UK launches post-Brexit international collaboration research fund

In principle this sounds good. On reflection I find it ridiculous that this government and its associates think academics are daft enough to swallow this king of propaganda. They've wrecked our very useful collaboration with the EU research programmes for political reasons and then pretend they want them back. This is populist politics, putting idiots and ideologues over scholarship. Brexit over science. They then drop a few crumbs to placate us. Really? What hypocrites. They've deeply damaged UK academia, effectively dumbing it down. Government should get out of the way of our collaboration with Horizon by rejoining to solve all the other problems they've caused, and let scholars work out their collaboration Japanese scholars or others. What they meant by ‘control’ in ’16 was actually censorship and it then went full on anti-enlightenment.

ReConnect? That's an ironic name from the people that disconnected us from our colleagues in Europe. Or is it a subtle dig at us "ReMoaners"? Either way, this is all too little too late.