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BBC News
17-07-2025
- BBC News
Government spends £53m on domestic violence programme
The government is spending £53m over the next four years on an intervention programme which it says can help domestic violence perpetrators change their lives and move away from abuse. Since 2016, a pilot scheme has been working with perpetrators on a one-to-one basis to help them come off drugs and alcohol and resolve personal an independent evaluation that concluded the pilot had successfully cut abuse, the government has decided to fund an expansion of the programme across England and Wales. Home Office Minister Jess Phillips said the money would give victims a "better and safer future" but some domestic violence charities have expressed scepticism. The Drive Project pilot, which has begun operating in Essex, South Wales and West Sussex, has focused on high-risk or serial domestic violence perpetrators through intensive one-to-one case management for up to 12 that, victims are given a "dedicated independent domestic violence adviser" to provide support. But Debbie Jones, from the charity Resolute, said: "The only real deterrents to serious domestic violence are tougher prison sentences and stricter licensing conditions if perpetrators aren't sent to jail."And Refuge's Ellie Butt said the programme "may go some way in reducing the risk" but warned that perpetrator programmes "often lead to increased demand on local services for survivors so without co-ordinated and sustained investment across the sector, these new efforts will still fall far short of what is needed". An evaluation carried out by the University of Bristol found that the Drive Project programme reduced domestic violence, cutting physical abuse by 82%, sexual abuse by 88% and harassment and stalking behaviours by 75%.Kyla Kirkpatrick, head of the Drive Partnership, said victims "want and need better responses to the people causing harm in their lives. They need them to be seen, held to account and stopped."She said the Drive Project delivered this and added that evaluation had proved "it works". The programme will go live in 15 new areas by March 2026 and a full roll-out across England and Wales will follow. Speaking to the BBC, the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, Jess Phillips, said the programme was part of "an effort" to change the behaviour of perpetrators rather than victims. Asked if the programme would see fewer perpetrators going to prison, Phillips said offenders would "still see the full force of the law". She added that the "vast majority of domestic violence perpetrators never go to prison". A further £230,000 will be spent on specially-trained plain-clothed officers who will patrol streets at night to crack down on predatory its manifesto, Labour promised to halve violence against women and girls in a on the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee have urged the government to provide more funding for support services and for tackling online a letter to Phillips, committee chair Tonia Antoniazzi said: "The shocking scale of violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland, highlighted by the harrowing experiences we heard of those who are forced to put up with it daily, cannot be tolerated any longer."The government is pointing to the project as a example of how it can work with charities, faith groups and social enterprises to deliver on its policies. In a speech in central London, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer launched a "Civil Society Covenant" which would introduce a stronger role for the third sector in government. "This is about rebalancing power and responsibility - not the top-down approach of the state working alone," he said."Not the transactional approach of markets left to their own devices but a new way forward – where government and civil society work side by side to deliver real change."
