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Using disabled young people as an argument for preserving one-sided zero-hours working is not championing them. It is using their need for reasonable flexibility to defend an employment model that disproportionately transfers risk from businesses onto workers.
Supported pathways to employment are so important and retail and hospitality can play a key role in providing them - something I championed as Govts Hospitality Disability Ambassador. We also know disabled young people need flexible and variable contracts when they move into full employment so key this is retained in zero hours contracts regulations
Just a reminder that people are still attacking a guy who is now dead, while on the same day he resigned the vice chancellor of another UK university was sacked for embezzlement. The embezzlement news got a total of 6 or 7 news articles on that day. Nothing more since.
Hey, some dude spoofed on his cv to get a job in a university… but in other news… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j1…
Please do read the thread. If you’re going to straight up tell me that you want to suppress your child’s identity, then yes I am going to point out that this law is to protect people, from people, like you.
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The hospitality industry are back lobbying for a VAT cut
They don't mention the cost: £12bn
They don't mention who gets the £:
❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Get nothing
❌ Consumers? Prices won't fall
✅ McDonald's gets £400m. Big chains are big winners
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We seem to have reached the stage where what the Bill actually says is irrelevant. You can correct the same false claim repeatedly and it simply gets regurgitated again the next day.
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Ok, two questions to a coercive-control expert. 1. Was there an amendment that you felt would satisfactorily address the CC hazard but was rejected? 2. If not, can you suggest such an amendment? (Is this just dishonest, obstructionist insistence on unreachable perfection?)
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A lot of talk from MPs about improving palliative and end of life care. All parties have never fully invested or recognised this.
I am presuming in Monday we will see the start of actions to match their words….
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LIVE NATION TAKES A STAGE FROM UNSIGNED ARTISTS AND GIVES IT TO CELEBRITY KIDS
I warned about this last month.
Live Nation subsidiary Festival Republic removed the BBC Introducing stage from Reading and Leeds after nearly 20 years.
A stage that helped unsigned artists get discovered.
They claimed the replacement would give opportunities to a “much wider pool of emerging talent.”
So who got the opportunity?
Dave Grohl’s daughter.
Liam Gallagher’s son.
David and Victoria Beckham’s son.
And a boy band created through Simon Cowell’s Netflix show.
The Guardian calls it the “nepo baby stage.”
They asked Festival Republic why they removed the BBC stage and got no answer.
@LiveNation didn’t comment either.
Take the stage away from unsigned artists. Claim you’re helping emerging talent. Then give the spots to celebrities’ kids.
THE GREAT HYPOCRISY CONTINUES
theguardian.com/music/2026/a…
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Most workers on zero hours contracts have worked for their employer for two years or more.
Not a side hustle for couple of extra bob.
Not a few weeks work to fill a gap.
Not a ‘let’s see how you get on’ job.
People’s main source of (insecure) income.
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Unpaid labour is not a solution to the youth employment crisis, it is grotesque exploitation.
Sainsbury’s made hundreds of millions in profit last year. If there are job opportunities available, they should pay fairly and guarantee full employment rights from day one.
Sainsbury’s creates 10,000 work experience opportunities to tackle youth employment crisis trib.al/dBUsn9W
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My first proper job was working for ASDA part-time, aged 17.
My employer gave me a contract that reflected the hours I normally worked.
They didn’t go bust.
They weren’t scared of taking on a teenager with zero track record.
If it was possible in 1999, it is in 2026.
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It seems insane to me that society has just accepted the nonsense concept that you need "work experience" to work in Sainbury's
Who’s going to think of all the people who get to sit in hotels and eat finger food shaped into little pyramids, served with Champaign every afternoon?
Cost of afternoon tea ingredients rises by up to 67%
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Fair play to these women for standing up to the scum bags involved in Lyras murder. We have lost to many great people to knuckle dragging scum.
They murdered our friend and they need to take responsibility, says Sinead Quinn, friend of #LyraMcKee
More anti worker rhetoric.
🚩 The Government's chaotic approach to reforming zero hours contracts, which could come at a £3 billion cost to businesses, risks soaring unemployment and serious damage to the jobs market.
We spoke to @felixKarmstrong at @CityAM 👇
cityam.com/labours-chaotic-z…
Trades bodies are awful things for workers. The government report showed that 84% of people on zero hour contracts wanted regular hours. I wonder how many zero hour contracts Kate has had.
Hey, some dude spoofed on his cv to get a job in a university… but in other news… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1j1…
Grim.
Stormont officials will have legal powers to spend up to 95% of last year's funding from Saturday, as a deadline passes without an Executive budget.
bbc.in/4w4zWG7
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Andy Burnham has said that before assisted dying is considered in England and Wales, the funding of palliative and social care should be 'fixed'.
Labour MP Lauren Edwards is moving to bring back the Terminally Ill Adults Bill following its failure to pass in the House of Lords.