9th February, 2021.
Something you’ll notice, if you watch my intro video the whole way through? Is the ending.
Yes: that’s taken from the main door of the building.
That’s pretty nasty for around here!
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You’ve worked out I’m not working, at the moment: haven’t you?
And that I’m getting a UK benefit called Universal Credit: and, as such? I — like everyone else on the benefit — am getting an extra twenty pounds a week, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
That benefit, however? Is due to end in March.
There’s been complaints about that, over the past few weeks.
I’ve felt the planned one-off payments aren’t a good alternative, that marking the £20 uplift is better, and that it should be made permanent.
Most recently from the Work and Pensions Secretary, Therese Coffey.
Today, however? We see that the Commons Work and Pensions committee agrees with her.
Sort of.
They’ve insisted that the uplift should remain in place for at least another year.
I’m say it again: I would prefer it to be permanent.
But another year would be a good thing.
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The US Senate is doing more work, today: towards impeaching former US president, Donald Trump.
Good thing too: encouraging your supporters to storm Congress seems slightly naughty, to say the least.
About the only thing I’ll give the former president?
Is authorising Project Artemis: a planned US moon shot.
My only concern, when President Biden was elected? Was whether he’d cancel that.
After all, President Obama — Joe Biden had been Obama’s Vice President — had cut NASA’s funding: and been heavily criticised for doing so by no less than Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon.
Thankfully?
President Biden has decided to keep funding the project.
I’m glad to hear it.
The USA used to be a space leader.
With the United Arab Emirates heading for Mars*, it needs to catch up.
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