| No Images? Click here   A no-deal Brexit could see government borrowing spiral to £100bn and take it to levels not seen since the 1960s, a leading economic think tank has warned.The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said following last month’s spending review, government borrowing was on course to top £50bn next year, more than double what the Office for Budget Responsibility was forecasting as recently as March.  Even for a president well-known for his seat-of-the-pants policy decisions, Donald Trump’s plan to allow US forces in Syria to step aside and open the way for a Turkish assault on Kurdish fighters in the country has caused alarm in just about every quarter.Over the course of a few hours on Monday, the president managed to upend his own Middle East policy, blindside foreign allies and, in a rare series of rebukes, prompt Republican allies to speak out against him.  Boris Johnson has ridiculed Extinction Rebellion protestors as annoying “nose-ringed”, “hemp-smelling” “crusties”.In a broadside at the demonstrators who started a fortnight of disruption in central London, the prime minister used a speech praising Margaret Thatcher to make plain his disdain for the group’s tactics.  Amber Rudd, who resigned from Boris Johnson’s cabinet and the Tory Party last month, has branded the PM’s chief aide Dominic Cummings as “angry and desperate”.The former work and pensions secretary said on Tuesday morning she believed the No. 10 source, quoted by The Spectator claiming there were “all sorts of things” the government could do to scupper a Brexit delay, was Johnson’s chief adviser.  When the BBC’s director-general Tony Hall announced he had overturned the ruling about Naga Munchetty last week, the decision was met with a largely positive response, with the corporation having already come under fire for declaring that the BBC Breakfast host had breached their guidelines around impartiality.One person who isn’t happy, though, is former BBC employee Jeremy Clarkson.   When Claire Murdoch started out as a mental health nurse more than 30 years ago, the building where she worked was a Victorian-era asylum – a bricks-and-mortar reminder that for centuries, people with mental illnesses had been locked away, out of sight, out of mind.She’s now the national mental health director for the NHS, but Murdoch vividly remembers the climate around mental health back then. In the early 1980s, society was seeing the very beginnings of a slow-burn revolution. There was talk of moving patients from asylums into homes in the community, she tells HuffPost UK, a concept that was considered “radical” at the time.  It’s hard for anyone living on planet earth not to be aware of climate change and, indeed, the momentum behind action to prevent it. Nearly three-quarters of Britons believe the country is already feeling the effects of climate change and as the summer draws to a close, we’ve seen the hottest July ever around the world.Worryingly, tabloid headlines focus on “Britain basking” in heatwaves, rather than warning us that climate change is already here and will only get worse. This year, so far, seems to have been a tipping point for climate change – both environmentally and in terms of activism. It has taken little over a century for plastic to become one of the biggest threats to life on earth. And for most people, myself included, it happened right under our noses.Whether in our home, workplace, handbag, supermarket, hotel room, gym, you name it, I guarantee you will find some form of plastic there. But it isn’t just in our own personal space that plastic can be found. No, it litters far more of our planet than it has any right to, and is the cause of death to millions of marine creatures each year. In November 2018, I heard her nails catch the carpet. The noise was a gentle, scratchy zip, and I think even then I knew she was dying. Well, at the very least, the pessimist in me knew something was very wrong. I began googling, and the worst hit was degenerative myelopathy (DM). That’s what eventually killed my dog, Gracie, on September 7, 2019.DM is a degenerative disease that affects the spinal cord. It is analogous to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in humans. Initial symptoms include wobbling of the back end and knuckling of the back paws. Then the legs become weak, then paralysed. Then the bladder goes. Then the front legs. Then the respiratory system. The disease is generally known to be painless and terminal.  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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