| No Images? Click here   Boris Johnson has said it is “very sad” that Charlotte Edwardes went public with the claim he squeezed her thigh under the table during a private lunch.The prime minister has denied the allegation as it threatened to overshadow the Conservative party’s conference in Manchester and its core message of “get Brexit done”.  A huge increase in drug fatalities has contributed to the biggest rise in deaths of homeless people in England and Wales since records began.Deaths of homeless people increased by 22% to 726 in 2018 – the largest rise since 2013, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures.  Capitalism is in crisis and the government must radically reform the UK because “people are pissed off”, a Tory MP has said.John Penrose said it is “clearly true” that the system “isn’t working well enough” for ordinary people and has not been since the financial crash.  BBC Director-General Tony Hall has overturned a controversial complaint against presenter Naga Munchetty.The BBC Breakfast journalist was found to have broken the broadcaster’s editorial guidelines after she criticised racist comments by Donald Trump.  The Met Office has warned of torrential rain and thunder in parts of the country on Tuesday.Some regions are expected to receive the equivalent of two weeks worth of rain in less than an hour.   “It’s not easy to look at yourself in the mirror when you’re bald with no eyelashes,” says Angel Shepherd-Bascom, 23, who was diagnosed with cancer last year.But the gymnastics instructor, from Surrey, has learned to “own the changes” in her appearance caused by treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma – and now, she wants to help others in similar situations do the same.  Boris Johnson has a record of treating women badly. This is hardly breaking news and yet today, like on countless other days since he became prime minister, I have been asked to comment on this fact, dissect what it means for the country he leads, and condemn him in the strongest terms I can muster.Over the last week, Johnson has dismissed as “humbug” the well-founded fears of female MPs who have received death threats; it has been alleged by journalist Charlotte Edwardes that Johnson groped her thigh and that of another woman at a work event while he was editor of the Spectator; and a book Johnson wrote in 2007 has resurfaced, in which he made racist and sexist comments including a description of a female sat nav voice as “scrotum-tighteningly thoughtful” and a comment about the county of Hampshire “opening her well-bred legs to be ravished.” Seventy years ago today, Mao Zedong stood over Tiananmen Square to declare the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. While he unified the country after years of civil and foreign wars, an estimated 70 million would die as a result of famine and political brutality.Mao’s famous address “let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend” heralded a campaign to promote open debate and tolerance. However, when posters appeared calling for democratic elections, the “Anti-Rightist” persecution was unleashed. Last month, Sport England and a number of partnering charities launched a new campaign aimed at people living with long-term health conditions. We Are Undefeatable, they called it – making a statement on behalf of the millions of people living with these illnesses in the UK.As a member of the long-term ill population myself, it seems about time to share my own story of physical fitness and chronic illness: one I don’t particularly like to think about too much these days, but which accurately reflects my apprehensions about this new scheme.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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