| No Images? Click here   We were promised the mother of all showdowns when MPs returned to the Commons this week after Boris Johnson revealed plans to suspend parliament – and Westminster certainly delivered that.Tuesday night saw Johnson lose his very first vote in the Commons as PM, with a group of rebel Conservatives joining with opposition MPs to successfully take control of parliamentary agenda.  A judge in Scotland has ruled that Boris Johnson’s plan to shut down parliament is lawful.Legal action aimed at preventing the government from suspending parliament ahead of the Brexit deadline of October 31 was considered at the Court of Session in Edinburgh.  Tory rebels who joined a cross-party alliance to block a no-deal Brexit have tonight been sacked by Boris Johnson.Downing Street has confirmed 21 MPs who helped opposition MPs inflict a bruising Commons defeat on the government on Tuesday night have had the Conservative whip removed.  An investigation has been launched after eggs were thrown at a baby in a “racially aggravated” assault.Officers were called after a woman and her nine-month-old baby were attacked while crossing the road at around 11.30am on Tuesday, West Mercia Police said.  Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has announced the withdrawal of an extradition bill that sparked months of protests.The bill, which would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, where courts are controlled by the Communist Party, triggered months of unrest and posed the gravest challenge to Chinese leader Xi Jinping since he came to power in 2012.   It’s biscuit week! Episode two’s technical challenge saw Great British Bake Off contestants getting flustered over a controversial ‘biscuit’ choice: the humble fig roll. (Really though, is it a cake or a biscuit?!)After Dan’s speedy exit in week one, the remaining 12 contestants kicked off this week’s flour-filled instalment with an ambitious-looking bunch of decorative chocolate biscuit bars. And there were issues a-plenty as Alice forgot to turn the oven on and Jamie’s biscuits refused to set in any way, shape or form – a real “dog’s dinner”, as he put it.  Hearing the news that 93% of constituencies in line to receive additional education funding under the new Prime Minister are Tory-held shows yet again that this is a Government with misplaced priorities.It’s former coalfield communities that need the cash. The violent thoughts came to me suddenly, and without hesitation, in the summer of June 2017. It was 5pm, and I was lounging around the beach house with my parents, when all at once, I was hit with a wave of the loudest and most disturbing thoughts I have ever had.I’m going to kill someone. For the past few years, I have been traveling the world, running away from snow and the cold. After one winter in northern Maine in 2011 and waking up mid-spring to three feet of snow, I bought a one-way flight to the Caribbean and hadn’t spent a winter farther north than South Carolina since.Last fall, while living in Mongolia, I decided I was ready to attempt another real winter and applied to work at the Taos ski resort in New Mexico as a line cook. I had never learned how to ski or snowboard and thought they would be fun new sports to add to my repertoire. What could possibly go wrong?  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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