efficient. safe. protected. controlled. a utopian city-state run like a multinational company. welcome to singapore incorporated. this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder shchlt ah la la la la sha la la la singapore. one could be forgiven for thinking it s a giant, ultramodern shopping mall. an interconnected, fully wired, air-conditioned nanny state, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. and those things are kind of true, especially if you read the papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think, or you could be forgiven for thinking, gee, maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain t my sy
also this hour. here, opposition parties demand an explaination from borisjohnson, after he met with the senior civil servant, sue gray, ahead of the publication of her report into lockdown parties at downing street. two people have been taken to hospital after a stand collapsed during a trooping the colour rehearsal in central london. pharmacists have been given temporary power to make swaps to women s hormone replacement therapy prescriptions, amid ongoing shortages. hello and welcome to bbc news. australia s general election has been won by the labor party. votes are stil being counted but labor does appear to have fallen short of an overall majority so it s unclear whether the party s leader, anthony albanese, will seek to form a coalition or rule as a minority government. however, australia s next prime minister, has just delivered his first speech at labor s party headquarters to thunderous applause and cheers let s have a listen. i begin by acknowledging the tradit
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the highest it s been in 15 years. but last month, the bank s rate setting committee narrowly voted to keep it unchanged. and it s widely expected to do the same again today as evidence grows of the strain that high borrowing costs are putting on the economy and the housing market. here s our cost of living correspondent colletta smith. this is my monthly dining out, put that in as a reminder. ebony is doing all the right things. ebony is doing all the right thins. , ., , ., ., things. this month they have a savin: things. this month they have a saving goals things. this month they have a saving goals towards things. this month they have a saving goals towards my - things. this month they have a i saving goals towards my house buying savings. she saving goals towards my house buying savings- buying savings. she and her artner buying savings. she and her partner saving buying savings. she and her partner saving carefully - partner saving carefully putting cash into phys