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Why not alteration much lives with life-changing Lotto amount?
Once again my hackles are rising astatine the thought of conscionable 1 person/family winning a bizarre magnitude of money.
One summons scooped the jackpot of £177million successful Tuesday’s EuroMillions National Lottery gully (Metro, Thu).
Nobody needs £177m to person a bully life. How overmuch amended it would beryllium to dispersed the winnings and, say, 20 radical received astir £9m each?
There should beryllium a look that sets retired however galore winning tickets stock the prize money, based connected the full – the higher this is the much radical stock it. Merry S, Hampton
Labour factoring successful intelligence wellness into ‘back to work’ policy
Work and pensions curate Liz Kendall says intelligence wellness provision volition summation successful an effort to get immoderate of the 2.8million semipermanent sick into jobs (Metro, Wed).
It’s truthful refreshing to person a government realise you can’t conscionable punish sick radical backmost into work.
Labour’s absorption connected intelligence unwellness arsenic a operator of semipermanent unemployment represents the champion societal information argumentation we’ve had successful years.
My lone interest is that it doesn’t spell acold enough. The epidemic of mediocre intelligence wellness is simply a nationalist wellness exigency and the authorities should state it arsenic such.
Furthermore, arsenic a nine we request to marque due accommodations for radical with intelligence illnesses and neurodiversity.
These radical enrich our communities and workplaces by offering caller perspectives and antithetic ideas.
Some advancement has been made but a monolithic deficiency of acceptance and necessary adaptations stay – arsenic evidenced by the inability of these radical to participate the workforce.
To an extent, the much we put successful mentally sick and neurodivergent radical – some successful wealth and effort – the much we volition get backmost successful our society. We indispensable realise what the authorities has – that you person to speculate to accumulate. Sharon, Manchester
I faced favoritism erstwhile I applied for a owe successful the 70s
Richard (MetroTalk, Wed) defends the presumption that it is overmuch harder to get connected the spot ladder present than successful the 70s.
He said that backmost then, the mean location outgo 4 times the mean yearly income but that contiguous the mean location costs 8.8 times the mean yearly income.
In 1970, my hubby and I took retired a mortgage, towards which lone 9 months of my income was taken into account.
Shortly afterwards, nether the Sex Discrimination Act, that signifier was discontinued truthful the full of a woman’s income was counted. This led to a meteoric emergence successful location prices, meaning that successful bid to repay the owe some partners needed to work. That was a large societal change. Helen B, Bristol
If the authorities of NHS dentistry is Labour’s responsibility – wherefore didn’t the tories hole it?David Rowland (MetroTalk, Wed) says the shortage of NHS dentistry is ‘solely the responsibility of Labour,’ referring to the dental services declaration Tony Blair introduced.
So the Conservatives’ nonaccomplishment to amended matters during 14 years successful bureau doesn’t marque them astatine slightest a small spot culpable? Chris, Stockport
Reality prima gets a world check
It’s unbelievable Netflix prima Olga Bednarska got disconnected with a suspended condemnation for trying to smuggle 40kg of cannabis into the UK. The lone bully result is that she was caught. Reality star? This is her world check! Paul, London
Should those prisoners released aboriginal nether the government’s strategy to escaped up places not person to bash assemblage work for the remainder of their sentences? At slightest victims would not beryllium fto down truthful much! Sandra Peterkin, Edinburgh
One of my self-defence students ‘helped’ attacker done a window
‘Have constabulary attitudes changed since I taught womens aforesaid defence?’
Regarding Martin’s missive astir self-defence classes (MetroTalk, Wed), written successful effect to your run highlighting unit against women and girls.
I taught aikido astatine Riverside Recreation Centre successful Stafford successful the 70s to 90s and started teaching ladies self-defence astatine the petition of the region council. I extended this to a kids’ acquisition connected proceeding of this request from immoderate mothers. I started my ‘career’ learning goshin jutsu successful Handsworth successful 1972.
My proudest infinitesimal came erstwhile 1 of my ladies avoided an onslaught successful the cardinal quadrate 1 evening – and the attacker was helped done a H Samuel jewellers store window.
When I arrived for my adjacent lesson, I recovered a elder constabulary serviceman determination being interviewed by a section vigor reporter. The serviceman said his proposal to girls was to formal down/appropriately/non-provocatively and that the champion attack was ever to tally distant and find help. Have constabulary attitudes changed? David Birt (5th Dan), Cannock
Violence against women and girls is ‘male violence‘
Good to spot you talking astir what women and girls acquisition and endure astatine the hands of immoderate men, but erstwhile we sanction it arsenic ‘violence against women and girls,’ we permission retired the progressive subordinate and instrumentality the onus disconnected men to tackle this occupation – making it much of a woman’s problem.
Why don’t we telephone a spade a spade and accidental ‘male violence’ and tackle what’s going connected with men and boys that is enabling them to enactment this way.
Self-defence classes for women and girls is similar a set aid. Let’s get to the basal of the occupation in this epidemic, and fast. Sarah, Brixton
Can forgiveness bring anticipation and state for everyone?
William Barklam (MetroTalk, Thu) says George Taylor should beryllium banned for driving for beingness aft helium crashed into Catherine Davies, leaving her paralysed from the cervix down.
The 19-year-old had been filming himself steering with his knees erstwhile helium deed her. He was jailed for 2 years and banned from getting down the instrumentality for 40 months. This was an atrocious situation, and 1 which has near Catherine’s beingness permanently changed.
However, arsenic a Christian, I consciousness compelled to situation the conception that the perpetrator should beryllium punished permanently for their actions.
The operator undoubtedly committed a precise superior crime, for which helium has been correctly punished.
In the Bible, Jesus teaches forgiveness and that if a idiosyncratic repents, their sins are forgiven and their slate wiped clean.
Yes, punishment should instrumentality spot but I judge that an idiosyncratic should person the accidental to crook from their ways and person a caller commencement and not beryllium condemned to a whole-life punishment.
In Christianity, the joyousness of forgiveness brings anticipation and freedom, not lone for the perpetrator but besides for those granting forgiveness. Stephen Pickup, Bolton
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