Take five: A news summary for anxious times
The Flock's weekly round-up of events you need to know about...
Well, where do we start? It’s been a bit of a week, hasn’t it?
To be honest, I could have included 999 stories this week and still have found more – but that wouldn’t be the point of this exercise. Take five exists to reduce anxiety and overwhelm, not add to it.
As such, this is far from an exhaustive list of this week’s happenings. Instead, what you’ll find below are five news stories you need to know about this week, five tales of optimism to counter the negative narrative, and five reads that got me thinking this week.
Let’s do this…
The headlines
1. Boris Johnson resorts to boosterism following bruising confidence vote
Boris Johnson was this week accused of risking both the Northern Ireland protocol and British housing security as he fought to get his premiership back on track.
The PM turned to his favourite hot button topics following a narrow victory in this week’s Conservative confidence vote which saw 41% of his own MPs vote for his removal from office.