This a proper scandal. To meet Sunak's stupid target that no one cares about tens of thousands of aslyum seekers have just been withdrawn from the system.
Abandoned and whereabouts now unknown.
Deindustrialisation policies in UK local authority plans appear to ramp up with each iteration.
This is really a big tech subsidy, with high equipment obsolescence, rather than independent micro manufacture, modification, repair, reuse. It impacts international trade politics.
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"Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has permanently changed Russia," writes @nataliabugayova. "It has cemented an ultra-nationalist ideology that believes in expansion by force and that is inherently anti-Western." (1/3)
welcome to the week after Christmas, the date is sometime between Tuesday and August, a handful of cheese at 4pm counts as a meal, Irish Cream can be consumed between 6am and January and putting on your high school band shirt from your parents’ closet counts as “getting dressed”
he’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, he’s gonna find out who's naughty or nice, santa claus is in contravention of article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
In the last ten years, I've seen:
1. A small cottage industry of made-to-measure Shetland sweater knitters disappear.
2. Two bridle leather goods makers close down. No replacements.
3. A major West End bespoke shoemaking firm shutter.
4. Two major American suit factories narrowly saved from the brink of bankruptcy (almost completely wiping out suit production in the US).
5. A major American shirtmaking factory also narrowly saved from permanent closure.
6. Vanners, one of the oldest silk mills in England, having started in 1740, was repossessed by administrators for the second time in two years. Management told me it's largely because of the decline in high-end neckwear sales around the world.
7. One of Britain's best leather goods manufacturers, RBJ Simpson—otherwise known as Simpson London—closed.
8. Caerlee Mills, which made some of the best Scottish cashmere knitwear in the world, many under the name Ballantyne, turn off its machines after 225 years of operation. The video below shows the factory being demolished.
9. Several bespoke tailors and bagmakers pass away or retire. In many cases, they did not have apprentices, so there was no one who was able to take their place. Their businesses just closed.
10. One of the best American tailors (a cutter, technically) called me in 2021 after he lost one of his coatmakers to COVID. He wanted to know if I had any recommendations to coatmakers in the US or around the world, as he doesn't know anyone left in the US who can sew a bespoke suit jacket or sport coat together anymore. The only people I could recommend to him were in Southern Italy.
Today is the 11-year mark of Sandy Hook and still nothing has changed. We just released this video @DemocracyMoms with our partners called Thoughts & Prayers. We hope you follow us there and donate to the cause to help us get this on the air. #gunreform https://t.co/DY98A3nvEB
In 1995 there were estimated to be around 1.5 million hedgehogs in the UK - today, there are believed to be less than 500,000. 😢 We need to do all we can to help our hedgehogs.
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If you live in the Bay Area and have room in your heart and home, this cat will be your best friend. Winter is drawing near and this cat should not be back out on the street. Please help spread the word and adopt, if you can.
All across this great land, people proceed to fire up specialized machines literally called "leaf blowers", which burn irreplaceable fossil fuels, pumped out of the ground at great expense, to produce, in addition to carbon monoxide and noise, powerful blasts of forced air.
@lingerie_addict Beyond the pension issue, Congress has been coming up with bizarre standards for USPS around profitability and stamp prices. Most of the issues are externally imposed (or DeJoy).