Politico
18-06-2025
- Politics
- Politico
Inside the clashes between Trump and Gabbard
As President Donald Trump privately mulled joining Israel's campaign against Iran this month, one member of his Cabinet sent what he viewed as an audacious attempt to steer him in the opposite direction. At 5:30 a.m. on June 10, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tweeted a cryptic, three-minute video warning that 'political elite and warmongers' are 'carelessly fomenting fear and tensions between nuclear powers' — and that the world is 'on the brink of nuclear annihilation.' Trump saw the unauthorized video and became incensed, complaining to associates at the White House that she had spoken out of turn, according to three people familiar with the episode — two of them inside the administration and all granted anonymity to describe sensitive dynamics. Her post came a few days after Israel hawks met with Trump at the White House to lobby him to support Israel's attacks on Iran. In the eyes of Trump and some close to him, Gabbard was warning him not to greenlight Israel attacking Iran. Trump even expressed his disapproval to her personally, the three people said. 'I don't think he dislikes Tulsi as a person … But certainly the video made him not super hot on her … and he doesn't like it when people are off message,' said one of the people, a senior administration official. The official added that Trump also doesn't appreciate it when people appear to be correcting him and that 'many took that video as trying to correct the administration's position.' Trump's reaction to the video — which has not been previously reported — underscores a widening gap between a president on the brink of potentially joining Israel's war, and his anti-interventionist intelligence chief, who in the past has been adamantly against the U.S. engaging in new foreign conflicts. Indeed, the man Gabbard endorsed on the campaign trail — who spoke of ending the Ukraine-Russia War on Day 1 and ushering in a new era of peace — is striking a different tone from her now that he's sitting behind the Resolute desk. Those tensions came to the forefront early Tuesday when a reporter aboard Air Force One asked Trump about Gabbard's declaration before Congress in March that Iran was not seeking to build a nuclear weapon. Trump appeared to dismiss her assessment. 'I don't care what she said,' Trump replied. 'I think they were very close to having a weapon.' It's a remarkable change in tone from the way the president once talked about the former Democratic representative from Hawaii-turned-Trump supporter. Last fall, Trump touted Gabbard's backing on the campaign trail. He added her — as well as Robert F. Kennedy — to his Cabinet in part to highlight the ideological diversityof the MAGA coalition. But in recent months, Trump has increasingly mused about nixing Gabbard's office completely, an idea he floated when he gave her the job. In the White House there have been discussions about folding its mandate into the CIA or another agency, according to one of the people familiar with his response to the video and two others familiar with the matter — though it's unclear what that would mean for Gabbard. The Director of National Intelligence serves as the president's principal intelligence adviser and oversees the sprawling U.S. spy community. Gabbard's tweet about nuclear war may have spurred those conversations along. Citing a recent trip to Hiroshima, Japan — where she visited the blast site from one of the two atomic bombs the U.S. dropped to end World War II — the DNI warned in graphic terms of weapons potentially 'vaporizing entire cities.' Her statements were in keeping with the sentiment of many MAGA leaders that deeper U.S. involvement in the Israel-Iran clashes could pull America into a regional and even worldwide conflict. But ever since then there's been simmering frustration with Gabbard in the West Wing. The president, after all, notably called former President Barack Obama 'pathetic' in 2016 for visiting Hiroshima, and argued that people shouldn't apologize for anything the U.S. did during WWII. And Trump has 'just been kind of down on her in general,' said one of the people familiar with Gabbard's interactions with the White House, adding that Trump thinks she 'doesn't add anything to any conversation.' Gabbard insisted to reporters Tuesday that she and the president are 'on the same page' on Iran, and a person close to Gabbard denied any tensions between her and the president. As recently as Tuesday, the two were meeting with other top officials in the Situation Room at the White House, and the administration even changed the time of the briefing to accommodate her schedule to ensure she could attend, the person said. The Gabbard ally added that she is fully on board with what Trump is trying to do with Iran, and said she has never let her personal views color the advice she provides to the president — nor has she tried to sway Trump to her own point of view. Asked for comment, White House spokesperson Steven Cheung said the president 'has full confidence in his entire exceptional national security team' and insisted that 'efforts by the legacy media to sow internal division are a distraction that will not work.' Vice President JD Vance's team also reached out unprompted Tuesday night to defend Gabbard in a statement, arguing that she is 'an essential member' of the team. 'Tulsi Gabbard is a veteran, a patriot, a loyal supporter of President Trump, and a critical part of the coalition he built in 2024,' he said in a statement. Gabbard argued to reporters on Tuesday that what Trump said about Iran's nuclear program is consistent with her March testimony before Congress. Gabbard said then that even as the intelligence community assessed that Tehran hadn't reinvigorated its nuclear weapons program — findings consistent with assessments shared by senior officials during the Biden administration — Iran's stockpiles of enriched uranium were at their highest levels. 