Neither money nor Musk should control our politicians
The IndependentWe live in a democracy. Susan Lammin Dumfries Social care needs short-term help too Meaningful reform of social care is long overdue, and, as the chief executive at Anchor, myself and my colleagues welcome the intent to achieve cross-party agreement to finally address an issue affecting growing numbers of some of the most vulnerable people in the country. Julian Self Wolverton Helping the far-right push their agenda Just a few weeks after he endorsed Germany’s far-right political party Alternative for Germany, billionaire Elon Musk has smeared the UK’s Asian community as sexual predators – while calling for the release of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, who is currently serving a jail sentence for contempt of court. A Home Office report published in 2020 concluded that the majority of child sexual abuse gangs in the UK were made up of white men under the age of 30. The Office for National Statistics also reports that 2.3 million women aged 16 and over experienced domestic violence last year, and one million women reported experiencing sexual assault.