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• Amber Rudd Becomes Latest Victim Of Notorious Email Hoaxer

  09-08-2017 21:31
  
  Amber Rudd has apparently fallen victim to a notorious email hoaxer known for pranks hoodwinking US President Donald Trump’s advisors and the Bank of England governor. 
  The Home Secretary, who said last week that “real people” do not want secure communications, fell for the hoaxer who pretended to be a senior Downing Street aide.
  The email prankster, known as Sinon Reborn, a 39-year-old website designer from south Manchester, told the Guardian: “I managed to speak t
  
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• Boris Johnson should be jailed over Brexit claims, says ex-David Davis aide

  09-08-2017 21:21
  In series of tweets, James Chapman asks ministers hard questions about leaving EU and calls for new party to avoid ‘catastrophe’The former chief of staff to David Davis has said Brexit is a catastrophe, and suggested that Boris Johnson and other leading Brexit campaigners should be jailed for claiming there would be an extra £350m a week for the NHS after the UK left the European Union.James Chapman, a former special adviser who now works for a public relations firm, expressed
  
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• Donald Trump Has ‘Made The World Safer’, Stephen Miller Claims, Despite Extraordinary Threat To North Korea

  09-08-2017 20:06
  
  Donald Trump has made Earth “a safer place”, his senior advisor Stephen Miller has claimed, just hours after the US President warned North Korea it faces “fire and fury like the world has never seen”.
  Speaking to former Ukip leader turned LBC radio presenter Nigel Farage on Wednesday, Miller said Trump’s response to the newly nuclear-armed dictatorship had brought countries together.“You see the passage of the UN Securi
  
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• SNP Minister Confirms Holyrood Still Minded To Block Brexit Bill After Talks

  09-08-2017 19:58
  
  The SNP-led Scottish Government will not give the Brexit Bill its blessing, despite high-level talks today, branding it a “Westminster power grab” that is “unworkable”.
  After a meeting between First Secretary Damian Green and Scotland’s Brexit Minister Mike Russell, the SNP remains vehemently opposed to the legislation. 
  It is unknown if a vote against in the Scottish Parliament, which is dominated by the SNP, could derail Brexit but it presents a huge pro
  
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• No agreement in latest Scots-UK Brexit powers talks

  09-08-2017 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Scottish ministers say they still cannot back Brexit legislation after talks with UK counterparts end without agreement.
  
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• BoE to tighten hiring policy after Charlotte Hogg scandal

  09-08-2017 19:19
  Call for robust conflict-of-interest scrutiny before making senior appointments
  
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• David Davis defends Brexit team gender balance

  09-08-2017 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The Brexit secretary says 40% of his team in the most recent round of talks were women.
  
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• Donald Trump's Former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort Had Home Searched By FBI Over Russia Probe

  09-08-2017 17:46
  
  The FBI searched the home of Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the election, his spokesman said.
  ABC News reported the search warrant was executed on Paul Manafort’s Virginia home within the last two weeks and he reportedly had no advance warning. 
  His spokesman told the broadcaster: “FBI agents executed a search warrant at one of Mr Manafort’s residences. Mr Manafort has consistently cooperated with law enf
  
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• Government Ministers Have Been Dodging Questions About Grenfell Tower

  09-08-2017 17:37
  
  Government ministers sidestepped questions about the Grenfell Tower disaster using “generic stock responses”. 
  Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts tabled ten parliamentary questions about how authorities responded to the fire, which has claimed the lives of at least 80 people.
  Each got exactly the same response from Housing Minister Alok Sharma, saying the query was “for the public inquiry to consider”.A letter she also wrote to Communities Secretary Sajid Javid, prob
  
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• Jean-Claude Juncker's 25,000 euro 'air taxi' revealed

  09-08-2017 17:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Details of European Commissioners' travel and accommodation expenses are published by campaigners.
  
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• Number Of Potential Terrorists Flagged To Prevent Programme Has Doubled Since Flurry Of UK Attacks

  09-08-2017 17:04
  
  The number of potential extremists flagged up by members of the public has doubled since Britain was hit by a flurry of terror attacks. 
  Police received around 200 referrals to the government’s anti-terror Prevent programme from April to the end of July - about double the number recorded in the previous four months.  
  The rise in tip-offs coincides with the spate of terrorist incidents that began with the Westminster atrocity on March 22, followed by attacks in Manchester, London
  
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• Donald Trump's Positive News 'Propaganda Document' - The Nuclear Issue

  09-08-2017 16:42
  
  On Tuesday details of the most Donald Trump thing in the Donald Trump White House emerged.
  According to Vice News, twice a day the President is sent dossier stuffed with positive news about him, fawning tweets and pictures of him looking powerful.
  The article reads:One White House official said the only feedback the White House communications shop, which prepares the folder, has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more fucking positive.”That’s why some in the Wh
  
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• UK spends higher share of GDP on healthcare than EU and OECD

  09-08-2017 16:09
  Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation say percentage bigger than previously thought
  
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• Welsh language commissioner role to be scrapped

  09-08-2017 15:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Ministers are to take over decisions on language rules in a shake-up that has worried campaigners.
  
