DEMONSTRATIONS IN US OVER ‘CHOKEHOLD’There has been a second night of angry demonstrations in US cities including New York and Washington DC over the refusal of a grand jury to charge a white policeman who put a black suspect in a stranglehold shortly before his death. Civil rights leaders say the decision is a “travesty of justice”.
OSBORNE COMPLAINS OF ‘HYPERBOLIC’ PRESSAs the chancellor, George Osborne, complains of “hyperbolic” press coverage of his spending plans, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned his “colossal” cuts to public spending might force a “fundamental re-imagining …read more
Source: The Week