'President Trump was saying the same thing that I said in my annual threat assessment back in March; unfortunately too many people in the media don't care to actually read what I said,' she said. Trump's comments on Air Force One, however, suggest it's not just the media who didn't catch that nuance. The apparent divide has been a source of gossip among people on both sides of the ideological spectrum who are closely following the rising tensions in the Middle East. Israel hawks like conservative talk show host Mark Levin have mocked Gabbard's assessment, suggesting that U.S. intelligence under her leadership has been flat-out incorrect. Some of Gabbard's detractors are now holding up Trump's words to argue that she should get the axe. 'She shouldn't be in that job,' Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, who had his own falling out with Trump, said Tuesday. Video of Trump's comments about Gabbard on Air Force One have also stirred speculation on Capitol Hill that he has lost trust in her, said one senior congressional aide. Lawmakers of both parties were sharing the video widely among themselves on Tuesday morning, said the aide, who was granted anonymity to share details of private conversations. 'This is not just the hawkish camp,' the person said. 'This is every single member sending it around.' Even people who agree with Gabbard have been worried about her influence waning: On his podcast War Room on Monday, MAGA ringleader Steve Bannon rhetorically asked his guest Tucker Carlson why Gabbard was not invited to what appears to have been a critical Camp David huddle earlier this month, where Trump and senior officials from his CIA director to chief of staff and the vice president discussed how to posture amid Israeli's looming strike. 'You know why … This is a regime change effort,' Carlson answered. Gabbard — who has spoken of losing friends while serving in the military — has in the past been extremely outspoken against such incursions. The former lawmaker has long been 'focused on not getting ourselves into another horrible war we can't succeed in or get our way out of,' said Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at the think-tank Defense Priorities, whom Gabbard tapped to serve in a top job at ODNI but whose appointment was axed following an uproar about his past criticism of Israel's conduct in Gaza. Gabbard's defenders have pushed back on suggestions that she's getting iced out. The intelligence chief, who is a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army National Guard, was on Army Reserve duty the weekend of the Camp David huddle, according to one person familiar with the matter. The Gabbard ally also said that she has been in the room with the president and vice president throughout deliberations on the Israel-Iran issue, working out of the White House rather than ODNI's office since Israel first started its bombing campaign. Trump, instructed her to reach out to her Israeli counterpart and the Gulf States to be in touch. Gabbard isn't without allies in the administration. Even as she's been savaged by Republicans eager for Trump to enter the fighting fray, Vance took it upon himself to defend her on X on Tuesday afternoon. But what matters, of course, is how Trump himself views her. And while Gabbard is indeed still around the White House, the senior administration official remarked that 'just because you're here doesn't mean that you're doing a great job.' Trump's original decision to nominate Gabbard to serve as his spy chief sparked widespread concern among national security officials and Democrats — and even some hawkish Republicans privately — on Capitol Hill. She has flirted with fringe ideas about the wars in Ukraine and Syria, and has evinced a deep skepticism of the intelligence community she now oversees. After she was confirmed in February, Gabbard carved out an unusually public role for a spy chief, eagerly carrying out the president's agenda and letting the world know about her work for Trump in regular appearances on Fox News and in social media posts and interviews with right-wing media stars. She revoked the security clearances of dozens of the president's political enemies and critics, maligned some of the officials that work beneath her and fired two top officials who oversaw the production of an intelligence assessment that undercut Trump's justification for the mass deportation of migrants from Latin America. But there were signs that she may be on her own path, according to some in the administration. For one, her very visit to Hiroshima perplexed the White House, according to one of the aforementioned administration officials. The intelligence chief appears to have tacked on a trip to the city as she paid a visit to a Marine Corps air station in Iwakuni, close to Hiroshima, after attending the Shangri-La dialogue in Singapore. But the White House has questioned whether the trip was relevant to her role as Director of National Intelligence, even as the Gabbard ally said the Japan trip was coordinated and approved by the NSC. As Gabbard navigates the politics of Trump's White House, she may also be thinking ahead to what might come next. In a recent podcast interview with former Fox News host Megyn Kelly in May, Gabbard didn't rule out running for president in 2028. 'I will never rule out any opportunity to serve my country,' Gabbard said. If Trump decides to join Israel in attacking Iran, that could complicate her calculus of serving in the administration. Jack Detsch contributed to this report.
