All Blocks

Lianne was just 13 when she lost her parents to Aids. Newly orphaned, she had to find a way to keep herself and her younger sister alive. With no money to finish school, unable to find a job and struggling to put food on the table, there was only one option – sex work.Now 24, she knows the dangers in Eswatini, a kingdom in southern Africa once described as the epicentre of the HIV epidemic and a country still struggling with some of the highest infection rates in the world.“Both my parents passed away. Hunger led me to join…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday lamented being the only Republican lawmaker who crossed the aisle earlier that day to join Democrats in an ultimately failed attempt to pass a war powers resolution — to rein in President Donald Trump amid his ongoing war on Iran.Paul explained on MS NOW during an appearance on “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” that there was “an extensive debate” when America was founded about the authorization of military force, and that the founders agreed this should require a majority vote in…

Calls were growing on Thursday for Keir Starmer to face a Parliamentary inquiry for allegedly misleading the Commons about the Peter Mandelson affair.The Prime Minister had already been accused of wrongly assuring MPs that full due process had been followed in the appointment of the Labour grandee as US Ambassador.But now he has been hit by further damaging allegations that he misquoted the mandarin he sacked over the scandal.Sir Keir told Prime Minister's Questions that Sir Olly Robbins had said his decision on whether to…

What is it with supermarkets nowadays? It feels like the very presence of customers doing their weekly shop is a nuisance to the big players.I half expect someone to tap me on the shoulder and ask what I'm doing there, as under pressure staff buzz around fulfilling online orders.They've increasingly stripped out manned tills (no, I'm not self-scanning a whole trolley of items), the quality of produce seems to be doing downhill and don't even think about entering without a loyalty card, unless you want to pay over the…