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... The chair of UK Parliamentary's Science, Innovation and Technology Committee has written a letter to the Minister for Science Lord Patrick Vallance, asking for more effort to lure boffins fleeing the land of the not-so-free-anymore.

"Some universities in Europe have already begun to actively recruit researchers from the US, and countries such as Netherlands and Australia have set up funds to recruit top foreign scientists. The latter is inviting contributions from funders to support a 'national, coordinated effort' to provide a competitive relocation package for scientists leaving the US," wrote Chinyelu "Chi" Onwurah, the Member of Parliament for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central and West.

The EU recently launched a 500 million ($566 million) plan to pull in scientists from abroad, with France pledging another 100 million ($113 million) to help, she noted.

It's like a reversal of the Brain Drain that Britain suffered from the 1960s onwards, where talented and highly educated UK nationals headed west in search of higher pay and better prospects in America. ...