politics
China, emerging Asia sustaining global economy, says Oxford professor
Scooter drivers in Ho Chi Minh City on November 01, 2016. Thomas Koehler | Photothek | Getty Images Growth in emerging markets has been the linchpin holding up the global economy at a time when advanced countries are threatening to unravel it. That’s the view of former World Bank vice president Ian Goldin, who told …
Speaker John Bercow protests suspension of Parliament in Commons outburst
The Speaker John Bercow has led protests to Parliament being prorogued. Mr Bercow said he would take part in the legal process – but spoke to oppose the suspension before going to the House of Lords. MPs scuffled around the Speaker’s chair and held up signs warning that they were silenced. Mr Bercow gave a …
OBR warns Sajid Javid he risks breaking borrowing rules | Politics
The head of the Treasury spending watchdog has warned Sajid Javid that he is on track to break government borrowing rules after embarking on the biggest annual increase in spending for 15 years. Robert Chote, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), said the chancellor had set a course for the public finances …
‘My pupil was expelled for breaking a teacher’s fingers. I have to help him’ | Society
Monday I spend the morning completing admin for the students I tutor, who have all been expelled from schools and referral units for behavioural problems. After completing weekly reports on them for last week, I plan the week’s lessons, mark some work and fill in my timesheets. As a self-employed tutor working for a local …
GOP Sen. Roy Blunt says Trump needs to ‘step up’ in gun debate
“What (Senate Leader Mitch McConnell) said this week, I think maybe it’s the second time he said this, is we’re not going to vote on bills on the Senate floor that the President is not willing to sign. The President needs to step up here and set some guidelines for what he would do,” Blunt, …
The Guardian view on the world and Brexit: rue Britannia | Editorial | Opinion
The case for Brexit rested largely upon two misapprehensions – or, to put it less kindly, lies. The first was the belief that engaging in a deep and broad partnership, with the necessary compromises and disadvantages that brings alongside all its benefits, was an act of treacherous self-sabotage. The second was a wholly unrealistic assessment …
Mick Jagger slams Trump over environmental policy
“We are in a very difficult situation at the moment, especially in the US, where all the environmental controls that were put in place — that were just about adequate — have been rolled back by the current administration so much that they are being wiped out,” Jagger said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “The …
Dorian still slamming eastern Canada at hurricane force
TORONTO (AP) — The storm that has already walloped the Virgin Islands, Bahamas and North Carolina brought hurricane-force winds to far-eastern Canada on Sunday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people. Dorian hit near the city of Halifax Saturday afternoon, ripping roofs off apartment buildings, toppling a huge construction crane and uprooting trees. …
Trump says Taliban leaders were coming to the US for a Camp David meeting but he canceled it
Trump tweeted that he scrapped the meeting after the Taliban took credit for an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed a dozen people, including an American soldier. “Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the major Taliban leaders and, separately, the President of Afghanistan, were going to secretly meet with me at Camp David on Sunday,” Trump tweeted. …
NOAA disavows National Weather Service tweet that refuted Trump’s claim Dorian was headed toward Alabama
In a statement attributed to an unnamed NOAA spokesperson, the agency said Trump had been given information from August 28 until Monday that Dorian could impact Alabama. “From Wednesday, August 28, through Monday, September 2, the information provided by NOAA and the National Hurricane Center to President Trump and the wider public demonstrated that tropical-storm-force …
