| No Images? Click here   Black and minority ethnic domestic abuse survivors are facing the prospect of sleeping rough, being re-victimised or even having to return to their abusers because of systemic failings and discrimination by public authorities, a new project has uncovered.In its first 12 months, the Women Against Homelessness and Abuse (WAHA) project supported 255 black and ethnic minority women as they attempted to secure housing after fleeing domestic abuse. Their cases exposed failures on the part of the police and local councils to provide the support demanded by law.  It’s been another huge political week. The Brexit negotiations nearly collapsed, a delegation of scores of Tories demanded reassurances from their leader and the Queen was dragged into politics again in recent days.Much of the damage has been done after anonymous “Number 10 source” briefings, some or all of which are thought to have emanated from Boris Johnson’s controversial chief of staff, Dominic Cummings. You've Got Mail: Newsletter Update IncomingWe're making changes to the HuffPost UK Daily Brief newsletter to provide you with a better experience and want to ensure you don't miss out. If you stop receiving email, please check your spam or junk email folders, or contact us at dailybrief@huffpost.com. We apologise for any inconvenience.   People could die as a result of a no-deal Brexit, the outgoing Chief Medical Officer for England has said, in the starkest warning yet about the consequences of crashing out of the EU on October 31.Professor Dame Sally Davies said it cannot be guaranteed that there will be no medical shortages if the UK fails to reach an agreement with Brussels by the end of the month.  The US has removed two British militants accused of beheading hostages for the so-called Islamic State (IS) group from Syria into American custody, according to a report.The New York Times said Britons Alexanda Kotey and El Shakee Elsheikh are among several dozen who will be taken into custody by the US military, though it was not known if the pair had already been removed from Syria.  Coleen Rooney’s reps have insisted that it is “irrefutable” that leaked information about her “came from one account, and one account only” after she accused Rebekah Vardy’s Instagram account of sharing stories about her.The star – wife of former England player Wayne – has claimed the Instagram account of her friend and fellow footballer’s wife was behind the leaking of stories based on her personal social media posts.   For the past two years, Iain Ross has seen a therapist weekly. Not because a GP referred him, but because he sought out help himself. And he’s not alone.In England especially, therapy is more popular than ever. There were 1.2m referrals to NHS England’s improved access to psychological therapies (IAPT) programme in 2014-15 and almost half a million more referrals (1.6m in total) in 2018-19 – that’s not even taking into account the huge numbers attending private therapy.  There’s going to be a lot of talk about mental health today, and that’s good. You can only resolve a problem when you identify it; and you can only identify it when you use the right words for it.So today I want to talk about the enormous problem of mental health as yet unidentified because we keep using the wrong word for it. And that’s the problem with women and confidence. Mental health is complicated. Bipolar disorder is complicated. And life is complicated too. But navigating the world with a chronic mental health condition as a Muslim woman of colour is even more complicated.I should know. “It’s just a skating show with a load of celebrities, isn’t it?What does it matter?” Listen, as someone who got bizarrely sucked into the most recent series of Dancing On Ice, I will be the first to say that it’s not exactly boundary-pushing television. At face value, the show is essentially a throwaway “Strictly Come Dancing – but with ice skates”, that fills a void in your Sunday nights when it’s too cold outside to actually do anything else.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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