Cornwall, and owner fiona has said she will make free lunch bags this half term for any child who would normally get a free school meal. She says shes angry at the governments spending priorities. I know the countrys under pressure, everybodys under pressure but were a wealthy country and if weve got hungry children, i think its obscene, frankly. Under scrutiny, ministers insist they are providing support for low income families, billions extra in welfare and over £60 million via local councils, and congratulate organisations and businesses who are stepping in to help feed children this half term. I think its complementary to what we are doing as a government. We are supportive of that, we support local authorities to do it, thats what the £63 million is there for and its notjust £63 million, it is on top of the hundreds of millions we have put into local authorities to support those most in need. So no u turn, no change in a word . I think we have the package in place so people hav
He had a lot of goals in life but those were then enhanced when he met and married mary todd. She also was very ambitious. She said she wanted to marry a man of good mind and hopes for a Bright Future and to marry a man who would be president. There was something about Abraham Lincoln that she saw the potential and encouraged it. Mary helped to basically showcase what her husband had done and how far he had calm and kind of hinted at where they were headed stating to the world that Abraham Lincoln had made it and he was ready to move on. He next, Alvaro Vargas llosa discusses his look global crossings which looks at some of the reasons people migrate to foreign lands even in situations where they might risk their own lives. Hosted by the Cato Institute in washington d. C. , this is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] welcome everybody to the Cato Institute. I am the director here at cato. Since the beginning of this year immigration has become a burning Public Policy issue in
Who offered a helping hand and a warm smile. Repeatedly, when i was reading a piece in the the wall street journal written by governor jeb bush, i thought of my familys journey out of the ghetto. He said today the sad real city if youre born poor, if youre parents didnt go to college, if you dont know your father, and if english is not spoken at home, then the odds are stacked against you. You are more likely to stay poor today than at any other time since world war ii. What struck me about governor bushs piece was that all except one of his prerequisite for being condemned forest fire poverty applied to me. Fortunately i know my father. But i was born poor. My parents didnt go to college, and english was not and still is not spoken at home. The odds were stacked against me. So like barack obama has been eager to harp on the odds for political purposes, in the narrative he has been pedaling for the four to five years. The Little People at the bottom of the society dont get a fair shake
Motor neurone disease. In france, there are Police Checks and fines for people breaking strict confinement laws. And after Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe, the british woman jailed for spying in iran, is temporarily released from prison. Because of an outbreak of coronavirus, well be speaking live to her husband richard in the next half hour. The government is being urged to do more to help families and workers affected by the coronavirus outbreak, after announcing billions of pounds of help for companies. The chancellor, rishi sunak, made more than £300 billion in loans available to affected firms. But business groups said action had to be taken to pay workers wages, while labour said people struggling with their rent had been ignored. This morning, the government is expected to announce how they plan to protect millions of people who rent their homes. Lets go through some of the measures unveiled by the chancellor yesterday. He announced a three month mortgage holiday for homeowners. Mr s
Within less than seven decades after the British Christian Missionaries introduced the modern allopathic system of medicine to Kashmir, a Srinagar-based doctor, Dr Ghulam Mohuddin – one of the first to have MBBS, moved to England and felt coerced by the devastation wreaked by World War II to settl.