BRITAIN: Mass migration not delivering economic benefits, study finds.

Mass migration has not delivered significant GDP growth per capita for the United Kingdom, but it has increased strain on the country, according to a new study.

While illegal immigration recently hit record highs in the United States, legal immigration poses a significant issue for the U.K., where legal migration levels are more than 25 times the level of illegal levels, according to a report Wednesday from the Centre for Policy Studies, a U.K. think tank and advocacy group.

The percentage of foreign-born people in the U.K. nearly doubled over two decades, with 9% of the population being foreign-born in 2001 to 17% in 2021, which is even higher than the U.S., where 14% of people are foreign-born.

Additionally, the United Kingdom has seen 10 million people move to the U.K. and 6.3 million leave since 2010, resulting in an additional 3.7 million new migrants.

While the study acknowledges that “correlation is not causation,” but states that a “country with more people in it will normally have a higher GDP because there are more workers,” and the increase in migration has coincided with a large decline in GDP per capita growth.

Ayn Rand pointed out 60 years ago that you can have mass immigration or a generous welfare state but you can’t have both — at least not for long.

NATE SILVER: The long, strange political shadow of 2020. “Even with Trump in charge, 2020 was probably the most left-wing moment in the US in my lifetime.1 Since then, the share of voters who say Democrats are too liberal has risen by 7 points. And Trump is counting on a continued backlash against the left. Consider what were perhaps the three most important political questions at the time: first, the fiscal response to the pandemic; second, the public health response; and third, the protests and accompanying ‘racial reckoning.’ For the most part, it was the left’s preferences that prevailed on these.”

Plus, on Covid: “Many of the most excessive examples involve California, which is why it’s a little rich when Gavin Newsom speaks of California as the ‘true freedom state’.”

HEATHER MAC DONALD: Hysterics for Hamas: Why have young women been so prominent in the recent campus chaos?

The female tilt among anti-Israel student protesters is an underappreciated aspect of the pro-Hamas campus hysteria. True, when activists need muscle (to echo University of Missouri professor Melissa Click’s immortal call during the 2015 Black Lives Matter protests), males are mobilized to smash windows and doors or hurl projectiles at the police, for example. But the faces behind the masks and before the cameras are disproportionately female, as seen in this recent gem from the Princeton demonstrations.

Why the apparent gender gap? One possible reason is that women constitute majorities of both student bodies and the metastasizing student-services bureaucracies that cater to them. Another is the sex skew in majors. The hard sciences and economics, whose students are less likely to take days or weeks out from their classes to party (correction: “stand against genocide”) in cool North Face tents, are still majority male. The humanities and soft social sciences, the fields where you might even get extra credit for your intersectional activism, are majority female. (Not surprisingly, males have spearheaded recent efforts to guard the American flag against desecration.) In progressive movements, the default assumption now may be to elevate females ahead of males as leaders and spokesmen. But most important, the victim ideology that drives much of academia today, with its explicit enmity to objectivity and reason as white male constructs, has a female character.

Student protests have always been hilariously self-dramatizing, but the current outbreak is particularly maudlin, in keeping with female self-pity.

As George Orwell wrote: “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”

POST-CHRISTIAN BRITAIN ISN’T WORKING OUT VERY WELL: Scottish Leftists Disparage a Rising Political Star Because of Her Christian Faith.

CORRUPTION ALLLLL THE WAY DOWN:  NYC lawyer sparks probe into Trump judge Arthur Engoron over unsolicited advice on $455M civil fraud case.

WHEN SATIRE APPROACHES TRUTH:

Biden Strikes Deal Where Hamas Gets To Keep American Hostages In Exchange For Fifteen Votes In Michigan https://t.co/bCkU6m09IL pic.twitter.com/SRxE58SW6l

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 9, 2024

I S’POSE SEPPUKU WAS TOO MUCH TO ASK OF HER SENSE OF HONOR?  Cornell University President Martha Pollack steps down after year of turmoil, threats to Jewish students.

I TRULY CAN’T DECIDE WHICH IS THE BIGGER INSULT TO THE PUBLIC: USING REQUIRED LICENSE FEES TO UNDERWRITE PROPAGANDA OR SENDING TAX MONEY TO THE PROPAGANDISTS:  BBC’s illegal refusal to be impartial makes the license fee unenforceable.

HE’S NOW SENILE. HE WAS ALWAYS EVIL AND CORRUPT:  Biden’s betrayal: “But for Michigan?”

THEY’RE NOT FOR CEASE-FIRE. THEY’RE ON THE SIDE OF THE SAVAGES:  Report: Biden Admin Issued Sanctions Waiver on Arms Sales to Arab States Day Before Withholding Weapons From Israel.

They probably fapped to 10-7

OH PLEASE. YOUR UNIVERSITY IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR FAD DIETING:  ‘Princeton Princess’ whines that she’s ‘starving,’ blames university after choosing to go on anti-Israel hunger strike.

Let them eat stupid. They have an endless supply.

FRACK, MILEI, FRACK:  Milei’s Argentina is fast becoming the Texas of Latin America.

Viva la libertad, carajo!

WELL DONE BUD LIGHT BOYCOTTERS. STAY THE COURSE: Flexing the right’s might.

THAT COW GOT MILKED TO DEATH. ONTO ANOTHER:  AstraZeneca Withdraws COVID Vaccine from the Global Market.

COVID COLLATERAL: A MOVIE DOCUMENTARY WORTH SEEING:  This balanced, powerful account of covid censorship must go mainstream.

WHO IS PETER DASZAK, PRESIDENT OF ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE AND LIKELY FUNDER OF THE WUFLU?  Drunken Student Stole Madonna Statue’s Head, Later Killed 6 Million People with a Deadly Virus He Designed.

A LOT OF THINGS, AND LARGELY CORRECT:  Following Up.

IT’S CLOWN WORLD ALL THE WAY DOWN:  Silly Season Arriving Early This Year.

Silly season is permanently in session now. Must be global warming.

HOW THE UNELECTED AND UNACCOUNTABLE DEEP STATE RUNS THINGS AND WHY POLITICIANS MOSTLY CAN’T GET THINGS DONE THAT THEY ARE ELECTED TO DO (VIDEO):  Liz Truss – in office but not in power.

Swamp? We need an Hercules to clean these Augean stables. Worldwide.

IN MY CASE, AND THAT OF MANY (MOST?) ON THIS BLOG? WE ARE DEEP IN THE TRENCHES OF THE CULTURE AND INFORMATION WAR:  How to Save the World.

THE SHORT ANSWER IS EVIL PEOPLE. THE LONG ANSWER IS LONGER:  Who is paying for all these Nazis protesting Israel’s Existence anyway?

BLESS BIBI:  Netanyahu Signals Defiance of Biden Threats Over Rafah, as IDF Controls Eastern Sectors of City.

A WIN FOR PRIVATE AND HOMESCHOOL:  Title IX Ruling Protects Homeschool from Federal Overreach.

OPEN THREAD: You know how this works by now.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China launches its first medium Earth orbit broadband satellites.