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By Priya By Annie The US election was the story that went around the globe. The US was divided into two opposing sides, one rooting for Donald Trump and the other Joe Biden. How- ever, more people rooted for Joe Biden and therefore he won the election. But how does this impact the way we all live and not just the US; how are our lives going to change over the next four years? As said before, the US was divided into two opposing teams who often disa- greed with each other about who they voted for and why. Therefore, what is it going to be like for those who rooted for Donald Trump to live with more people who voted for Joe Biden over four years? Many news articles also state that Donald Trump refuses to accept that he had lost the election. Not only this but what things are going to change in the US that was different when Donald Trump was president; what rules will be destroyed and what new regulations will be put in place. An article in the national geographic states that there are fears among the us that Donald Trump will reuse to relinquish the power he holds in office. It also says that constitutional law scholars say that there are protections in place to ensure that every president must leave office when his or her term is up-and if those protections were to fail, the country would be facing a much bigger constitutional crisis. When Biden won, Trump refused to concede and his campaign filed more than a dozen lawsuits against election vote counters to try and prove that they deliberately made a mistake in the counting process, and deliberately let Biden win. Many of these claims have already been dis- missed since they are based on thin evidence. The problem is that no modern presidential candi- date has ever refused to concede their position in the office which is why this is a large historic moment in time: No president ever has tried to do this Preparations for a situation like this were made at the constitutional convention in the US in 1787 They all agreed on a 4 year term with a hard end date. See the next page for a profile of the President-elect, Joe Biden! By Amber Joseph Robinette Biden Jr (the US president) was born on the 20 November 1942, in Pennsylvania. He has four children altogether: Hunter Biden, Beau Biden, Ashley Biden, Naomi Christina Biden (this includes two children who have sadly passed away). I am sure everybody has heard of Joe Biden, the US president. Well, who would have suspected his tragic past? In 1972, his first-born daughter, Naomi Christina Biden, and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, both died in a car acci- dent. Then, forty three years later, his son– Joseph "Beau" R. Biden III sadly died of brain cancer. 2020 Elections Donald Trump, who was the previous president belong- ing to the Republican Party, was also running for president in the 2020 elections. This diagram shows the US and its states. The red coloured states, are states are Republican states. Therefore, the blue ones are Democratic. 51.4% of votes went to the Democrats, making this a close vote. In total, the counted amount of votes was 81,255,933 for Joe Biden. 270 electoral votes were needed to win. Joe Biden ended up winning with 306 electoral votes. What does Biden want for America? Biden sees the risks and harm of Covid-19 and wants to beat it. He has stated that he will ‘follow the science’ and ‘put an end to the pandemic’. Helping to beat Covid-19 will be one of the first things he will do as president. He also wants to expand the Affordable Care Act by allowing people to buy into the government-run Medicare programme. This will help people who can’t or struggle to pay for medical treatment. This would also help more people to access medical services. Stronger acts against climate change could be seen with Biden as president as he wants to stand up for our planet and our environment. By Marcela Coronavirus has changed our lives over the past year, and finally a vaccine has been found. What exactly is this vaccine? The vaccine, made by BioNTech, is 95% effective, the most effi- cient of the various vaccines that have been researched to fight against coronavirus. It has now been approved in the UK mean- ing soon we will be able to use it. A benefit of the vaccine is that the side effects are mild—the worst side effects recorded were fa- tigue and headaches. The vaccine has been tested so that it meets all safety standards, made to the best quality. It is made of the messenger RNA, which is delivered in a tiny sphere of fatty material. The vaccine needs to be kept at around –70°, ultra cold storage, a big challenge. “[ The vaccine will be stored ] in what we are calling shipper, which essentially is like a pizza box and that is packed with dry ice. That maintains the temperature without any further refrigeration or further freezer for 10 days”, says Ben Osbourne, UK country manager. When will it be available? The vaccine will be available by around the 7th to 13th of December, the first people getting the vaccine being: People who live in care homes and care home workers People aged 80 and over Health and social workers In England, 50 hospitals have been chosen to give out the vaccine and Matt Hancock, health secretary, called the start of the scheme “a historic moment”. The containers holding the vaccines have arrived from Belgium, getting ready to be sent to hospitals. How will the scheme work? Steps that will be taken to make sure people who do get vac- cinated are safe from the coronavirus will be: Step 1: First dose given and immunity starts to build Step 2: 3 weeks after the first dose, the second dose is given. Step 3: 7 days after the second dose, full immunity. A political opinion piece by Olivia, Year 10. Disclaimer from the Editor: The Windmill is proud to publish student work on a range of topics. However, please note that the school takes a apolitical stance, and thus articles of a political nature reflect the opinions of the student contributor, not the school. In this article, I will be addressing the latest decision from the current Labour leader, Sir Kier Starmer. The suspension of Labour MP, Jeremy Corbyn, from the party following an investigation into antisemitism in the Labour party. To reit- erate, Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the party because he failed to act against antisemitism in the Labour party during his leadership. Before I get any further into the article, I would like to say that this is not impartial, all the opinions in this piece are my own and have been developed after my research. I encourage all of you to research this yourself and come to your conclusions. The Labour Party is the left-wing party Britain. The Labour Party operates on a basis that it is the party for the people. The party was formed in 1900 because of the struggles of the working class, trade unionists and socialists, with the aspiration of the working class being represented in parliament. The party was created to give ordinary working people a voice and the power to change their lives for the better. The Labour party has always sought to improve the lives of the working class and minority groups. Some of the Party’s achievements include: the NHS; minimum wage; ending the death penal- ty; decriminalization of homosexuality; legislation to outlaw racial discrimination; Equal Pay Act of 1970; Civil Partnerships; the Equality Act; the Human Rights Act; cancellation of up to 100% of debt for the world’s poorest countries and the world’s first Climate Change Act. All these Labour Party achievements benefit us to the present day. Jeremy Corbyn was the Labour leader from 2015-2019 and led the party with his firm anti-austerity beliefs and under him the party’s membership tripled in size. Sir Kier Starmer is now the new Labour leader. Jeremy Corbyn is a socialist (a left-wing political ideology of the workers owning the means of production). Corbyn stood up for our country and he constantly delivered for the ‘many and not the few.’ This means that Corbyn stood up for the average British person not just the bourgeoisie. Unlike the Conservative Party, who constantly remind us that they are the party for the privi- leged. Jeremy Corbyn believes in the Labour Party and stated ‘I am proud that the Labour Party, formed for and by working people, continues to stand up for working people. When Labour wins elections, it is the people and not the powerful who win. The nurse, the teacher, the small trader, the builder, the office worker, the student, the carer win. We all win.’ Corbyn believes that Britain needs a government who chooses the ‘people over the powerful,’ who do not give handouts to the ‘super-rich, whilst the rest of us face less money in our pockets and cuts to our NHS, schools, police and all the services we rely upon.’ Jeremy Corbyn is against austerity. Austerity includes reductions in welfare spending, the cancellation of school building programs, reduced government local funding, and an increase in VAT.

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