| No Images? Click here   A legal bid to ask judges to force Boris Johnson to send a letter requesting a Brexit extension has been dismissed. Legislation passed last month requires the prime minister to ask for Article 50 to be extended to January 31 if parliament has not approved an exit deal by October 19.   More than 100 people have been arrested the first morning of Extinction Rebellion’s mass protest in London. It comes as the climate change activists attempt to shutdown Westminster for two weeks in a bid to force government departments to outline their plans to tackle the climate emergency.   The American businesswoman at the centre of a scandal surrounding the use of public money has refused to answer questions about the nature of her relationship with Boris Johnson. Jennifer Arcuri appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Monday morning for her first televised UK interview, during which she declined to give details on whether or not she had been involved in an “intimate relationship” with the prime minister during his time as the mayor of London.   The government’s response to tackling extremism is “inadequate” and is in need of a complete transformation, a new report states. Sara Khan, leader of the Commission for Countering Extremism, called for better protection for victims and support for those working to tackle extremism.   2019 was the summer that tipped the scales on how we talk about our climate. As temperatures smashed through record after record, the warnings came too - with the UN stating that the world needed to increase its efforts between three and five-fold to stand a chance of containing climate change.    More than eight in 10 people have experienced early signs of poor mental health in the past year, including anxiety, stress, low mood or sleep troubles, according to a new survey by Public Health England (PHE). While these may be natural responses to life’s challenges, they can become more serious if people don’t take action – and many wait too long to do this.   On Friday, the prime minister was forced in a formal submission to a Scottish court to admit that he would comply with the Benn Act and request an extension to UK membership of the EU if there is no deal (or no parliamentary agreement to no-deal) by 19 October. The Mail on Sunday suggested this only came after a mega bust-up with his law officers including the attorney general Geoffrey Cox – who presumably told him that they could not condone law breaking. So far, so good. All very transparent and above board. But it was accompanied at the same time by a breathless tweet thread by the BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg reporting “senior No.10 sources” clarifying that message. Yes, the government would comply with the “narrow” provisions of the Benn Act – but the source went on to suggest that shadowy MPs were behind the act and that the government had ways of undermining it. And thus number 10 perpetuated the prime ministerial paradox: that Boris Johnson will comply with the Benn Act and yet still leave the EU “do or die”, deal or no deal, on 31 October.  My husband, Dave, passed away unexpectedly at age 40 of cardiac issues. There were exactly zero symptoms and no warning signs, no foreshadowing of any sort. It was a sunny, brisk, autumn Sunday. He and our son, Jude, played hide-and-seek, then Jude scampered upstairs in his little sock feet for a nap. As I read Dr. Seuss to him in preparation for a restful afternoon sleep, life and death collided.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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