Week in the UK. Good or bad

On Friday, web users discussed that Liz Truss been paid £15,770 an hour for second jobs .  Meanwhile, MPs with second jobs have an average wage of £233 per hour, Sky News can reveal. The typical rate for MPs is 17 times the national average - and over 22 higher than the minimum hourly wage. The highest hourly rate for a current MP goes to Liz Truss, who got £15,770 per hour. Ms Truss's most lucrative work since leaving Number 10 has been a speech in Taiwan. She was paid at a rate of £20,000 per hour - nearly 1,500 times the UK average hourly wage - for her insights into global diplomacy. Even higher than Ms Truss is Boris Johnson, who resigned as an MP last month. His hourly rate comes in at £21,822, but having left parliament, he is free to work without having to publicly record his earnings. "I have to work for a whole year for roughly the same money as that useless turd gets in an hour..." "Really makes you curious, at what point would a pay like that be not c...

 On Thursday, a transgender activist and convicted attempted murderer told a police officer 'trans rights are human rights' as she is handcuffed and arrested after telling a cheering crowd at a Trans Pride rally to 'punch TERFs in the face'. Sarah Jane Baker, whose spent 30 years in jail for kidnap and then the attempted murder of a fellow prisoner, provoked outrage over  her inflammatory comments on Saturday against feminists  who are critical of trans ideology.  She told fellow activists: 'I was gonna come here and be really fluffy and be really nice and say yeah be really lovely and queer and gay... Nah, if you see a TERF, punch them in the f****** face.'    That was a rear time when Redditors approved the police action. "Wow, not often that the police arrest a far left type for incitement to violence / hate speech! But seems like the correct decision given, for example, it would be pretty henious to say "punch trans people in the face...

On Wednesday, Britons learned that they could be asked to house Afghans as thousands face hotel evictions . Ministers are considering launching a “Homes for Afghans” scheme following a similar government-funded plan for Ukrainians. As the government sought to fight off Conservative rebellions over the illegal migration bill, the immigration minister, Robert Jenrick, said it could ask members of the UK public to open their homes to people coming from Afghanistan under official routes. It is understood that Jenrick, Michael Gove, the housing secretary, and the veterans minister, Johnny Mercer, have recently met to discuss how to house thousands of Afghans who are due to be evicted from hotels in August. Theresa May and Iain Duncan Smith are understood to be planning to back Lords amendments to the illegal migration bill to stop the deportation of modern slavery victims. Other MPs are considering rebelling because the government’s amendments have not placed a statutory limit ...

On Tuesday, the Daily Mail informed us that Charles believes small farmers are the 'backbone of Britain' . And he will not desert them now that he is King. There was a faintly wistful edge to the celebrations a few days ago as the King was welcomed back to what is, in one sense, his home town. After all, if it wasn’t for him, this place wouldn’t exist. Up until the 1990s, Poundbury, in Dorset, was a patch of farmland, owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The then Prince of Wales set about turning it into his vision of a modern town built on traditional lines. Modernist architects and town planners scoffed that it was twee, outdated and doomed to failure.  Nearly 30 years later, it is thriving and expanding for the simple reason that people love living in a tidy, pretty town which looks like a Georgian film set, has more than 200 businesses, 2,500 jobs, 5,000 residents, a good school and neither a yellow line nor a traffic warden. Yet, the comments under that sugary article ...

On Monday, it turned out that a UK government regulator has failed to publish a key survey of oil and chemical spills in British seas for three years because the expert who compiled it retired . The body responsible for pollution in UK waters, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA), used to publish an annual survey of all spills of “hazardous and noxious substances” into the sea, by boats and the oil industry. As well as making this data available to the public, the MCA says the survey helps its counter pollution team do its job. Spills of oil and chemicals at sea have the potential to kill wildlife, destroy habitats and contaminate beaches. But the report – which was compiled by the expert Advisory Council on Protection of the Sea (ACOPS) for the previous 40 years – has not been published since 2020, with the most recent available data from 2017.  In response to a freedom of information (FOI) request by The Ferret asking for new data, the MCA said the gap in reporting...

On Sunday, there was a mournful news that a second eight-year-old girl has died after a car crashed into a primary school in southwest London . Sixteen people were treated at the scene and 12 were taken to hospital following the incident at The Study Preparatory School in Camp Road, Wimbledon, on Thursday. The girl has been named by police as Nuria Sajjad. In a statement, her family said: "It is with profound sorrow that we announce the passing of our beloved Nuria on Sunday, 9 July 2023. "Nuria was the light of our lives. She embodied joy, kindness and generosity and she was loved by all around her. "We would like to thank the efforts of the emergency services, all the extraordinary staff at St George's Hospital, the parents of Nuria's class fellows and staff of the Study Prep for all they have done to ease Nuria's journey. "We request that our privacy is respected at this difficult time." It was extremely sad news. Brits, however,had a lot o...

On Sunday, a study has found that p eople in the UK are less likely to survive treatable conditions, such as breast cancer and stroke, than those in other rich nations; comedian Ben Elton launched an astonishing attack on Rishi Sunak on the BBC; and the Mirror correspondents found the mountain of dumped Covid PPE blighting this beauty spot includes batches that helped a couple rake in an ­estimated £1.9billion of taxpayer cash. Learn more here On Monday, Brits learned about plans of closure most UK railway station ticket offices to start ‘in weeks’; a Labour frontbencher has triggered furious row as Rishi Sunak accused of weaponising trans debate to win votes; and the Home Office told that government scheme to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost £169,000 per person. Learn more here . On  Tuesday, the Evening Standard reported that strikes by nurses to end as ballot on more action fails to meet legal threshold; we've got to know that Boris Johnson’s Daily Mail job was ‘cl...