| No Images? Click here   Boris Johnson has submitted his Brexit offer to the EU and said it should form the basis of “rapid negotiations” towards a new exit deal that scraps the Irish backstop.The prime minister outlined what he believes is the “broad landing zone” for a deal in a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, appearing to back down from his plans to insist on a take-it-or-leave-it offer.  Members of Extinction Rebellion have used a fire engine to spray 1,800 litres of fake blood over the Treasury building in Central London.After the stunt on Thursday morning, four activists stood atop the vehicle which was covered in a banner saying “Stop funding climate death”.  Women affected by controversial changes to the state pension age have lost their landmark High Court fight against the government.The state pension age has been increased by successive governments in an attempt to ensure “pension age equalisation”, so that women’s state pension age matched that of men. Nearly four million women born in the 1950s have been affected by the changes, which have raised the state pension age from 60 to as high as 66.  Northern Ireland’s strict abortion law breaches the UK’s human rights commitments, the High Court in Belfast has ruled.Sarah Ewart, 29, was refused a termination in 2013.  President Donald Trump’s latest scandal has Twitter users wondering if he’s been channelling a certain “Austin Powers” supervillain.The president privately discussed a number of extreme measures to prevent migrants from crossing the border, including shooting people in the legs to slow them down, and building an electrified wall with spikes on top and fortified with a moat stocked with snakes or alligators, according to a report Tuesday in The New York Times. Aides reportedly sought cost estimates for these schemes.   Doctors have issued a warning about the “deadly combination” of cocaine and alcohol, after the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme revealed there were at least 13 “self-inflicted” deaths linked to the drug combination in England in 2018.Dr David Bremner, group medical director for Turning Point, which offers advice and support on substance misuse, tells HuffPost UK mixing the two substances “is very dangerous” and in some cases can prove deadly.  Despite our country being gripped by a housing emergency, the few housing announcements at this week’s Conservative Party Conference are lacklustre at best and will do nothing to help struggling renters. In Wednesday’s closing speech by the prime minister, all housing got was a couple of throw away comments. Yet there were many Conservatives away from the conference spotlight who understand all too well that real change is needed right now, and their numbers are growing.We had hoped the new government might continue or even – given its promise of boldness – build upon the revival of social housing that Theresa May started in 2017, when she used her conference speech to announce the first funding for new social rent homes since 2010. On April 9, 2019, I hit my head. I was on a bus in Berlin, the city I’d moved to nine months prior, on my way home from work. The driver hit the brakes hard at the same time as I was jumping up from my raised seat and ― clack ― the top of my skull smashed into the horizontal holding bar.Now, the second before the bus braked, my only exposure to the notion of a long-lasting concussion came from Canadian ice hockey player Sidney Crosby (and that was likely due to having two brothers). A few years ago, I was visiting my best friend in Seattle. I was between jobs, not dating anyone, and very much aware that every person on Facebook and in the real world seemed to be engaged, pregnant, or experiencing some glossy professional milestone. Meanwhile I found myself getting an electric thrill when my cornershop started selling a new Doritos flavour.Luckily, my friend has two hilarious young kids: instead of fixating on flaky guys and the impending emptiness of my non-existent work calendar, I found myself reading The Gruffalo, watching Frozen and ranking popsicle flavours. On the drive back to the airport, I confessed to my friend that there seemed to be nothing waiting for me back in London.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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