1. American Election Result

Did the US election polls fail?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4ve004llxo

What a Trump victory means for the UK

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvzjr8w9mxo

What Trump's win means for Ukraine, Middle East and China

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dl0e4l7lzo

How Much Did President Trump Add to the Debt?

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-did-president-trump-add-debt

Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

Trump and Biden: The National Debt

https://www.crfb.org/papers/trump-and-biden-national-debt

2. Reparations for the Slave trade

Here’s what Keir Starmer gets wrong about reparations: we’ve made them before, but now we have to do it right

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/30/keir-starmer-wrong-reparations-call-for-justice

France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/haiti-france-reparations

Slavery money: Understanding the debate on a historical compensation

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/07/24/slavery-money-understanding-the-debate-on-a-historical-compensation_6064784_7.html

Europe’s hollow apologies for colonial crimes stand in the way of true reparation

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/27/europe-apologies-colonial-crimes-reparation-belgium-germany-britain

Belgium – Moving from Regrets to Reparations

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/30/belgium-moving-regrets-reparations

How much is the UK worth? The challenges of capturing the value of our nation’s assets

https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2018/02/16/how-much-is-the-uk-worth-the-challenges-of-capturing-the-value-of-our-nations-assets

The national balance sheet and capital stocks, preliminary estimates, UK: 2024

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/bulletins/thenationalbalancesheetandcapitalstockspreliminaryestimatesuk/2024

3. Minimum Digital Living Standards

The Minimum Digital Living Standard for Households with Children

https://www.goodthingsfoundation.org/policy-and-research/research-and-evidence/research-2024/minimum-digital-living-standard

4. Student loan to rise.

University tuition fees set to rise in England

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0gjyj4979o

5. Flooding in Spain and Europe.

Accusations fly in Spain over who is to blame for flood disaster

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8xy03zk44o

Fresh Spain floods sweep away dozens of cars near Girona

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk4zlkdgk8o

2024 Europe Floods

https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disasters/2024-central-and-eastern-europe-floods

2024 Central European floods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Central_European_floods

Flooding causes chaos after month’s rain falls in a day in parts of England

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/23/months-rain-may-fall-in-a-day-in-parts-of-england-as-weather-warnings-issued-met-office

Public urged to prepare for floods after wettest 18 months on record

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/public-urged-to-prepare-for-floods-after-wettest-18-months-on-record

6. People stopped from entering housing estate

People loitering on Rochdale estate face arrest in first-of-its-kind police order

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/05/people-loitering-rochdale-freehold-estate-arrest-police-order-greater-manchester

7. Keeping people with mental ill health in police cells.

Bill to ban police cell mental health detentions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78d02zm3yno

8. Is it time to ban the sale of fireworks

Firefighters take 1,000 calls during Bonfire Night attacks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9wr182e5pko