Let’s kick up a stink
If parents were found to have deliberately harmed their child there would be huge public outrage.
Yet thousands of children are being poisoned each day by dangerous pollutants with barely a murmur of protest.
A new study says 38,000 young people a year get asthma because of toxic traffic fumes. Air pollution has also been shown to increase the risk of heart and lung disease, damage unborn babies and impede mental development.
Dirty air on our streets is ruining the health of a generation and it’s a national scandal.
London’s Labour mayor Sadiq Khan, to protests from the Tories, has done the right thing by introducing a low emission zone. Similar plans are in the pipeline for other cities.
Yes, it’s an additional cost for drivers – but if we fail to act we will pay a far heavier price.
Rent & wrong
Britain is in the grip of a housing crisis ...unless you are an MP.
A toxic legacy of the expenses scandal is that some politicians can claim for renting a London property while accruing rent on their own homes bought with taxpayers’ help.
Some are earning tens of thousands a year from tenants in addition to the paper profit they have made from rising house prices.
This is not illegal but it will stick in the craw of the million people on social housing waiting list, the hundreds of thousands trying to get a foot on the property ladder and the 80,000 families living in temporary accommodation.
The longer this loophole stays open the more damage it does to trust in politics.
We repeat our challenge to those MPs who have benefited so handsomely – do the right thing and donate any expenses windfalls to the Exchequer.
Still in the dark
Scientists have taken the first image of a black hole .
Look closely enough you may just be able to detect Theresa May’s Brexit policy.
