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‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project
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Plans are under way to finally help Britain’s unemployed young people – will Labour pull it off? | Polly Toynbee
Alan Milburn is preparing to implement his report to bring young people back into work. Let’s hope the government will see it through As certainly as the moon pulls on the tides, Labour governments improve the lives of the poorest children. Just as surely, Conservative governments pull back and reverse the good done. Here we go again: despite the social devastation caused by George Osborne’s cuts last time, Kemi Badenoch announces that she wants to impose cuts to universal credit for the poorest if she gets the chance. She doesn’t do subtle, none of Iain Duncan Smith’s cruel-to-be-kind routine, but goes straight for populist rabble-rousing, stirring up fact-free contempt for anyone on benefits, with a proposed ban on buying cigarettes and alcohol, or gambling, with benefit money. Welfare, she says, must not be “a lifestyle choice for those who can’t be bothered”. As with all crude rightw
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Sagal Abdi-Wali: Labour’s candidate in Starmer’s former seat zeroes in on local issues amid Green challenge
Former Camden council leader’s message is clear: she’s ‘visible, committed and local’, and has been for a long time Sagal Abdi-Wali does not want to be the prime minister. She doesn’t even want to lead her party. Labour’s candidate for Holborn and St Pancras laughs and shakes her head with unusual vigour when asked if she would like to follow in the footsteps of the last member of parliament for the constituency, Keir Starmer. “No, no, no, no, that’s not at all, in any way, what I’m trying to do,” she says during a break in campaigning in the Primrose Hill cafe in Regent’s Park. “I’m literally trying to get through the next few weeks and trying to be the member of parliament for this constituency, and that’s all I care about.” Continue reading...
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Two-year waiting times highlight NHS struggle with rise in ADHD and autism awareness
Assessment bottlenecks have knock-on effects, with delays in medical help and access to specialist support • NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments That NHS boards have imposed minimum two-year waiting times for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism assessments shows a health service struggling to deal with the consequences of huge changes in understanding of and social attitudes to these conditions. Sharp rises in referrals for clinical assessments over the past six years mean nearly 1 million people in England are on ADHD waiting lists, with the average wait already over a year (64 weeks). About 295,000 await an autism assessment. Continue reading...
BBC Politics
Miliband tells Iran minister UK will not tolerate 'hostile activity' on British soil
The foreign secretary stresses "the UK's unwavering resolve to combat threats from Iranian-linked groups in UK soil, including attacks on the British Jewish community".
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Fifteen new members in Isle of Man general election
Three ministers lose their seats and Peel and Glenfaba elects the Isle of Man's youngest MHK.
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Marina Hyde on Trump, tech bros and Taylor Swift - podcast
Guardian columnist Marina Hyde on the release of her new book What a Time to be Alive! “I think increasingly the way to survive the news is to say things like: ‘I find it fascinating from a human behaviour point of view,’” says Marina Hyde . “It’s like a firewall against actually thinking: ‘My God, I mean, what are we living through?’” On the publication of her new book, What a Time to Be Alive! , The Guardian’s award-winning columnist talks to Nosheen Iqbal about Donald Trump, AI, Taylor Swift’s wedding … and her chance, tragic encounter with Keir Starmer. Continue reading...