Mint
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Lounge Loves: Vodka sodas, a musical time machine and more
Afew weeks after my dog passed away, a gift mysteriously arrived in the mail. It was an adorable ceramic coffee cup featuring a dog with a scarf. My partner appropriated it from me and a short daily struggle ensued over who would use it first every day. Now we share Chef Puff, as he is named by The Strange Co., where the cup is from. Chef Puff is no longer available, but other objects with original and very cute characters are there, including dogs named Joy and Judy, and a chubby feline named Mr Chonk—some of which I have gifted to others. Chef Puff doesn't really look like my own dog, but sometimes while I'm furiously typing away on a busy day, if I glance over at Puff, I can't help but smile. It also helps that the cup is the perfect size, allowing me not to overdose on caffeine through the day. — Dakshayani Kumaramangalam It feels entirely fitting to write about this book in an issue where we look at Jane Austen's legacy 250 years after her birth. The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker is an out-and-out romance between a London stage actor and a theatre critic against the backdrop of a play being staged that sounds deliciously intriguing—iconic characters from various Austen novels come together in one script that hinges on a murder mystery and is interactive to boot, with the audience getting to choose the course of the narrative and its outcome. The romance is nice and all, with zingy dialogue and tingly chemistry, but I wish the author had written the play instead (or at least included it as an appendix). Lydia Bennet as unhinged murderer? Oh yes. From vodka vixen to gin enthusiast, my drink preferences have evolved greatly since I was 21. I still adore Cosmopolitans and Resolute pink vodka, but I can't keep up with the hangovers. So I tried hard seltzers, for a light buzz akin to beer but without the calories and the bloat. The aftertaste of most seltzers was rather off-putting. Recently, I chanced upon Everyday Friday, a premixed vodka soda with 5% ABV, a nice change from a regular vodka cocktail's 40%. I like the peach lemonade flavour the best. They also have a cranberry lime and a cold brew caramel for the more adventurous palette. The brand's typography and design make my fridge shelf look so aesthetic. These days my work hours have me singing along loudly to songs playing out of my TV—from George Michael's Father Figure to Duran Duran's Come Undone and Britney Spears' Toxic. All thanks to Music Box Classic channel I discovered recently. The channel plays hits from the 1980s to the 2000s. Sweet, sweet nostalgia indeed. I don't know if there's an algorithm at the channel's HQ picking the songs but whoever's at the helm is doing a banging job. The hits come non-stop and in no particular order—Army Of Lovers' campy 1993 song La Plage de Saint Tropez is followed by Nelly Furtado's 2000 hit, I'm Like a Bird and 1979 Disco number, Boogie Wonderland by American band, Earth, Wind & Fire. From discovering less-known singers to the fashion of those years, the channel is my time machine to the good ol' times. — Mahalakshmi Prabhakaran
Daily Mirror
06-06-2025
- Business
- Daily Mirror
Billionaire owner's brutal put-down of racing sheikh in ongoing public feud
Mike Repole shared a video of Sheikh Fahad Al Thani falling off a horse in a charity race at Newmarket after he stuck up for rival owner John Stewart A billionaire racehorse owner has brutally put down a racing sheikh after he intervened in an ongoing public feud with another rival. Mike Repole is one of the most successful owners in US horse racing. The New Yorker, who sold his drinks manufacturing businesses to Coca Cola for nearly £8 billion, poured his fortune into establishing a racing stable which has produced star names such as Uncle Mo and Breeders' Cup winners Fierceness and Forte. In the last 12 months he has been engaged in increasingly spiky exchanges on social media with a relative newcomer to the sport, John Stewart. Former Toyota production line worker Stewart, who runs his own private equity business, has spent millions establishing his Resolute Racing racing and breeding operation since 2023. The vocal Repole has branded himself the 'commissioner' of horse racing in the US who is committed to unifying the factions in the sport but his banter with Stewart has become increasingly bitter. Last year, after Stewart described Repole as 'divisive', the New Yorker responded by calling his rival an 'arrogant, free spending new kid on the block' and a 'shallow rich guy'. Stewart, who last year added the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Goliath to his string, is sponsoring races this weekend at the Belmont Stakes fixture at Saratoga. He explained he had become involved for 'for the horseplayers and the fans. Without the horseplayers and the fans the sport doesn't exist in the US.' He added: 'There are enough 'look at me' people in the horse industry that are just in it for what they can get from it. 