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Patients could soon receive emergency treatment in temporary cabins erected in hospital car parks under new emergency plans unveiled by the Health Secretary in the Commons yesterdaySome A&E patients could be treated in hospital car parks under alarming new emergency plans designed to combat the crisis in the NHS. An urgent recovery plan for the National Health Service was announced in the House of Commons yesterday by Health Secretary Steve Barclay, who admitted that “the experience for some patients and staff” in emergency care had “not been acceptable” in recent weeks. He blamed crippling waits for treatment at hospitals on…

New South Wales Labor leader Chris Minns has put affordable housing at the forefront of the coming March state election.The Opposition leader is vowing to establish a new agency responsible for social housing, but Premier Dominic Perrottet has said adding to bureaucracy is not the answer. Source: Sky News

Good morning. The disturbing insurrection in Brazil, for all its parallels to the US Capitol riot, has one striking difference. It took Brazil’s police just hours to detain or arrest more than a thousand coup-mongers, while most of the American rioters walked free for weeks or months. Is it too far to call that hopeful?In other news, Ethan is just back from a vacation in the Bahamas, where, sadly, he was unable to visit the old FTX HQ. Lots of tropical fish, though. Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com.The debt ceilingLast week’s tragicomic House Speaker election has caused a lot of…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Stetson Bennett was all set to sign with Louisiana-Lafayette, a quality program out of the mid-major Sun Belt Conference. He had given the top level of college football a shot, attending Georgia as a walk-on out of high school.  After one season there of inaction, he left for junior college, where he put up strong numbers at Jones County in Mississippi, and verbally committed to Louisiana-Lafayette in December 2018.  “I woke up on signing day and planned on signing there,” he said over the summer, “And then Georgia called.”  Kirby Smart was offering him a scholarship. Bennett…

Prince Harry took no prisoners in his highly-anticipated memoir Spare, taking aim at pretty much every member of the royal family in a raft of savage attacks. His brother, Prince William, and stepmother Queen Camilla took the brunt of the accusations across the book’s 416 pages – but King Charles and Princess Kate also came in for a kicking. He also said the Queen’s disapproval of his first love and long-term ex Chelsy Davy was part of the reason the relationship broke down. However Harry also uses the book to express his love for his family, especially his father and…

President Biden on Monday refused to answer questions about the classified documents that were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, D.C.Records from Biden’s time as vice president were discovered at the think tank by his personal attorneys on Nov. 2, and included a “small number of documents with classified markings,” the White House said. The National Archives were notified and took possession of the documents the following day.”The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives,” White House special counsel Richard Sauber said in a statement. “Since that…

The Nelson Police Board has confirmed one of its officers has died and another is critically injured after they were caught in an avalanche near Kaslo. It adds, both officers were on snowmobiles when the incident occured.The City of Nelson made the announcement in a Facebook post Monday evening.The identities of the officers have not been publicly shared. Global News spoke with Nelson mayor Janice Morisson, who offers her condolences to the family.The City says more information will be released in the coming days.Global News has reached out to first responders for comment.  This is a developing story.More to come.…

Defending Taiwan against a Chinese invasion would come at a huge cost for the United States, Japan and Taiwan, a highly advanced war-game simulation has found.In the most comprehensive unclassified simulation of a conflict over Taiwan, the US-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) found a Chinese amphibious invasion of the Taiwan would be defeated, but the conflict would come at a massive cost for all primary combatants.The CSIS tested 24 different iterations of the simulation, with the most likely version of the scenario involving Australia as a part player.The findings come amidst reports China is intensifying military exercises…

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — A year ago, Kirby Smart became just the second of Nick Saban’s assistant coaches to beat him. On Monday, Smart became perhaps the first coach since Saban re-entered college football back in 2007 who can lay claim to owning the sport in the way he has for so long.  Each and every time someone has looked likely to put a halt to Alabama’s year-over-year dominance, Saban endured and his opposition faded. There was Dabo Swinney’s Clemson, which twice beat Alabama in national title games, but sans-Trevor Lawrence hasn’t made it back to the playoff. There was Jimbo…

The new year has many of us thinking about trying something we’ve never done before. Maybe you want to run a marathon or visit a new country.Well, how about both?I love running and when I was invited to the Sahara Desert for the Treg Algeria Trail for a week of ultramarathons and sightseeing, I couldn’t resist a trip to see what it was all about.What is the Treg Algeria Trail?Treg organises trail running and desert marathon holidays across the world. They are multi-day, multi-distance races where the runners must guide themselves with a GPS while carrying everything they need -…