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UDDERSFIELD-BASED road safety charity Brake calls for all West Yorkshire’s speed cameras to be switched on after police admitted that only one in four is operational.
No wonder motorists feel free to drive at lethal, lunatic 108mph as exposed in the Examiner.
If ever there was a false economy, this is it. “IT’S not a gun situation,” blurted Donald Trump after the latest mass shooting took the lives of 26 churchgoers in Texas last Sunday.
It’s a mental health problem, he thinks. Yes it is. His own.
He’s too stupid to grasp that with 300 million guns in private hands in the USA such outrages will keep on happening.
More people are killed by guns in America every day than in the UK in a whole year: 33,636 in 2015, equivalent to ten 9/11 tragedies annually.
Americans shoot each other with more enthusiasm than the most dangerous terrorist.
A Twitter worker on his last day with the company disabled Donald Trump’s account for 11 minutes.
Shocking. The employee should have taken the narcissistic old fool’s account offline for good, sparing the world his fatuous views.
Somebody will make a lot of money from a book, The Collected Tweets of Donald J Trump.
You’ll find it on the science fiction shelf, next to the story of the B52 bomber found on the moon. Britain.
They’re still with us, almost two centuries later.
It is front page news that the very rich, including the Queen, hide their money in overseas tax havens.
Hidden away inside is a report that a million more children face being driven into poverty by Tory austerity.
Cuts in benefits will hit lone parents and those with a disability hardest, warn the Child Poverty Action Group and the Institute for Public Policy.
Families stand to lose an average £930 a year from cuts in tax credits while those on the hated universal credit will be £430 out of pocket.
The poor have nowhere to go to escape this grinding austerity. The rich, like billionaire Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative Party’s biggest donor, squirrel their money in the Caribbean, far away from the prying eyes of the taxman. Nothing better illustrates today’s Two Nation Britain than the juxtaposition of these stories. They show that, essentially, nothing h a s changed. Alison Graham, CPAG chief executive, says: “Since 2010, government policy has been creating an austerity generation whose childhood and life chances will be scarred by a decade of political decisions to stop protecting their living standards.”
Even after rises in the minimum wage ... working families will still be the biggest losers from benefits cuts
While many in the UK are experiencing a poverty nightmare, billionaire Tory peer Lord Ashcroft can spend his time dreaming about how to keep hold of all his cash
Even after rises in the minimum wage, higher tax allowances and extra childcare help, working families – working, not jobless – will be the biggest losers from benefit cuts.
Meanwhile, the Queen’s financial advisers have stashed away £10m of her private estate in offshore tax havens.
A relatively small amount went into Brightstone, the rent-to-buy business for household goods that has been accused of exploiting the poor. It’s hard to think of a more shocking disparity in 21st century Britain.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell demands a public inquiry into this scandal. It won’t happen.
Child Poverty Action wants Chancellor Philip Hammond to mount “a full-scale rescue mission” on universal credit in his Budget two weeks today.
That won’t happen, either. Christmas only happens in the shops.