| No Images? Click here   Families on housing benefit are priced out of almost all homes to rent in Britain, according to new research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and published by HuffPost UK.As part of a major investigation into housing and new homelessness laws, the Bureau has found that councils across the country have increasingly been encouraging people facing or experiencing homelessness to rent privately, rather than wait for a council house.  Rory Stewart is going to stand as an independent candidate to be Mayor of London, he has announced.It comes just hours after he quit the Conservative Party on Friday.  The story behind why Democrats are moving forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is simple.The president repeatedly pressured a foreign government to meddle in the 2020 US election to help him win. It’s all there in the White House summary of Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president. It’s corroborated by the subsequent whistleblower complaint. And Trump keeps telling other countries to do it, too, on live television.  A British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran has taken the heart-breaking decision to send her daughter to the UK to start school.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been visited in prison by five-year-old Gabriella at least once a week for the past three years.  Greta Thunberg is probably one of very few teenagers who knows what it’s like to be criticised by the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries, but she doesn’t seem to be short on comebacks.Speaking at an energy forum on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he did not share the excitement surrounding the teen climate activist’s impassioned address at the United Nations Climate Action Summit last month, in which she deplored world leaders for not doing enough to combat climate change.   By the age of 10, Chris Panikkou had seen it all. “I’d experienced a lot of violence,” he tells me. “I’d seen sex, money, drugs, guns.”Chris grew up in Camden, London, in what he describes as a very dysfunctional and violent setting. He worked in his dad’s café, before and after school, from the age of seven years old.  On Thursday a ruling from the High Court in Belfast has confirmed what campaigners, healthcare providers, and the women of Northern Ireland have known for years – that the country’s archaic, cruel abortion law is in breach of the UK’s human rights commitments.This is a hard-won victory. Sarah Ewart is a young mother who had to travel to England for an abortion after receiving the devastating diagnosis that her baby would not survive outside the womb. Sarah has spent years in and out of court in order to challenge the near-total abortion ban which does not permit abortion in cases of fatal foetal anomaly. In 1984 I was a senior in college, and I went to see the movie The Right Stuff. And a couple of things really struck me in that movie. The first was the view out the window of John Glenn’s spaceship – the view of the Earth, how beautiful it was on the big screen. I wanted to see that view. And secondly, the camaraderie between the original seven astronauts depicted in that movie – how they were good friends, how they stuck up for each other, how they would never let each other down. I wanted to be part of an organisation like that.And it rekindled a boyhood dream that had gone dormant over the years. That dream was to grow up to be an astronaut. And I just could not ignore this dream. I had to pursue it. So I decided I wanted to go to graduate school, and I was lucky enough to get accepted to MIT. A few mornings ago, as I laced up my sneakers for my morning run, it dawned on me that I had forgotten to charge my headphones. NBD, I thought, I’ll just meditate or whatever it is health-conscious people do when they’re trying not to throw up their Clif bar mid-run in a public park.I was no more than four blocks into my run when I heard the first one: “BEAUTIFUL TATTOOS, BABY!”  New to this email? You can sign up here.©2019 Oath (UK) | Midcity Place, 71, High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA |
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