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Scottish Sun
12 hours ago
- Politics
- Scottish Sun
Fury as over 6,000 migrants use pre-paid cards loaded with £50 a week funded by YOU at betting shops & casinos
Shadow Home Secretary brands finding a 'slap in the face' for British taxpayers MIGRANTS' BET SPREES Fury as over 6,000 migrants use pre-paid cards loaded with £50 a week funded by YOU at betting shops & casinos Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) OVER 6,000 migrants have used government-issued cards loaded with £50 a week at betting shops and casinos. Pre-paid cards given out to pay for basics including food and clothing were used in gambling venues, Home Office data reveals. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 1 Thousands of migrants have used government-issued cards loaded with £50 a week at betting shops and casinos Credit: Getty In the last year, up to 6,637 asylum seekers have used taxpayer handouts to fund their gambling habits. At the highest incidence, 227 asylum seekers attempted to use or successfully used the cards to gamble in a week last November. While attempts to gamble online using the cards had been made, they were blocked each time so they were forced to use them in physical sites. There are currently around 80,000 ASPEN card users in the UK. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp told PoliticsHome: 'It is shocking that over 6,000 illegal immigrants have attempted to use hard-working British taxpayers' money to gamble. "They have illegally entered this country without needing to – France is safe, and no one needs to flee from there. 'The British taxpayer has put them up in hotels, and now they slap us in the face by using the money they are given to fund gambling. 'These illegal immigrants clearly don't need the money they are given if they are squandering it at casinos and arcades.'
Hindustan Times
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
You star Anna Camp frustrated after not getting nominated for Emmys 2025: ‘Gave one of the best performances of my life'
American actor Anna Camp isn't hiding her feelings after her name was left off the list of 2025 Emmy nominees. The 42-year-old took on dual roles as Raegan and Maddie Lockwood in the final season of You, performances she believes rank among her finest. Anna Camp played Raegan and Maddie Lockwood in YOU Following the nomination announcement on Tuesday, Anna voiced her disappointment on Instagram. She posted a still from You that shows her character staring at a phone with a puzzled look. 'Me reading about the nominations this morning knowing I gave one of the best performances of my life while also trying to be happy for everyone and while also remembering I vowed to stop drinking during the week,' she wrote alongside the image. Though visibly frustrated, Anna also received an outpouring of support. Among those cheering her on was her girlfriend, Jade Whipkey, who commented, 'BLOWN AWAY. not many people ever get the chance to play twins and NO ONE has ever done it like you did. Take notes Hollywood!!!' Anna also shared supportive fan reactions on her Instagram Story. She responded to the messages with a heartfelt, 'I love my followers.' Despite the acclaim from fans and loved ones, Anna was notably absent from the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama category. Nominees this year included Julianne Nicholson (Paradise), Katherine LaNasa (The Pitt), Patricia Arquette (Severance), and The White Lotus stars Aimee Lou Wood, Carrie Coon, Natasha Rothwell, and Parker Posey. Anna's role on You was recurring in its final season, making her eligible for a nomination. The series itself, however, has never received any Emmy nods across its five-season run. The nominations for the 2025 Primetime Emmy Awards were unveiled on Tuesday, with actors Harvey Guillén and Brenda Song hosting the announcement. Among the top contenders this year are The Pitt, Adolescence, Severance, The Bear, and Hacks—all receiving multiple nods across key categories.
CTV News
15-07-2025
- Business
- CTV News
‘Emotional for me to come back': New top executive named for Youth Opportunities Unlimited
A new top executive has been named to lead Youth Opportunities Unlimited. It's a new face but one with long ties to the organization. Steve Cordes has been Executive Director of Youth Opportunities Unlimited (YOU) for more than 35 years. One of his final tasks has been preparing a report to help with the leadership transition. 'As I was writing that and reminding myself of those milestones, it becomes really emotional for me. I was telling the management team earlier this week when we talked about vulnerability, when you bring your vulnerability to work. And I said, 'I'm getting used to crying in public now,'' said Cordes. Having Andrea Topham named as his successor has given Cordes confidence the organization is in good hands. 'I am retiring more easily knowing that it's somebody who understands the culture so welcoming it.' Topham's fingerprints are already on the YOU operations. She was with the organization as they launched the Cornerstone Project in 2011. It was a bold initiative that established geared youth supportive housing in the Cornerstone building at York and Richmond. 'I learned so much, and I've taken so much of what I've learned from Steve with me, for sure. It's emotional for me to come back. I'm excited to come back. And really, really honored that I get to build on the legacy that Steve created here.' 071525 Steve Cordes and Andrea Topham tour Joan's place. (Gerry Dewan/CTV News London) Youth Opportunities Unlimited has changed dramatically in the time that Steve Cordes has been at the helm, going from a youth employment consultation service to offering a wide range of opportunities for young people. That includes skills training young people to start working in the YOU Cafe. More recently they added transitional housing that's part of Joan's Place. It's geared to young women who are pregnant, young mothers and young families. Topham is hoping to build on the work done under Cordes' leadership. 'For me, it's really about learning from me and the staff who has been working at these opportunities are the experts in this work. And I think that my job is really to work alongside and support them. And then together, we'll look at where we're going to go next.' YOU board chair Terry Gillis says there were more than 100 candidates for the executive director position, but he's gratified that the successful candidate was someone with strong ties to the community and the organization. 'The coming home. She knows the organization so well. She knows the sector so well. We really feel it's going to be seamless.' Topham is currently CEO of the Community Services Coordination Network, which supports children and youth with developmental disabilities. She'll assume her new role with YOU on August 18th.