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• Amber Rudd defends police stop and search powers

  09-08-2017 14:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Amber Rudd backs police powers to "confront" a rise in acid attacks.
  
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• Could North Korea Actually Bomb Guam? A Sane Guide To Kim Jong-un And Donald Trump's Nuclear Tussle

  09-08-2017 14:19
  
  No doubt if you’ve seen the news today or ventured onto social media you’ll have noticed the world appears to be slightly more... apocalyptic today.
  Fraught fears of a fiery and agonising death as the nuclear tensions between North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and President Trump are at the forefront of many people’s minds - albeit in a surprisingly upbeat manner.If we all die in a nuclear war before we find out how Game of Thrones ends I'll be very annoyed. #NorthKorea&mdash
  
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• Tories Stall On Manifesto Pledge To Help Victims Of Domestic Violence

  09-08-2017 13:02
  
  Victims of domestic violence could face a longer wait for the housing help they were promised by the government. 
  The Tories set out a new, more robust approach to tackling domestic abuse in their general election manifesto earlier this year, which included a pledge to help those who live in social housing and are fleeing dangerous situations transfer their lifetime tenancy from property to another. 
  But in response to a written question from Labour MP Kate Hollern, who asked when loc
  
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• 'We're going to run out of money in the afternoon'

  09-08-2017 12:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Alistair Darling on the worst moment of the financial crash
  
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• Sebastian Gorka's MSNBC And Fox Interviews Are The Opposite Of Deescalation

  09-08-2017 12:16
  
  Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it made any more threats to the US - although looking at his body language he didn’t seem to sure...  Good Lord, here's the video of Trump threatening N Korea.
  We're so screwed.pic.twitter.com/dT12LllJmH— Holly O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) August 8, 2017
  One person who did seem more confident in his opinions was the President’s Deputy Assistant, Sebasti
  
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• Amber Rudd Backs Use Of Controversial Stop And Search Powers To Tackle Acid Attacks

  09-08-2017 11:47
  
  Amber Rudd has reignited debate over the use of stop and search powers after backing calls for officers to use them to “confront” a recent rise in acid attacks and knife crime. 
  The controversial practice has been criticised in the past over claims of racial profiling, with official figures last year revealing that black people were more than six times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people. 
  Under former Home Secretary Theresa May, us
  
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• Channel 4's latest poverty porn makes entertainment out of a crisis

  09-08-2017 11:30
  
  New property show normalises the idea of the deserving and undeserving poor
  
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• Road to purgatory: Indefinite detention in the UK

  09-08-2017 11:07
  
  If we want to call ourselves a civilised country, it's time to put an end to indefinite detention
  
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• North Korea Says It Is Considering Launching A Missile Strike On Guam

  09-08-2017 09:15
  
  North Korea has said it is considering carrying out missile strikes on the US island territory of Guam. 
  The announcement, made by the North Korean army this morning, comes just hours after Donald Trump said the country would be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it made any more threats to the US.
  According to the Associated Press, North Korea is studying a plan to create an “enveloping fire” around Guam with medium to long-range missiles. Th
  
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• Donald Trump Evangelical Adviser: God Is Totally Cool With Nuking North Korea

  09-08-2017 09:04
  
  A right-wing pastor who serves on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board claims God has given the president “full power” to launch an attack on North Korea.  
  Robert Jeffress, head of the First Baptist Dallas megachurch, told CBN on Tuesday that a biblical passage in Romans allows rulers to use “whatever means necessary ― including war ― to stop evil.”
  He said:“In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority t
  
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• Credit Crunch Anniversary: Why Pay Is A 'Long Way' From Recovering And How Brexit Is Making It Worse

  09-08-2017 08:25
  
  Firefighter Mark Hunt has seen his pay stagnate, his National Insurance and pension contributions rise and the cost of nearly everything in his life rise even further in the decade since the financial crisis began. It’s forced him to make drastic lifestyle changes.
  “I don’t drink anymore and one of the factors is because of the cost of socialising,” Hunt, a 52-year-old who works in Plymouth says. “I don’t take my kids to the pictures. It’s too ridiculous
  
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• Credit Crunch Anniversary: Why British Pay Is A 'Long Way' From Recovering And How Brexit Is Making It Worse

  09-08-2017 08:25
  
  Firefighter Mark Hunt has seen his pay stagnate, his National Insurance and pension contributions rise and the cost of nearly everything in his life rise even further in the decade since the financial crisis began. It’s forced him to make drastic lifestyle changes.
  “I don’t drink anymore and one of the factors is because of the cost of socialising,” Hunt, a 52-year-old who works in Plymouth says. “I don’t take my kids to the pictures. It’s too ridiculous
  
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• Labour Europhiles raise pressure to change Brexit stance

  09-08-2017 06:00
  MPs back calls to stay in single market after shift in trade union mood
  
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• Darling: 'Alarm bells ringing' for UK economy

  09-08-2017 03:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The ex-chancellor warns of growing risks to the economy, a decade on from the start of the financial crisis.
  
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• Students at top universities snub survey in tuition fees protest

  09-08-2017 01:04
  Oxford and Cambridge missing from results of audit that determines rise in charges
  
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