'I believe that in order to be a true participant in horse racing you have to support the broader industry. I am not a breed to sell operation and we don't stand stallions so some may argue that we shouldn't sponsor races. 'Resolute sponsors races for the same reason we participate in stallions shares and hold free promotional events for fans and industry participants. 'I want Resolute to promote the sport and to engage with others. Of course we like winning races and we do, but we like handing out trophies to others and celebrating others success.' Repole could not resist commenting on the post, and responded: 'I have to give credit where credit is due. In the 150 year history of Thoroughbred Racing, Little John is the ONLY owner to ever sponsor more races than he has won!!!!! This is an historic and epic feat that will never be duplicated!!!!! 'I am ashamed and embarrassed to admit that Repole Stable has won over 1000 career races, over 100 stake races, Classics, Breeders Cups, won the Travers 2x, Multiple Eclipse Awards etc, etc, and NEVER sponsored a race. 'I would like to 'sincerely' apologize to my family, friends, all of Gioia's stuffed animals and the Thoroughbred industry for any embarrassment I have caused you by consistently winning races. Will you forgive me?' Rallying to Stewart's side, Sheikh Fahad Al Thani, whose Qatar Racing is a partner in some of Stewart's horses and who through Qipco has been a major sponsor in Britain, remarked: 'At least someone gives back to the races. We all have to do our part not just take.' But Repole dug up a clip of Sheikh Fahad falling off his horse and crashing through the rail during the 2017 Newmarket Town Plate. The sheikh suffered minor cuts to his head and face. He said: 'Sheikh Fahad, I will take the high road on this disappointing post, because we both know this is untrue. I am just happy you and the horse were both OK after this incident.' He signed it :'Mike From Queens.'
The Hindu
22-05-2025
- Business
- The Hindu
SixUnited, Resolute Group ink pact to jointly manufacture tablets, PCs and laptops in Telangana
Hyderabad-headquartered Resolute Group and Chinese consumer electronics and intelligent networking solutions firm SixUnited signed a strategic agreement to jointly manufacture tablets, personal computers (PCs) and laptops in Telangana. The agreement, which Resolute described as a landmark move that will elevate India's global standing in electronics manufacturing, was signed on the sidelines of Computex Taipei, a prestigious trade show for information and communication technologies globally. A high-level delegation represented Telangana at the exhibition to showcase the State's progressive electronics manufacturing ecosystem. This collaboration is a major stride towards Make in Telangana mission, which aims to strengthen domestic production capabilities and enhance global exports, Resolute said in a press release without sharing details of the likely investment and number of jobs to be generated. The agreement was executed as part of a special initiative by Telangana government and formally signed by SixUnited CEO Michael and senior V-P of Resolute Group Sachin Batra in the presence of the Group's CMD Raminder Singh and Telangana government Industry & Investment Cell and SPEED (Smart Proactive Efficient and Effective Delivery) additional CEO E.V. Narasimha Reddy. The collaboration is expected to generate significant employment, facilitate advanced technology transfers and further reinforce India's emergence as a high-tech electronics manufacturing hub on the global map. SixUnited is a one-stop solution provider for global consumer electronics and intelligent networking products and brings expertise across research and development, design, manufacturing and operational services. Its product line spans notebooks, tablets, mini PCs, AIOs, PC peripherals, servers, IoT solutions and industrial control systems. It is known for pioneering innovations across smart infrastructure domains including smart cities, supercomputing, transportation, healthcare, and education. For more than 25 years, Resolute Group has been providing electronics manufacturing services to international brands, the firm said.
