| No Images? Click here   Commons speaker John Bercow has compared the prospect of Boris Johnson ignoring a law to block a no-deal Brexit to “robbing a bank”.In a speech on Thursday night Bercow – who this week revealed his plans to step down as speaker later this month – said it was “frankly astonishing” that anyone had even thought about ignoring the legislation.  A 55-year-old man who was killed in a skydiving accident in Arizona had been given the jump as a 30th wedding anniversary gift by his wife.Christopher Swales was found unconscious on the ground at Grand Canyon National Park Airport on Sunday and died later in hospital.  Nine people have been arrested after climate change activists planned on disrupting Heathrow using drones.Three women and six men - aged between their 20s and the 60s - were arrested in the early hours of Friday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance within the perimeter of Heathrow Airport, the Metropolitan Police said.  In March 2017, our colleagues at HuffPost US collaborated with the nonprofit news company ProPublica to help create a database of hate incidents. This stemmed from concern that President Trump’s ascension to power was emboldening bigots to spread hatred in the streets of their country.It’s a depressingly familiar picture for those of us on the other side of the Atlantic. Like the US, the UK is in the midst of a growing populist movement and hate crime incidents are on the rise.  The coat that first lady Melania Trump wore in a photo her husband tweeted to commemorate the 9/11 anniversary has fashioned into quite a Twitter controversy.But it’s a flap that White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham dismissed as “ridiculous,” according to USA Today.   Worries about access to medication are mounting after the release of the government’s Yellowhammer report on Wednesday, detailing worst-case scenarios in the event of a no-deal Brexit.Fin McCaul, a community pharmacist in Manchester, tells HuffPost UK a customer asked him for a “lifetime supply” of medication for their heart condition this week.  On Wednesday, I did something that almost every other MP has: I sat down in the House of Commons. This is usually not a very controversial action to take – indeed, MPs often do more controversial things when they’re standing in there to speak.But this Wednesday was different. Boris Johnson, our unelected prime minister, at the behest of the also unelected bureaucrat Dominic Cummings, took the decision to suspend Parliament because he wanted to shut down any scrutiny of his government. An unelected leader stopping an elected body from meeting because he didn’t like what they were saying, is more like Tsarist Russia than 21st Century Britain. As a kid in the ’90s, I dreamed of having the sleek, straight hair of Posh Spice or Rachel Green. But my hair had other ideas. It was wild, frizzy and far too thick to look normal on a small child ― a deeply unwanted homage to my Irish roots. My childhood diaries are populated by stick figures struggling to be free of monstrous brown cloaks consuming their heads.My mom and grandmother hated the idea of me getting my hair cut, and in my early teens ― when I begged for straighteners ― they acted like I’d politely asked if they could pick me up some crack cocaine. But when I was 14, a friend straightened my hair, and my dad was so impressed with the transformation that he personally thanked her and took me on a covert trip to buy some ceramic straighteners. I was born on Martha’s Vineyard, and I come from a long line of Vineyarders. I spent many years off-island, working as a boat captain, and then I returned to the Vineyard and came to live in West Tisbury with my mother – Dionis Coffin Riggs, a poet.She and I opened a bed-and-breakfast catering to poets and writers.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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