Not the Only One

Government ministers have formally apologised and repaid £7,000 to a 93-year-old woman whom they held responsible for running up benefits overpayment debts even though they were told she had dementia and was unable to manage her affairs. The case, which the minister for disability, Mims Davies, admitted was “disturbing”, was brought to light by the Guardian as part of its investigation into carer’s allowance overpayments.

Temperatures in India, like the rest of the world, have been rising due to Climate Change. India is ranked 4th among the list of countries most affected by climate change in 2015. This is the 3rd straight year of severe heatwaves in India and the 6th in the last 10 years (see table below). Temp. rises are also causing Himalayan glaciers to retreat, threatening the flow rate of major rivers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_...

At a house in the remote Kimberley, a woman waves her phone in the air for hours trying to get a signal to pay a bill. A man has his bank account shut down due to a dodgy phone line which raises suspicions about scammers. And at a picturesque farm, families faced with sudden, shocking deaths are unable to phone an ambulance. These scenes are playing out in regional Australia, where residents unable to access phone and internet services struggle to keep up with a world moving rapidly online...

The power imbalance is between service providers & the state. Saying things are equal doesn’t make it so. The power imbalance between services & community arises in relation to governance; corporations law & compliance creates tension with and is at odds with “community control”. https://t.co/qmqdnksGRf

Gary McKee had been aiming to reach the target for charity, having run 26.2 miles every day this year.

When seven Zimbabweans announced on October 4 that they were suing the Church of England for enabling the brutal abuse they suffered at the hands of John Smyth, a leading figure in its evangelical movement, their action was not only about justice for the past. It was an indictment of an institution that has never reckoned with the violence it spread under the banner of faith.

Labour in Britain and the SPD in Germany have the same problem. The parties have moved further and further to the corporate right, abandoning the actual support of their base.