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Top stories of the week 13 October

A big Brexit news week this week. Boris Johnson has been all over the place. After the European Union dismantled his plan point-by-point but a last minute meeting has potentially thrown the whole situation on the head. In what is being called 48 hours of tunnel talks, negotiations are re-opening. Next week and the week after will be more important as all things now secret are revealed. High among them is that Northern Ireland will be the price to pay for Brexit.

Earlier in the week Boris Johnson was called a traitor.

Politics

More bad news for Boris Johnson this week as the stories about his relationship with a pole-dancer refuse to go away. As the Daily Mail so aptly put it – Boris Johnson’s ‘technology advisor’ Jennifer Arcuri ‘loudly and proudly boasted of “Boris bruises” on her thighs after romp with him’, her friend from the time Milo Yiannopoulos claims

Society

The threat of Right Wing Terrorism remains at Red alert in the UK. This week the Press found that ‘a reckless Tory party is resorting to pantomime authoritarianism’ while the ‘Far right poses as protectors of women to target Muslims, official extremism report finds’.

Middle East

Donald Trump withdrew US forces from Syria leaving the Kurds at the mercy of Turkey. As soon as Tump issued the orders, Turkish troops and armoured vehicles began massing on the border with Syria. Hours after the last US forces left Turkey launched airstrikes killing civilians including women and children. The Kurds believe they have been betrayed and the consequences of what Trump hs done will lead to the return of ISIS

Environment

This week saw the launch of more Extinction Rebellion civil unrest around the world. Fake blood was sprayed on to the bull statue in New York and in London fake blood was sprayed onto the Treasury. This began a week of climate action including taking London City Airport in the same style as the King Kong protestors. The police have clamped down hard on the climate activists making more than 1300 protests in the first week of protests alone.

Boris Johnson was in the news yet again for saying the Extinction Rebellion were crusties and that Margaret Thatcher was greener that Greta Thunberg. Is that so, Mr Johnson.

Stories of the week 24 March

Brexit

Marches, deadlines and political coups. What’s not to like about Brexit this week?

A million people marched in London to protest against Brexit. And, in one of our favourites headlines of the week, whilst a million turned out to protest against Brexit, Nigel Farage addressed a crowd of 200 pro-Brexiters. Bit of a difference in turn out there. As if this wasn’t enough to demonstrate anti-Brexit feeling sweeping the country, nearly 5 million people have signed an online petition demanding that Article 50 be revoked Looks like Brexiteers are the anti-democratic movement now in the UK.

Theresa May has had a big week. Firstly, she was told to stop bullying Parliament and behaving like a dictator. There is strong precedent for stopping Governments repeatedly putting the same thing before MPs until they vote it through. May was told in no uncertain terms that she could not simply return with the same deal to Parliament and make them vote again and again.

This all may be academic as the Tories say enough is enough. There are various plots sweeping the party to out May and replace here with various contenders, depending on which newspaper you are. A divided country, a divided party and plenty of misery for the UK ahead.

Looking forward to what’s to come next week. Where Brexit stops, nobody knows.

Society