Stories of the week 14 October
This week’s Brexit was all about movement and lack of movement.
The M26 may well become the ‘road to nowhere’ in the event of a no-deal Brexit. At least that’s what the government plans as they undertook secretive studies in night closures this week.
On the other hand, Nicola Sturgeon believes that Scotland is firmly on the move with talk of the SNP backing a second referendum on top of another Independence vote.
Much like a truck on the M26, Arlene Foster and the DUP are going nowhere over the Northern Irish border issue. They threatened to bring down the government if they didn’t like the final deal. Now there’s talk of May either dumping the DUP to get her deal through or paying them millions more to ensure their support.
This week was grim for the Conservatives on the domestic front.
Despite May promising the end of austerity, Universal Credit has been found to be a catastrophic mistake. Warnings of riots when the system is rolled out similar to the Poll Tax were made by politicians from all sides. To make matters worse, Esther McVey admitted people would be worse off under the new system. To complete the bleak picture it was also revealed that McVey had made charities sign gagging orders to stop them talking about the failure.
The Army has launched an investigation after videos and photos emerged of far right figurehead, Tommy Robinson, posing with British soldiers in uniform.
In more ‘shocking’ news, Banksy has been voted more popular than the Queen.
A UN report this week had a massive impact around the world. We have 12 short years to halve global emissions or face a bleak future. Time is running out and we have to move fast or face potentially life-ending consequences.
Damaging his ‘green credentials’, Michael Gove did not attend the Climate Change Summit day after the UN report.
More bad news for the Government after they were accused of changing the long-held British approach to the death penalty in order to appease Donald Trump.
Saudi Arabia have been accused of the torturing and killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi as the world considers sanctions.
There was a bumper crop of stories in our Technology section this week.
In a world first, MPs invited a robot to give evidence on the subject of AI. The robot will be the first ‘non-human’ to appear before the UK Parliament.
In the US, the first robot farm replaces humans with intelligent machines.
And finally, an ‘alien base’ has been found Google tools.
