Business US tech industry becomes hotbed for employee activismAssociated Press - By SAMANTHA MALDONADO, Associated PressSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Liz O'Sullivan was hired at the New York City-based artificial intelligence company Clarifai in 2017, she felt lucky to find work at the intersection of two of her main interests:
Play buttonAmazon Rainforest Brazilian minister booed at climate event as outcry grows over Amazon firesThe Guardian - Dom Phillips in Rio de JaneiroThe environment minister of Brazil, where wildfires have been sweeping the Amazon rainforest, was booed at a climate event on Wednesday as celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and Ariana Grande joined
Hong Kong 'They are fighting for nothing': the view on Hong Kong protests from ShenzhenThe Guardian - Michael Standaert in ShenzhenThere was an uneasy sense of calm on Sunday in Shenzhen, the Chinese city on the other side of the bay from Hong Kong where hundreds of troops from the People’s Armed Police [PAP] have been deployed in
Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell 'boasted of collecting compromising material on the rich and famous'The Telegraph - By Harriet AlexanderJeffrey Epstein boasted about having compromising material on “an astonishing number” of rich and famous people, it has been claimed, while his British confidante Ghislaine Maxwell reportedly told friends
Jeffrey Epstein The Day Jeffrey Epstein Told Me He Had Dirt on Powerful PeopleThe New York Times - By JAMES B. STEWARTAlmost exactly a year ago, on Aug. 16, 2018, I visited Jeffrey Epstein at his cavernous Manhattan mansion. The overriding impression I took away from our roughly 90-minute conversation was that Mr. Epstein
Rachel Riley BCP Labour councillor Lisa Lewis in anti-Semitism row involving Countdown star Rachel Rileybournemouthecho.co.uk - Josh Wright A LABOUR councillor has been criticised by a TV presenter for posting a link to an allegedly anti-Semitic article on social media. On Monday morning, …
Dominic Cummings Political ads are all over Facebook. But voters are in the dark about where they come fromThe Guardian - Martin MooreTo condemn all online political campaigns ignores the extent to which digital advertising has become ubiquitous On the day Boris Johnson took over as prime minister, hundreds of Facebook ads dropped like
Business UK reclaims place as world's second largest arms exporterThe Guardian - Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editorBritish defence exports rose to a record £14bn in 2018, with sales to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar and other countries in the Middle East accounting for nearly 80% of that figure, official figures reveal.
UK News Dubai ruler’s wife seeks 'forced marriage protection order' in English courtReuters - Andrew MacAskillLONDON (Reuters) - The wife of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum has applied for a “forced marriage protection order” in England’s High Court in relation to one of her two children. Princess
Race & Ethnicity Liverpool lord mayor stripped of title after sharing racist videoThe Guardian - Amy WalkerLiverpool’s lord mayor has been stripped of his title after two months in the role for sharing a racist video in a private WhatsApp group. Peter Brennan was asked to step down by the city’s elected mayor,
Three Labour MPs blast their own frontbench over racism 'complicity'dailymail.co.uk - Daniel Martin Policy Editor Labour MPs last night accused their own frontbench of being ‘actively complicit’ in smearing whistleblowers who have exposed anti-Semitism in the …
Kevin Spacey: prosecutors drop case accusing actor of groping teenThe Guardian - Associated PressProsecutors dropped a case on Wednesday accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a resort island bar in 2016, after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains
MPs call for investigation into anti-Semitism complaints handlingdailymail.co.uk - Claire Ellicott Political Correspondent Jeremy Corbyn must set up an independent investigation into accusations the Labour high command interfered with anti-Semitism complaints, a group of …
Labour whistleblower: Corbyn ally ‘took control’ of anti-Semitism complaintstimesofisrael.com - By TOI staff Another former Labour staffer has come forward to allege systemic interference in anti-Semitism complaints by senior members of the Britain’s main …
John Ware: ‘I was braced for an angry response to my BBC antisemitism film’The Guardian - Vanessa ThorpeJohn Ware, the veteran television journalist who made the BBC’s controversial Panorama programme on the Labour party’s handling of antisemitism, said he was braced for an angry response to his documentary
UK police identify suspect behind leaked envoy memos: Sunday TimesReuters - by Michael HoldenLONDON (Reuters) - The suspect behind the leak of confidential memos from Britain's Washington ambassador, which sparked a major diplomatic rift with the United States, has been identified, the Sunday
Labour councillor 'suspended' after string of complaints from womenliverpoolecho.co.uk - Jonathan Humphries, Liam Thorp Wavertree councillor David Cummings had aslo been filmed calling a Labour colleague a 'pathetic little f*****g b***h'. A Labour councillor says he has …
Labour party chair received £165,000 from union, watchdog findsThe Guardian - Rajeev SyalRegulator says no further action is to be taken over payments to Ian Lavery, who was president of NUM for eight years The chair of the Labour party received just over £165,000 from a trade union he ran
Brexit Party chief's lover behind story that forced US ambassador Darroch to quitmirror.co.uk - Nigel Nelson EXCLUSIVE: Former Sunday Times political editor and unofficial David Cameron biographer Isabel Oakeshott revealed Sir Kim Darroch's emails …
EHRC contacting 100 Labour staff demanding information on anti-Semitism controversyinews.co.uk - Simon Rushton Up to 100 Labour figures are being contacted in an investigation into anti-Semitism inside the party. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has …
Met Police insist they respect press freedom amid row over leaked memossky.com - By Tania Snuggs However, Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu also said further publication of specific documents could constitute a criminal offence. The Metropolitan …
Whistleblowers to sue Labour as antisemitism row deepensThe Guardian - Toby Helm, Michael Savage and Stefan BosciaThe Labour high command is to be sued by former employees who broke cover last week to criticise the party’s handling of cases of alleged antisemitism in a dramatic escalation of the row engulfing Jeremy
A threatening legal letter over antisemitism just makes me wonder what the Labour Party has got to hideindependent.co.uk - Sean O'Grady Carter-Ruck is not a name you readily associate with the Labour movement. This fancy firm of solicitors is, rather, the letterhead of choice for the …
British Airways faces record £183m fine for data breachbbc.co.uk - BBC News British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for last year's breach of its security systems.
Xinjiang Xinjiang Forcing Thousands Of Muslim Children Into 'Prison-Like' Schools: ReportForbes - Zak DoffmanAbout those internment camps in Xinjiang—the autonomous region in the west of China, where the minority Uighur Muslim population has been notoriously subjugated by the authorities. Apparently, those camps
Privilege still dominates our society – and there are so many cases from the bus to 10 Downing Streetinews.co.uk - Stefano Hatfield This is a time that challenges any “privilege” deniers to rethink lingering suspicion of the term. From the Trump children Instagramming their way …
Aide 'dismissed probe into 'inappropriate' conduct of Corbyn allydailymail.co.uk - Rory Tingle A senior Labour aide dismissed a sexual harassment complaint against a close Corbyn ally who texted a young staffer to tell her he was in his …
Hong Kong March: Vast Protest of Extradition Bill Shows Fear of Eroding FreedomsThe New York Times - By AUSTIN RAMZYHONG KONG — Hundreds of thousands of people filled the sweltering streets of Hong Kong on Sunday in an immense protest against a government plan to allow extraditions to mainland China that culminated
Brexit Party Campaign Head Fired for Ties to Fascist British National Partyhaaretz.com - Haaretz and Reuters A campaign coordinator for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party has exposed as a former activist for the far-right, fascist British National Party in a report …
