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Southern African countries that allow trophy hunting are relieved after a bill seeking to ban the import of legally obtained wildlife trophies from Africa into the United Kingdom was blocked in the House of Lords this week.
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Last winter the British government offered a meagre 200 pounds ($236) loan for people to pay their energy bills. More recently, the government has announced a 400-pound ($472) subsidy to British families to pay their energy bills, while unveiling a 25 percent windfall tax on the profits of oil and gas companies. Yet it needs to do more.
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Half of adults (49%) who reported that they were behind on energy bills between 14 September and 8 January 2023 also reported high levels of anxiety, compared with a third of those who were not behind (33%). They were also more likely than those not behind on bills to report low life satisfaction, happiness, and feelings that things done in life are worthwhile.
These financial pressures appear to be negatively affecting the well-being of people reporting them. People who are in arrears, or are finding it difficult to make their bill payments, report lower happiness and life satisfaction and higher anxiety than people in a better financial situation. Similar trends are apparent among those who are borrowing more money or using more credit than usual.
Despite these large rises in bills, the percentage of people falling into arrears appears relatively stable. Around 6% of adults said they were behind on their gas and electricity bills between 25 January and 5 February 2023. This is the same percentage as when the question was first asked in March 2022.
However, almost half of all adults (47%) who have gas or electricity supplied to their home said they found it very, or somewhat, difficult to afford their bills between 25 January and 5 February 2023.
People who reported being behind on bills between 14 September 2022 and 8 January 2023 were more likely to report lower happiness, life satisfaction, and feelings that things done in life were worthwhile. They also reported higher anxiety than those who were not behind on bills.
Adults in energy bill arrears were also three times more likely than those not in arrears to report low life satisfaction. Almost 3 in 10 (28%) people behind on bills reported low satisfaction, compared with 9% of those not in arrears.
People behind on energy bills have a higher likelihood of experiencing moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms. This is according to previous Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis of data from autumn 2022.
The percentage of adults who reported that they were reducing their energy use because of the cost of living between 14 September and 8 January 2023 increased with age. Around 4 in 10 (40%) of those aged 16 to 24 years, who are less likely to have bill paying responsibilities, reported reducing their energy use. In comparison, over 70% of those aged 55 to 74 years reported reducing their energy use.
Parents were more likely to report reducing their home fuel use than those without dependent children, or those not living with with dependent children. Similarly, homeowners reported reducing their home fuel use more compared with renters. This may be because renters tend to be younger and could have energy bills included in their rent.
Adults struggling with bills were more likely to report low well-being in other forms. Around one in six (17%) of those who reported finding it very, or somewhat, difficult to pay their energy bills also reported low life satisfaction, and one in five (20%) reported low happiness. In contrast, just 5% of those who found affording energy bills very, or somewhat, easy reported low life satisfaction, and 8% reported low happiness.
Around 20% of people who found rent or mortgage bills very, or somewhat, difficult to pay reported low life satisfaction, compared with 7%, who found making payments very, or somewhat, easy. A similar percentage (21%) of people who found rent or mortgage payments very, or somewhat, difficult to pay reported low happiness, compared with 11% who found them very, or somewhat, easy to pay.
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It also means that anyone arriving in the UK without a visa will be unable to claim asylum, despite the majority of people being from countries like Sudan and Syria. These people, many of whom are fleeing conflict, are likely to be detained and left in limbo, unable to rebuild their lives.
On June 8, the EU agreed on a new framework on migration that reportedly calls for deportation of failed asylum cases to a third country, albeit one with some sort of a connection to the asylum seeker. That is much better than the British bill, but still gives individual European countries the right to decide which third country qualifies as safe. Activists were cautious to comment before they see the fine print of the agreement but generally believed externalization policies were gaining more appeal despite little to suggest they curb irregular immigration.
If you've received a bill from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) that you can't pay, it's important to contact them as soon as possible to try to come to an arrangement. If you don't, and your bill remains unpaid, HMRC will start proceedings to recover the money.
The Constitution lacked limits on government power. Federalists advocated for a strong national government. They believed the people and states automatically kept any powers not given to the federal government. Anti-Federalists wanted power to remain with state and local governments and favored a bill of rights to safeguard individual liberty.
The measures represent a regressive step, eroding a cornerstone of our democracy as the Government systematically shuts down avenues of accountability through a series of rushed and oppressive bills. Such attacks on our rights are most keenly felt by those who are minoritised by society and the state.
The bill will now be subject to scrutiny as it passes through parliament. Given its importance and risk, the government should not rush the legislation through its stages to avoid detailed scrutiny. Without clear answers to the following questions, the new bill will fail to make a meaningful difference.
This makes it highly likely that appeals will be lodged with the ECHR, which will need to adjudicate on whether the bill adheres to the convention, including on the rights to family life, freedom from slavery and torture. Any finding that the bill does indeed contravene the convention could ultimately lead to a confrontation between the ECHR and the UK government.
The bill also changes how modern slavery claims are handled. Current Home Office guidance states that it is usually appropriate to pause the inadmissibility process until a modern slavery consideration is completed. But the new bill restricts the ability of people who have come to the UK irregularly to access modern slavery support, and stops most people using such claims to prevent their removal.
The bill states that by requiring the removal of people who arrive in the UK by irregular means, it aims to deter unlawful migration, particularly by dangerous routes. But there is little evidence to demonstrate that those willing to risk their lives crossing the Channel will be deterred by changes to asylum policy. This was seen with the Rwanda scheme in 2022, where again this lack of evidence led the Home Office permanent secretary, Matthew Rycroft, to request a ministerial direction from the home secretary on the grounds that the civil service was unable to confirm the value for public money. 71 Home Office, Letter from Matthew Rycroft to Rt Hon Priti Patel, 16 April 2022, www.gov.uk/government/publications/migration-and-economic-development-partnership-ministerial-direction
The Evian Conference Between 1933 and 1941, the Nazis aimed to make Germany judenrein (cleansed of Jews) by making life so difficult for them that they would be forced to leave the country. By 1938, about 150,000 German Jews, one in four, had already fled the country. After Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, however, an additional 185,000 Jews were brought under Nazi rule. Many Jews were unable to find countries willing to take them in.
February 9, 1939
Limited refugee bill proposed in US Congress
The Wagner-Rogers refugee aid bill is introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Robert F. Wagner (D-New York). This bill calls for the admission to the United States of 20,000 German refugee children under the age of 14 over the next two years, in addition to immigration normally permitted. The bill will be introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative Edith Nourse Rogers (R-Massachusetts) five days later. Charity organizations across the country publicize the plight of German refugee children in an attempt to gain support for the bill. However, organizations favoring restrictive immigration strongly oppose the bill and claim that the refugee children would deprive American children of aid. After several months of debate, the bill is defeated in committee. The bill would have provided refuge for thousands of German Jewish children.