Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Calls for struggling Universal Credit claimants to be given £700 emergency cash boost amid cost of living crisis
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn independent think tank founded by former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has called on the government to provide an £700 emergency cash boost to help poorer families struggling under the pressures of soaring household costs.
A report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) has urged the Policy in Practice to consider the costs and consequences of three options that could give DWP benefits a much-needed rise as the cost of living crisis bites.
The first option the centre put forward proposes increasing DWP benefits as though they had been given a 10 per cent rise instead of the 3.1 per cent that was applied in April this year.
The move would cost the government £31. billion and would enable 4.2 million households to gain an average of £729 a year - equivalent to an extra £60 a month, BirminghamLive reports.
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