| No Images? Click here   Boris Johnson has set out his plans for government in a Queen’s Speech he insists is required because Britain is “tired of stasis, gridlock and waiting for change”.The monarch has set out 26 heavily trailed bills that aim to ensure Brexit is delivered, crack down on crime, support the NHS, and protect the environment, among others.  A graphic video featuring a fake President Donald Trump stabbing members of the news media and lighting the head of a political rival on fire was played at a conference for his supporters this weekend, according to a report Sunday by The New York Times.The event, hosted by the group American Priority, took place at Trump’s resort in Miami, the Trump National Doral, and featured a litany of pro-Trump headliners, including former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr.  Sajid Javid has said the government will deliver its first post-Brexit Budget on November 6.In a signal that Boris Johnson is doubling down on his “do or die” commitment to pull the UK out of the EU on October 31, the chancellor said he would use the Budget to set out his plans “to shape the economy for the future” after Brexit.  The prospect of a Brexit deal between the UK and the EU remains uncertain as both sides conceded there was still work to do.Officials will resume talks on Monday after Boris Johnson’s meeting last week with Irish premier Leo Varadkar on the Wirral, which prompted a wave of optimism over securing an agreement.  Labour’s plans to renationalise rail companies, Royal Mail, water and energy utilities will cost £196bn up front, Britain’s foremost business lobbying group has claimed.The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said the initial cost of renationalisation would be the equivalent of spending all the money the government recoups from income tax in a year.   Less than a week after Rosy*, 26, dumped her boyfriend of two years, his mum pulled up outside her house, pushing him and his suitcase out of the car. The former couple were heading to Gatwick airport to go on a mini-break to Iceland that had been planned for nearly a year.They had a full itinerary planned of all the normal tourist attractions – Northern Lights, Blue Lagoon, Golden Circle – only now they would no longer be travelling as a couple, but two individuals who happen to be sharing a double bed.  Yom Kippur is perhaps one of the best attended religious dates in any synagogue’s year. One of the most solemn and meaningful days in the Jewish calendar, it marks the culmination of ten days’ introspection on which Jews believe God seals their fate for the year. Think of it as an all-day, shared confessional.So, like Jews going back centuries before me have done in their own way, I was in synagogue on Yom Kippur this week. And it was as I came out from the children’s services that my wife told me of the attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany. Growing up in the dangerously politicised environment of Turkey in the 1980s, I was far from an activist for any cause. In fact, like so many others of my generation who had seen the worst of political violence in those turbulent years of my home country’s history, I tried to avoid actively engaging in any political or social issues — and that included environmentalism.In college, I thought of the environmentalists around me as an entitled minority, some of whom were rich elites who had everything, while a few seemed to be sincerely looking for a purpose in life. Others I dismissed then as hard ‘lefties’ with impossible green agendas that did not appeal to me as an educated, middle-class graduate with corporate world ambitions.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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