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I see there is no mention of the £570m per year cost in the question.

Instead it mentions 'without paying extra fees'.

According to the BBC there were 9,900 UK students who participated in Erasmus in its last year so if an equivalent number took part that would make it about £57k per student.

Compare with the Turing scheme which seems to be benefitting about 40k students for only £100m.

Once again the EU is exposed as a waste of money and this government yet again shows it couldn't get interest free credit at DFS.

I don't understand the logic of Erasmus.

40k people is considerably more than 9,900.

£100m is considerably less than £570 million.

If we have a half billion pounds lying about to spend on tertiary education, why not give it via Turing which was already helping four times more people at 1/6th of the cost?

I think the Erasmus placements are substantially longer than the Turing placements, that is, a semester or year rather than a month.

I see there is no mention of the £570m per year cost in the question.

Instead it mentions 'without paying extra fees'.

According to the BBC there were 9,900 UK students who participated in Erasmus in its last year so if an equivalent number took part that would make it about £57k per student.

Compare with the Turing scheme which seems to be benefitting about 40k students for only £100m.

Once again the EU is exposed as a waste of money and this government yet again shows it couldn't get interest free credit at DFS.

I don't understand the logic of Erasmus.

40k people is considerably more than 9,900.

£100m is considerably less than £570 million.

If we have a half billion pounds lying about to spend on tertiary education, why not give it via Turing which was already helping four times more people at 1/6th of the cost?

Starmer might have to avoid Brighton hotels for the next few years.

Palestine Action hunger strikers ‘set to die unless minister acts’

David Lammy, the justice secretary, has refused to meet lawyers for eight protesters refusing food while they await trials scheduled for months away

Palestine Action activists on hunger strike are likely to die in prison if the justice secretary does not intervene, lawyers for the eight protesters have claimed.

On Wednesday two of the group reached day 46 of their protest — the point at which Martin Hurson, 24, became the sixth of ten IRA hunger strikers to die in 1981. A third is on day 45.

In a letter sent to David Lammy, the justice secretary and deputy prime minister, on Tuesday the activists’ lawyers said that without intervention their deaths were “increasingly more than a mere possibility. It is a likelihood.”

Qesser Zuhrah, 20, who is on remand in HMP Bronzefield in Surrey, has been refusing food since November 2. She collapsed “a few nights ago” with her legs shaking uncontrollably, her lawyers said.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/palestine-action-hunger-strikers-set-to-die-unless-minister-acts-qcjttqg8t

The callous comments some have made under this disgust me, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Nope.

Fuck them. If they die it’s down to them and no one else

I’m more concerned about the WPC twatted with a hammer.

Why not stop feeding prisoners? Those who’s friends and family care enough will bring in food. As for the rest ….

Perhaps they can send a cake with a file inside it.

What happens if they don’t have a computer to open the file?

Stadiums replace beef burgers with venison to cut carbon emissions

Brentford FC and Twickenham among those to have changed menus in move claimed to reduce harmful greenhouse gases by 85 per cent

For decades, the simple beef burger has been a staple part of the match-day diet of the United Kingdom’s sport-loving population. But now its presence at sporting events is under serious threat, as venues across the country are making the switch to wild venison in an attempt to reduce their carbon emissions.

The sustainability push is taking place at venues including Brentford’s Gtech Stadium, Molineux Stadium in Wolverhampton, the Oval cricket ground and the Allianz Stadium in Twickenham. Catering company Levy UK, which has implemented this initiative at more than 20 venues in the UK and Ireland, says it will have a dramatic impact on emissions.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/12/10/sport-stadiums-replace-beef-with-venison-to-cut-emissions/

Ok I'll ask.

Is it vegan?

EDITL: For those who don't know, venison is actually cheaper than beef now. The premium prices are for particular cuts and rarity value. If you start ordering by the hundred ton.....

Cheap? I'd always heard it was rather dear...

Please have a hart and spare us such puns.

You expect that? D'oh!

Let’s let that idea lay fallow for now.

Sorry, I'm not going to roe back.