House Speaker Paul Ryan, who also supported the tax bill, recently went further than Meadows, making clear in a radio interview that welfare or « entitlement reform, » as the party often calls it, would be a top Republican priority in 2018. In Republican parlance, « entitlement » programs mean food stamps, housing assistance, Medicare and Medicaid health insurance…

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(Picture: Rex/Twitter)Virgin Trains responded to patronising customer incident – by being even more sexist. Emily Cole says her customer service query was dismissed by a Virgin Trains manager who called her ‘honey’. What people are saying about being #backtowork The passenger said the encounter was ‘hideously patronising’ and made her shudder. To add insult to…

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Keep track of those ‘Uber appointments.’Image: AP/REX/ShutterstockBy Shannon Connellan2018-01-01 23:47:03 UTC Remember a time before Uber? Your grandma does, and she’s more pure than this world will ever be again. Especially reddit user ck2400’s grandma, who presented her grandchild with a 2018 weekly pocket planner because she « thought this would be good for your Uber…