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...Freedom House, a US NGO, has downgraded the country from “free” in 2021 to “partly free” now while the Sweden-based V-Dem Institute considers India an “electoral autocracy”, alongside the likes of Russia...
...He has called for reform of the higher education system, such as making university tuition free or less expensive and reviewing loan-based scholarships that impose debt on the young....
...a Dancer” (1995): https://www.artforum.com/video/tracey-emin-why-i-never-became-a-dancer-1995-49262 –A free online exhibition of Emin's video works between 1995 and 2017 (Xavier Hufkens): https://www.xavierhufkens.com...
...Tuesday France, the new National Assembly holds its first session after the June 12 parliamentary election results created a hung parliament — read Martin Sandbu’s (premium) Free Lunch newsletter for a...
...“Today, speech itself is a crime, speech itself is sedition,” said Colin Gonsalves, a human rights lawyer. “The government takes speech, even non-violent speech, to be as lethal as an AK-47.”...
...Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte said in a speech on Monday evening that he had accepted an offer from Russia to supply his country with free Covid-19 vaccines once mass production began....
...But Hong Kong still has several big advantages over Shenzhen: free access to the internet, freedom of speech, the rule of law and free flow of capital....
...The largest business groups across the Atlantic have amplified the message, with the UK’s Institute of Directors calling for a more ambitious exploration of “new ways to combine the profit motive with social...
...He pointed to the president’s speech at the Sorbonne last year that contained nearly 50 ideas for reforming Europe, many of which have now been agreed....
...In its annual “Green Budget” assessment of the economy ahead of the chancellor’s statement, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Citi said that forecasts of economic pain, soon after the referendum, were...
...Under a restrictive new cyber security law, the government is trying to contain the US tech giants and the free speech they host, wary of the role social media has played in allowing citizens to organise...
...edge is critical for all of our prosperity.”...
...Others remained officially neutral, such as the Institute of Directors....
...From 2017, we will fund 30 hours of free childcare for working families with 3 and 4 year olds. We’ll support £10,000 of childcare costs tax-free....
...I’m thinking of calling it the Centre for the Less Good Idea, or the Institute for the Less Good Idea.”...
...Simon Walker, director-general, Institute of Directors Institute of Directors members are in good heart as we go into 2015....
...Dozens of older people in the crowd lift their right hands high with the V-for-victory symbol used during demonstrations of the Solidarity labour union 30 years ago....
...Senator John McCain’s essay on courage is particularly interesting - a ready-made stump speech for 2008?...
...In a speech given to the National Press Club in Washington last April, Robbins lectured the journalists (to their applause) that “any instance of intimidation to free speech should be battled against....
...I seem to have touched a nerve of considerable size, as the wall of objectivity behind which Miegel has hidden for most of our conversation, the value-free construct of his demographic and economic models...
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