Why, you might ask, did very rich people fund Brexit? Answer: to be able to scrap EU regulation of their businesses. That’s all. They actually want the cheap Continental labour. On the other hand, the man in the street voted for Brexit to reduce immigration and get back his old job and what he thinks …
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A 2014 study by Pew Research in Washington DC showed that 40 per cent (!) of internet users have been harassed and 66 per cent of those said the most recent instance was on social media. Since then efforts to curb online harassment using human moderation have fallen flat. Bots can help with block lists, …
It was none other than Philip Morris — for years and years the largest food manufacturer in North America through its acquisition of General Foods and then Kraft — who, in 1999, warned them that they were going to face as much trouble over salt, sugar, fat, obesity as Philip Morrris was then facing over …
“I put lipstick on a pig. I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is…..I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to …
“Pre-Christian religions did concern themselves with morality. Egyptians believed over 4000 years ago that the soul would be judged. But prehistoric hunter-gatherer religions did not concern themselves with sexual morality, since for them the paternity of a child did not matter. “When people settled and men amassed goods and assets- – which they wanted to …