The Age
05-07-2025
- Politics
- The Age
There is only one worthwhile test of social cohesion. We may have just failed it
The idea that an artwork should not be 'divisive' is an extraordinary one, an anti-creative concept which, if you follow it to its natural conclusion, leads us inexorably to the end-point of propaganda. And yet anxiety over possible divisiveness seems to have been the guiding emotional principle applied by the board of Creative Australia, the government's main arts body, when it abruptly sacked Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi and his curator Michael Dagostino as Australia's representatives at the prestigious Venice Biennale next year. The board, which this week reinstated the duo in a spectacular backflip, originally said it acted to avoid the erosion of public support for Australia's artistic community that might ensue from a 'prolonged and divisive debate'. It is assumed that a prolonged and divisive debate about an artwork is a bad thing, but it doesn't have to be. To be fair, the board's anxieties were well-founded. Loading It was February 2025 and a caravan full of explosives had been discovered in north-west Sydney. This incident was quickly labelled an anti-Jewish terror plot but was later revealed to be a 'criminal con job'. The Peter Dutton-led Coalition was hammering the Albanese government (then behind in the polls) for being soft on antisemitism. Horrific pictures of burnt and maimed Gazan children aired on television nightly. Jewish-Australians were encountering antisemitism in their day-to-day lives. Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel forces were demonstrating on the streets and clashing in arts organisations. Sabsabi, stridently pro-Palestine Lebanese-Australian, had made clear his view on Israel when he decided to boycott the 2022 Sydney Festival because it took $20,000 in funding from the Israeli Embassy. His boycott was well before the horror of the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas on innocent Israelis, a day of rape, torture, kidnapping and slaughter from which more and more horror has unspooled. Sabsabi's views on Israel were known when he was chosen, as was his body of work, which includes a video and sound installation called 'YOU', owned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. 'YOU' features multiple versions of an image of Hassan Nasrallah, former head of Hezbollah.
Sydney Morning Herald
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
There is only one worthwhile test of social cohesion. We may have just failed it
The idea that an artwork should not be 'divisive' is an extraordinary one, an anti-creative concept which, if you follow it to its natural conclusion, leads us inexorably to the end-point of propaganda. And yet anxiety over possible divisiveness seems to have been the guiding emotional principle applied by the board of Creative Australia, the government's main arts body, when it abruptly sacked Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi and his curator Michael Dagostino as Australia's representatives at the prestigious Venice Biennale next year. The board, which this week reinstated the duo in a spectacular backflip, originally said it acted to avoid the erosion of public support for Australia's artistic community that might ensue from a 'prolonged and divisive debate'. It is assumed that a prolonged and divisive debate about an artwork is a bad thing, but it doesn't have to be. To be fair, the board's anxieties were well-founded. Loading It was February 2025 and a caravan full of explosives had been discovered in north-west Sydney. This incident was quickly labelled an anti-Jewish terror plot but was later revealed to be a 'criminal con job'. The Peter Dutton-led Coalition was hammering the Albanese government (then behind in the polls) for being soft on antisemitism. Horrific pictures of burnt and maimed Gazan children aired on television nightly. Jewish-Australians were encountering antisemitism in their day-to-day lives. Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel forces were demonstrating on the streets and clashing in arts organisations. Sabsabi, stridently pro-Palestine Lebanese-Australian, had made clear his view on Israel when he decided to boycott the 2022 Sydney Festival because it took $20,000 in funding from the Israeli Embassy. His boycott was well before the horror of the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas on innocent Israelis, a day of rape, torture, kidnapping and slaughter from which more and more horror has unspooled. Sabsabi's views on Israel were known when he was chosen, as was his body of work, which includes a video and sound installation called 'YOU', owned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. 'YOU' features multiple versions of an image of Hassan Nasrallah, former head of Hezbollah.
