Amy G

Yes, 40k are displaced. Of the 130k vacancies, how many are 37.5hrs needed for sponsorship and how many of the employers have a licence to sponsor. This reduces the number of accessible vacancies.
New visa rules have £12.82 min wage. The nat min wage is £12.21. Employers who can sponsor, may not.

Migrants and refugee families in the UK denied childcare funding, report finds Immigration status is denying children equal access to early years education and pushing families ‘deeper into poverty’

For decades majority of migrants have been denied most forms of state support because of no recourse to public funds. When you couple it with extortionate visa costs already driving many families into poverty, it leaves children facing unequal treatment.
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The head of PGMOL was on Sky Sports five days ago. Five days. He said Lewis-Skelly’s wrongful red card at Wolves COULD NOT be overturned because VAR ‘does not want to re referee the game.’ So why has this policy been totally 180d within five days?

Iranian asylum seeker lay dead for up to four months while wearing ankle tag Mehrab Omrani’s case sparks calls from cross-party MPs for government to review plan to expand use of Clearsprings ‘dispersal accommodation’

Mehrab Omrani lay dead for up to 4 months in his ClearSprings asylum accommodation before anyone thought to check on him. He hadn’t been seen since he was first moved in.

Government pay these private companies a fortune to treat people worse than cattle.

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Hes driving me mad. Got nwaneri down the other side but we keep giving it to bloody sterling. even with his experience he doesn't go down convincingly

THIS TEAM ✊
#Arsenal

MLS doing Haaland’s celebration on the ground with Gabriel next to him shocked, but poorly drawn.

Humbled

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#Arsenal

Bournemouth's gameplay is not to score

The sponsorship arrangement is part of the hostile environment. When a sponsor loses their licence, it is the displaced worker who suffers rather than the sponsor at fault.

Post by Pete Buttigieg Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.

NYT story Live Updates: Control Tower Staffing Was ‘Not Normal’ During Deadly Crash, F.A.A. Says An internal report suggested that the controller on duty during the late-night accident was doing a job usually handled by two people. The collision between a jet and an Army helicopter killed 67 people, whose bodies were being recovered from the icy Potomac.

BREAKING: Preliminary FAA report on collision concludes air traffic control was UNDERSTAFFED.

This week, Trump offered already understaffed air traffic controllers a “buyout”. They were given a one week ultimatum to decide.

This is already building into a scandal that should collapse a Presidency.

Did Trump just blame the tragedy in Washington on Diversity policies?

WHOAAA NWANERI!!!!

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

The vile, sadistic crimes of this rape gang will not make national headlines, or trend on twitter for days. Govt will not have to account for failures to protect its victims.

And all of us are less safe, because there is a concerted campaign for us to focus only on perpetrators with brown skin.

It means something that Michael Oliver has now sent off 8 Arsenal players in fewer games than he has sent off 1 Liverpool player.

That he has never sent a City player off.

That the next teams with the highest red count under Oliver are Everton and Spurs (5).

Michael oliver again! Another precedent again! Another red again!

Daily News 21 / 01 / 2025 La Commission enregistre l'initiative citoyenne européenne sur la réutilisation et la transformation des bâtiments  La Commission européenne a enregistré aujourd'hui une initiative citoyenne europé

🚨🚨 New @ec.europa.eu report on the progress made in the European Union in combating trafficking in human beingspublished yesterday. Short🧵
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Odegaard!!! 😍😍😍

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

watched BBC's panorama-working from home. What a load of one-sided tosh. Spent more time on a dry cleaner's sob story losing profits than benefits to working mums. "WFH makes people overweight," yet sales of sandwiches & crisps are down. WFH allows workers to keep more of their wages they worked for

You will notice we have had the pictures and the stories about the Israeli hostages released.

But not a word about the Palestinian ones.

Who rules North London?

Thought odegaard was decent tonight

Never underestimate our hatred of spurs. What a way to end the lull! I wanna say this may be the game we look back on as the pivotal moment of the season

I drew North London