For months now, the world has been transfixed by the stunning images streaming out of Hong Kong. There are photographs showing endless masses of people packing the streets, lit up by the omni-present cellphone screens glowing in the darkness, videos of masked young men pulling down facial recognition towers and flashing laser pointers at the police to […]
William Huang describes how politicians in India are backing a bill which orders civil servants to stop at two children.
Hackers invaded the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit database and published on the internet over a thousand emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets exchanged by scientists partisans of the man-made global warming theory. The extensive correspondence, which covered a ten-year span, showed the scientists plotting to manipulate data so as to make the warming theory […]
Christianity would have formed a central part of the lives of both the aristocracy and the ordinary people in Britain at the time, yet the historical adviser to the programme Alastair Bruce revealed that executives were in a “panic” about anything religious being seen on the show.
Portugal has had an exceptional experience with emigration and immigration for several hundred years. As skilled mariners they set sail to open up world markets over 500 years ago. Portuguese settled in all continents from Brazil in the Americas all the way to East Timor in Asia including large parts of Africa in between. In […]
New data on the mental health of American college students shows a sombre trend. Rates of depression, anxiety, low flourishing, suicidal thinking and suicidal attempts have all worsened over the years 2007 to 2018, according to research by Jean Twenge and colleagues, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health. And it’s not all down to more reporting. […]
According to analysis from the Charity Commission in the UK, in 2018 chief executive of Marie Stopes International Simon Cooke was paid £434,000, ‘after receiving a bonus that doubled his pay’; this takes him way above the £178,000 average of Britain’s biggest charity chiefs, but Mr Cooke ‘was awarded a performance-related bonus’ equal to his […]
Mandarin-speaking Mainlanders are drowning the city-state’s Cantonese culture
The elderly are an untapped resource – and so are the young.
If it turned out that a significant number of your employees had said racist or bigoted things in the past, the crisis PR manual would usually tell you that the best approach is to apologise, and put out a statement saying that lessons had been learned. Maybe a few individuals could be sent on sensitivity […]
We wake to breaking news this Wednesday that Boris Johnson will ask the Queen to prorogue Parliament. This is, and let’s be clear about it, an attack on parliamentary democracy in Britain. Since the Glorious Revolution in the 17th century sovereignty in Britain has rested with the Crown in Parliament. The government needs to gain […]
It’s a brave new world for the IRS: taxing robots. Uncle Sam is padding the Treasury with millions of dollars to assess bots at the same time that corporations invest more in advanced technology and labor-saving machinery, according to experts. New “robot” taxes are expected to multiply in the coming decades as millions of Americans […]