Excessive furlough extension could ‘choke off’ growth, IFS says

Tax rises look ‘more likely than ever’ in future years as the Government’s spending splurge amid the pandemic rolls on, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned. The IFS said Chancellor Rishi Sunak is likely to need to raise around £60billion via taxes over the coming years.  But, with Britain’s economy facing an ‘extraordinarily’ uncertain … Read more

Knife-wielding woman, 28, slices shopper’s neck and tries to choke another in a Swiss store

Knife-wielding woman, 28, slices a female shopper’s neck and tries to choke another in a Swiss department store before being overpowered by customers as cops probe ‘terror motive’ 28-year-old woman shouted ‘ISIS-style’ slogans, according to eyewitnesses She first tried to choke one woman before slicing another in the neck with blade Lugano citizens wrestled her … Read more

Moment driver who ‘crashed his car at pro-Trump rally’ is pinned down in choke hold by MAGA crowd

Moment driver who ‘crashed his car at pro-Trump protest’ is pinned down in choke hold by MAGA crowd in California Jacob Garza, 20, was pinned down by Donald Trump supporters in Santa Maria, California after an alleged traffic incident Garza allegedly threw a bottle at the Trump supporters before causing a wreck Trump supporters are … Read more

Donald Trump compares cops who shoot civilians in the back to golfers who choke and miss putts

Donald Trump began to compare police officers who shoot civilians in the back to golfers who choke and miss putts in an interview broadcast Monday.  Discussing how police shot black man Jacob Blake seven times in the back, the president said: ‘They [the officers] choke, just like in a golf tournament, they miss a 3-foot … Read more