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Up to 40 Conservative MPs are to refuse unconscious bias training launched to tackle racism in the House of Commons, according to insiders.Accusing parliamentary authorities of “pandering” to the agenda of Black Lives Matter (BLM), MPs in the right-leaning European Research Group and “Common Sense Group” of MPs “said most…

China’s population may be in decline China is preparing to launch a seventh national census that will see the world’s most populous country attempt to count 1.3 billion people. According to state-run media, around seven million census workers will fan out across the country, collecting names, ID numbers, gender, marital…

Trump says he will nominate woman to replace Ginsburg Donald Trump says he will nominate a woman to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Although Trump's Democratic rival, Joe Biden, says the decision on the replacement should wait until after the White House election, the president says…

Features Julien Neaves Wednesday 16 September 2020A scene from the documentary I Don't Call It Ghetto. - TT documentary I Don't Call It Ghetto, Mortenol from Guadeloupe and Malpaso from the Dominican Republic were among the winners of the TT Film Festival 2020 awards. The winners were announced on Monday…

A shopper wearing a face mask carries an H&M branded shopping bag in Barcelona, Spain, in August. Photo: BloombergSwedish clothing giant ends relationship with yarn producer Huafu Fashion Company says it does not work with any garment factories in Xinjiang and will no longer source cotton from region Topic |   XinjiangPublished:…

Downing Street is reportedly planning to crack down on “frivolous” coronavirus tests as England’s ten worst Covid hotspots face a total dearth of testing supplies.An investigation by LBC Radio found that walk-in, drive through and home tests were all unavailable in the areas with the highest infection rates: Bolton, Salford, Bradford, Blackburn, Oldham,…

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Daniel Finkelstein in The Timeson a bad ally for BritainWhy Tories should hope that Trump loses“Donald Trump is not — he cannot be — the Conservative candidate in November’s presidential…

Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada, holds up some of the 31,000 letters as they call on Saudi Arabia to free Raif Badawi as protesters take part in a rally outside the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Ottawa on Monday, November 2, 2015. A prominent human rights organization…

In the third edition of the college-level textbook Macroeconomics, the economists Andrew Abel and future Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke blithely assert that “since the earliest times almost all societies … have used money.” They say that money arises from the inefficiency of barter—of trading one good for another—because “finding…