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DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

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In a World of White people, The Science of Racism uses clear scientific research to expose what we know about racism, exactly how we know it, and what we can do about it. Since 2000s, recruiters have suffered from unusual occupational hazard. Having received numerous applications for jobs they have advertised, they have consistently been hiring people who do not exist. Ghost applications with identical CVs, the only difference between the two is that one applicant is Black while the other is white. They fall victims of their own prejudices, as well as to what is by now, a well … Continue reading DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

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Language and curriculum have to be decolonised to deliver diversity, equality and inclusion.

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Why our universities, established as sanctuaries of truth and higher learning are broken and are failing a generation of young people. Consumed by funding and admission crisis, mired in political scandal and governed by self-interest, their founding principles have been corrupted. Matt Goodwin spent decades working as an academic in some of the world’s leading universities including professor of politics at the University of Kent, delivering underfunded courses to increasingly disengaged lecture theatres, sitting on rudderless committees, counselling depressed colleagues and concerned students, watching standards slip and academic integrity decline. He argues that diversity of opinion is under threat in … Continue reading Language and curriculum have to be decolonised to deliver diversity, equality and inclusion.

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Diagnosis of Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump – warns of a second Weimar-like era 

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In Waste Land, geopolitics veteran commentator, Robert Kaplan’s wide-angled vision of our chaotic, globalised world, where present crises resonate with past tyrannies, and assess the outlook for the 21st century, and reveals the society is  a hair’s breath away from the abyss. Donald Trump is taking office amid mini Trumps elsewhere, as steely autocrats steer Russia and China. We are entering a new era of global cataclysm, a deadly mix of war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement, and the end of empire. Kaplan explains incisively how we got here and where we are going. His trademark sweep of history, … Continue reading Diagnosis of Xi Jinping, Putin and Trump – warns of a second Weimar-like era 

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Taiwan caught between Chinese power and vagaries of US politics

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When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Kerry Brown on the small island caught between Chinese power and the vagaries of US politics, to find a solution to a problem, when they attempt it would most certainly lead to world war, the stalemate prevailed for the past 76 years. Taiwan is now a free, vibrant society, flourishing democracy and an economic success story, as one of … Continue reading Taiwan caught between Chinese power and vagaries of US politics

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Wealth Transfer

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The superrich wanted Great Wealth Transfer, by becoming philanthropist effectively means transfer of family wealth from the Baby Boomer generation to their children. Vanguard estimated that by 2030, around $10.6 trillion will have been transferred between generations in the United States, $.35 trillion in Europe, and $2.8 trillion in Asia. These are enormous figures, but globally, the private equity industry had $8.2 trillion of assets under management at the end of 2023. There is great wealth transfer happening every day that has contributed to this enormous accumulation of wealth: the monopolization of the economy.  Wealth transfer emerges from the pocketbooks … Continue reading Wealth Transfer

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“An empire within an empire”, Grandest society of merchants

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In 1800s British East India Company conquers India, and by the beginning of the 19th century, as one of its directors admitted “an empire within an empire”, with the power to make war or peace anywhere in the east having ruled India for 200 years. The East India Company created a sophisticated administration and civil service in India, and built much of London’s Docklands. Its annual spending in Britain £8.5m exceeded about a quarter of total British government annual expenditure. They successfully transferred India’s then prospering GDP to Britain. It is no wonder the Company now referred to itself as “the … Continue reading “An empire within an empire”, Grandest society of merchants

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Variation in prosperity and poverty

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The success and prosperity of a nation boils down to their institutions, legal fairness and political transparency. Most countries lack the sense of equality by having exclusionary policies designed to enrich the elites and exploit the poor majority, preventing technological innovation, but social tensions, the legacy form civil conflict, geography, corruption and policy failure, contribute to government weakness. Extractive economic institutions do not create incentives needed for people to save, Invest and innovate.  Higher productivity promotes faster economic growth, and faster growth allows a nation to escape poverty. Nobel prize-winning economist, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson makes meticulous enquiry … Continue reading Variation in prosperity and poverty

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Post Office spent over £132m of taxpayer money defending itself

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The Post Office has spent over £132m of taxpayer money ( £82m in the 12 mon ths to 31st March 2024, £38m the previous 12 months, and £12m in the year prior to that, defending itself at the inquiry into the wrongful conviction of 900 sub-postmasters who were prosecuted wrongly for shortfalls in their accounts caused by bugs in Fujitsu’s Horizon IT system in what has been described as one of the most widespread miscarriages in British legal history. Most sub-postmasters wrongly convicted lost their livelihoods or were forced to make up shortfalls from their own money, while some former sub-postmasters … Continue reading Post Office spent over £132m of taxpayer money defending itself

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Murder suspect charged

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Luigi Mangione the suspect arrested in connection with the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week as he walked to a shareholder’s meeting, appeared to be a potentially untraceable 3D gun- a firearm without serial numbers, that can be assembled at home, copied from Hollywood movie The Day of the Jackal. He was arrested on Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and was allegedly in possession of a gun, bullets, multiple fake IDs and cash. Law enforcement sources say ”Deny, Defend, Depose, the three D’s of insurance” tactics used by companies to reject payment claims … Continue reading Murder suspect charged

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Homebase collapses into administration

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Homebase owner Hilco who had been looking to sell the struggling retailer, was not successful in finding an outright buyer. Homebase in the meanwhile has collapsed into administration putting 2, 000 jobs at risk. Plymouth-based tycoon Chris Dawson’s The Range, owner of Homeware chain is buying 70 stores and the brand, safeguarding 1, 600 jobs. The remaining 49 stores and the head office, are in the hands of Teneo the administrator. Homebase CEO Damian McGloughlin said the past three years had been incredibly challenging for DIY stores. Restructuring specialist Hilco, which rescued music chain HMV in 2013 Homebase recently completed … Continue reading Homebase collapses into administration