Month: July 2020

JK Rowling and Salman Rushdie are among 152 writers and academics who have signed an open letter denouncing the so-called “cancel culture”. Those who signed the letter have said they “applaud” recent protests for racial justice and greater equality, but added a “reckoning” has weakened tolerance of different opinions in favour of “ideological conformity”. The
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak will spend £2bn funding hundreds of thousands of “work placements” to keep young people off the dole in his emergency economic update to MPs on Wednesday. Mr Sunak will put job creation and training schemes at the heart of the latest stage of the coronavirus recovery plan as the government begins to
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Tesla’s 2014 acquisition of SolarCity turned the electric vehicle manufacturer into the undisputed largest player in residential solar, but that lead has steadily eroded as its major competitor, Sunrun, surged ahead with more aggressive plans. Now with the $3.2 billion dollar acquisition of the residential solar installation company, Vivint Solar, Sunrun looks to solidify its
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10:31 AM ET The DraftKings All-American Team Cup, the first pro tennis event in the U.S. to take place before paying spectators, ended Sunday at a tennis and fitness center in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. It was rocked Friday night when Frances Tiafoe, the popular captain of the young “Stars” team, tested positive for the coronavirus,
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Campaigner Marie Lyon broke down in tears as she read the report. “At last!” she exclaimed.  After four decades of campaigning, she has achieved something extraordinary – recognition, finally, that she and hundreds of other families have been wronged. An independent review has found that children suffered “avoidable harm” from failure to regulate a drug
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