Companies offered £3,000 to hire under-24s
The government is offering businesses a cash incentive to hire unemployed youngsters. The aim is to reduce the two million under-24s who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). ‘It’s a great scheme,’ whooped a government cheerleader. ‘£3,000 is a massive bung. It will cover the extra costs of the minimum wage that we whacked them with at the last budget, and it will cover the extra costs of higher national insurance and lower national insurance thresholds. An
Trump declares that the Strait of Hormuz is "fake news"
"I never heard of it before," Trump told his audience at a rally in Ignoramus, Nebraska. "And none of my golfing buddies or sons in law ever heard anything about this Strait of Hormuz, either - and they're my Middle East experts. "But that might be because they're the kind of experts who shoot their mouths off first and look at maps after. "I hear people are saying that the Iranians has just invented this Hormuz place. They're saying to me: 'Sir, this is the dead Ayatollah s
