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EU LEADERS FOCUSING ON MIGRATION AND ENLARGEMENT Today the European Union’s 27 national leaders held a roundtable in the framework of an informal meeting in Granada, Spain, to look for ways to avoid a new migration crisis and address a longer-term existential challenge of bringing into their bloc new countries, potentially as big and troubled as Ukraine. The 27 are also expected to discuss the strategic path for the EU after years marred by crises, from the COVID pandemic to Russia’s war in Ukraine to the 2022 energy crunch, and marked by man-made over-hyped challenges including climate change and economic…

A MAN IS A MAN AND A WOMAN IS A WOMAN – Its just common sense says the Prime Minister Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has appeared to shift closer to “common sense” with an attack on “virtue signalling” speaking against vague language being used in the NHS and for once a clear definition of the sexes. The Prime Minister used his address to the Conservative Party conference to criticise a lack of “common sense” in the public sector and claimed it should be clear in the NHS when doctors are talking to men or women. He told his party members:…

RENTS HIT RECORD HIGH AS DEMAND MORE THAN TRIPLES In London the average rent is £2,627 a 12.1% jump over the year Rents have reached a new record high once again with monthly bills outside London averaging at more than £1,200, according to Rightmove. According to new figures from Rightmove, the average billed rent for a home in Britain (outside London) rose to a record £1,278 per month between July and September.  That’s a 10% rise from this time last year. Within the capital, the average asking rent also reached an eye-watering £2,627 per month – a 12.1% jump over…

The UK’s communications regulator has referred the cloud computing market to the competition watchdog for a formal investigation after a study raised concerns about industry leaders Amazon and Microsoft. Ofcom has asked the Competition and Markets Authority to launch an inquiry, saying it is “particularly concerned about the position of the market leaders Amazon and Microsoft”. Cloud computing, or the delivery of IT services such as data storage and computing power over the internet with a pay-as-you-go pricing structure, is widely used by businesses and has emerged as a major piece of infrastructure in the development of the next generation of artificial intelligence…

A Wisconsin school district’s insistence on using different names and pronouns for students claiming to be of another gender violates the rights of parents, a judge ruled on Oct. 3. The Kettle Moraine School District “went against the parents’ wishes on how to medically treat their child,” Waukesha County Judge Michael Maxwell wrote in his ruling (pdf). “This directly implicates an infringement against the parental autonomy right to direct the care for their child.” Two sets of parents sued the district, including one set whose daughter attended a middle school in the district. The girl’s parents initially aligned with the…

Two years ago Sean Longstaff looked to be on his way out at Newcastle and seemed destined for a lower-division future, while Dan Burn could not be certain of a first-team place at Brighton. Few crystal-ball gazers would have predicted that particularly unlikely pair not merely joining Miguel Almirón and Fabian Schär in scoring against Paris Saint-Germain here but utterly eclipsing Kylian Mbappé and friends as Newcastle’s first home Champions League game for 20 years concluded amid unbridled geordie joy. When PSG trained at St James’ Park on Tuesday night, Mbappé quickly demanded an emergency pair of gloves. They were discarded here…

No one in the Cabinet Office “took the time to understand the science” on two-metre social distancing, according to a diary entry of Britain’s chief scientific advisor at the time which has been submitted as evidence to the ongoing COVID Inquiry. In a hearing at the inquiry on Tuesday, lead counsel for the inquiry Hugo Keith, KC quoted from the diary of former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance, in which he said one Cabinet Office document had been made up of “cherry-picked” guidance. In the diary Sir Patrick wrote, “Number 10 chaos as usual.” “On Friday, the two-metre rule…

FUTURE OF NORTHERN LEG OF HS2 SET TO BE DECIDED Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to reveal the future of the northern section of a high-speed rail project in his concluding speech at the Conservative Party conference today. The conference has been largely overshadowed by a row over the future of HS2. A source close to the project said the announcement would most probably say the train line would go to Euston station in London but the construction of the northern section, which the government has already spent 2.3 billion pounds on, would be mothballed. Sunak will say the…

RAIL LINES ARE AFFECTED BY STRIKES BUT TUBE ACTION CALLED OFF – RMT we’ve managed to save jobs, protect our members and secured protection of earnings Thousands of rail workers and train drivers are going on strike this month – with an overtime ban which started on Monday and mass disruption expected today. But planned industrial action by London Underground workers has been cancelled, it was announced earlier today. RMT (the Rail, Maritime and Transport union) and ASLEF (The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen) members are striking in an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions. ASLEF represents drivers,…

MANCHESTER UNITED LOSE 3-2 TO GALATASARAY AT OLD TRAFFORD – United continue their poor start to the season Manchester United’s miserable season continued as they slumped to a 3-2 defeat at home to Galatasaray to leave them bottom of Champions League Group A. Looking to put a fourth Premier League defeat of the season against Crystal Palace on Saturday behind them, United flew out of the traps in the Manchester rain, racing into a 17th-minute lead through Denmark striker Rasmus Hojlund. Their advantage lasted less than six minutes however, as Wilfried Zaha, playing against his former club, scooped home the…