Panicking PM will claim he wants to cut UK’s bloated welfare bill — just days after Budget lavished £16bn on handouts

Panicking PM will claim he wants to cut UK’s bloated welfare bill — just days after Budget lavished £16bn on handouts

PM in a panic  SIR Keir Starmer will today claim he still wants to do something about the bloated welfare bill — just five days after his Chancellor lavished an extra £16billion on state handouts.  The Prime Minister has been panicked by the overwhelming negative response to the “Benefits Street” Budget.  A staggering 95 per cent of...

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher

Reciting the names of the dead: how Australia’s response to HIV/Aids was emotionally – and politically – powerful | Leigh Boucher

Researchers now describe it as both historical phenomenon and public health model. Its success was remarkable Past/Present is a column which places current events in historical context Aids has always been laden with political and emotional volatilities. The possibility of blood or sex based transmission combined with its first emergence among marginalised and criminalised populations created a potent mix of primal terror and terrifying prejudice. It can sometimes be difficult to remember just how potently misinformation, fear and outright hostility framed the knowledge and experience of Aids in the first decade or so of the pandemic. In this period, a positive result on an HIV test was a terminal diagnosis and medical knowledge about transmission and treatment was still cloudy. Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

Ghastly, incompetent Rachel Reeves must resign NOW after dog’s breakfast Budget – but there’s one good thing to do first

Ghastly, incompetent Rachel Reeves must resign NOW after dog’s breakfast Budget – but there’s one good thing to do first

FROM where I’m sitting, what happened was this.   The Chancellor of the Exchequer lied about how much money she needed to save.   And she took money from you. And she did that in order to save her own staggeringly useless career. And that of her boss, Sir Keir Starmer.  What she did was a deceit against the voter and a betrayal of...

How Prem stars are being targeted by pro burglars who sell their loot to Gucci Gang mob led by ‘Mr Flashy’

How Prem stars are being targeted by pro burglars who sell their loot to Gucci Gang mob led by ‘Mr Flashy’

PREMIER League stars including Jack Grealish are being targeted by professional burglars who sell their loot to criminals known as The Gucci Gang. England’s Grealish and fiancée Sasha Attwood had £1million of watches and jewellery nicked from their Cheshire mansion. Underworld contacts have told The Sun how criminals who used to target banks and cash...