Amerjit Basi
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Amerjit Basi
@amerjitbasi.bsky.social
Into books, politics, the arts, SF, urban space. Civil servant, DfE; former Head of Policy,University of Sheffield.Personal views expressed. Same name on Twitter.
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‘Research carried out last year found that if net migration increased by 31,000 a year as a result of a youth mobility scheme, it could increase GDP by 0.45% in ten years. The House of Commons library has suggested it could be worth as much as £5 billion a year’
www.thetimes.com/article/ea32...
UK needs ‘ambitious’ EU youth migration deal, says Rachel Reeves
The chancellor believes allowing young people to live and work in Britain would boost the economy and reduce the need for tax rises in the budget
www.thetimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Stayed with it, not a bad action film but blimey the liberties with history were huge. Appalled by the credits scene with Hitler (hopefully experiencing the most intense pain ever known, with no end, in some hell) & Lenin "meeting", when the Nazis murdered thousands of communists
December 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
And of course, the sniff test is one method of working out non-obvious infection! Don't try it on zombies though, pretty obvious for those guys.
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Eddie had another fight injury, on side of his head, that turned into a huge abcess. I'm still working on suppressing the memory of what came out of it when the vet lanced and squeezed stuff out last week. Now about keeping an eye/nose on it, and some maintenance cleaning.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
But have found no explanation for why Midge Ure was dressed as a leather queen in the xmas special, when singing Vienna.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM