A list of 25 employers who failed to pay workers the minimum wage has been released by the UK government. They are the latest offenders to be “named and shamed” under rules that came into effect last October. Between them they owe more than £43,000 to staff and have been ordered to pay fines totalling …
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One of the political issues in Britain at the moment is the allegation that government education policy had led to the the axing of parts of schools’ curriculums, poor governance, homophobia, segregation of the sexes, a bar on sex education, and unsuitable religious speakers at assemblies. This is all about Islamism, mainly in Birmingham, and …
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Israel has been caught carrying out aggressive espionage operations against American targets for decades, according to U.S. intelligence officials and congressional sources. And they still do it. They just don’t get arrested very often. As Newsweek recently reported, American counter-intelligence officials told members of the House Judiciary and Foreign Affairs committees at the end of …
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Can-do, hard work, dedication are the cornerstones of the America myth of success. There is much hand-wringing about the decline of social mobility. But recent studies show that, the situation has not become worse in the last 30 or forty years. In fact, US social mobility has been relatively stable, and more rigid, than most …
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Last year the Russian tenants in the London apartment beneath us decamped without paying a single bill. For weeks we were returning invoices “gone away”. These people were working for a Russian billionaire with a mansion in Notting Hill. Britain now has 104 billionaires (up from 88 last year), according to The Sunday Times, and …
