Task 10

TASK 10: TYPICAL SYNOPSIS: Take 2 different current affairs magazines and write a paragraph summarising the main stories and issues covered in each. What ideas do they give you for your own magazine?


The Big Issue


 Main stories

  • Poverty -->Marcus Rashford, Emma Thompson and more urge PM to review free school meal

Celebrities teamed up with more than 40 charities and education experts to demand government action on the food system failing pupils.

Written a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson demanding action on the free school meals system which has “lurched from one crisis to another”.

Disadvantaged children already disproportionately impacted by Covid-19 should not “continue to bear the brunt” of the pandemic, the letter said.

  •  Ride out recession alliance -->Will the 48-hour working week be scrapped?
The Government has insisted it has "absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights"
 
The Financial Times reported worker protections enshrined in EU law could be changed as ministers plan for a post-Brexit overhaul of the UK workforce.
 
The law currently says you can’t work more than 48 hours a week, usually averaged out over 17 weeks. 
  •  Children --> Millions in funding for kid’s health ‘unaccounted for’ in sugar tax dispute
The Government seemed to be “pathologically resistant to being fully transparent and accountable in how they are using every single penny of the levy on children’s health”
 
Ministers are refusing to say how hundreds of millions of pounds earmarked for children’s health has been spent, a charity has alleged, amid an ongoing row over the quality of free school meals. 
  • Homeless --> Government has ‘moral duty’ to give homeless priority on vaccines
Dr Zahid Chauhan is calling on the Health Secretary to act after he gave out the ‘world’s first’ jabs to a homeless couple this week.
 
First Covid-19 vaccinations for homeless people has written to Health Secretary Matt Hancock demanding priority access to be given to those without a secure home.
  • Ride out recession alliance --> The ‘impossible choice’ of being a working mum in lockdown

The Big Issue speaks to a working mum about the exhausting balancing act of looking after children and keeping a business afloat

But the past year has been like no other. Since schools closed in the third national lockdown, Gemma is essentially working two jobs: business owner and homeschooler to her four and eight-year-old boys.

 Vanity Fair

 Main stories
  •  Why extremists could plague the country for months 
 Extremists have likely been emboldened by the storming of the Capitol, and experts are worried about what will happen on Inauguration Day—and after.
 
After a seditious mob of Donald Trump supporters—counting QAnon followers, election-fraud truthers, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists in its ranks—descended on Washington last week, breaching police barriers and desecrating symbols of American democracy, counterterrorism professionals warn that the threat of violence in the days leading up to and during Joe Biden’s inauguration has hardly dissipated.
  • When Sex and the City Returns, Will It Finally Get Queer People Right?
As it followed four friends—Samantha, Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie, Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda, and Kristin Davis’s Charlotte—snappily discussing the details of their sex lives, dating preferences, and personal aspirations. But its quippy, city-girl tone has aged unevenly. 


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