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Day: December 14, 2019

We communicate differently: Melania on Greta row
America, Featured

We communicate differently: Melania on Greta row

    The Trump-vs-Greta Thunberg conflict continued Friday after first lady Melania Trump responded to accusations of anti-bullying hypocrisy by issuing a statement about her husband's tweet attacks on the Swedish climate-activist teenager. Greta Thunberg, 16, who travels the globe giving speeches, isn't the same as her son Barron Trump, a 13-year-old who wants and deserves privacy, she said in the statement, according to The Associated Press. The statement also acknowledged that she and President Donald Trump communicate differently. The first lady was silent this week after the president mocked Thunberg, telling her in a tweet that she should work on her anger management and chill out. He was dismissive of Thunberg after she was named Time's Person of the Year Thursda...
We are the servants now: PM thanks northern voters
Featured, United Kingdom

We are the servants now: PM thanks northern voters

    Boris Johnson has vowed to repay the trust of former Labour supporters whose votes helped deliver him victory in the General Election. The Prime Minister made a symbolic visit to Tony Blair’s old Sedgefield constituency in County Durham which fell to the Tories on Thursday night to pledge his commitment to spreading opportunity across the country. We believe in giving opportunity to everyone, he told a crowd of cheering supporters and newly-elected MPs from the region packed into the local cricket club. We believe that talent is evenly distributed throughout our country, but opportunity is unfairly distributed. We are going to rectify that as a One Nation Conservative government, as a people’s government, that is what we are going to do. Sedgefield was one of a s...
Johnson will be pursue his own agenda for the next five years
Featured, United Kingdom

Johnson will be pursue his own agenda for the next five years

    The most powerful British leader since Tony Blair, Boris Johnson can steamroll Parliament for the next five years in pursuit of his agenda. The same goes for chief aide Dominic Cummings, who will exert greater influence over British national life than ever before. BBC beware and for that matter, Channel 4, civil servants and the Supreme Court. The Conservatives begin a fourth term in office with a staggeringly large majority, beyond their wildest expectations, restoring the party to the dominance it enjoyed in the late 1980s. None of this guarantees easy times ahead, since no previous postwar government has had to grapple with redefining Britain’s place in the world, brokering new trading rules and security co-operation, trying to protect the United Kingdom from th...