Bristol are you going to allocate to go and live in Saltcoats, Blyth or Grimsby? Because I'm betting its not you.

📺 LIVE NOW: Europe after October 7: new faults lines and ripple effects

With Gilles Kepel

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European human rights law is routinely incompatible with the basic requirements of the rule of law and should be condemned accordingly.

For centuries, the British model of rights protection has secured decent government and respect for the rights and freedoms of individuals.

‘What however is not explicit is the actual freedom for individual academics to determine more broadly the methods and content of their own teaching…This is a complex area …but a vital one’
The Critic

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Or we could build more houses.