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Baroness Warsi: ‘the party needs to get out of denial mode’
The Home Secretary has rejected calls for an inquiry into alleged anti-Muslim behaviour by Conservative politicians. Earlier this week the former party chair Baroness Warsi backed such calls saying the party had to act on Islamaphobia within its ranks. Her comments come as Tory councillor Stephen Ardley was suspended from the party, after it was…
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Poet Ben Okri on modern society
He has penned a eulogy to Grenfell Tower and – on Brexit – decried a world where it is “easier to fall apart than to stay together”. The lyrical poet and novelist Ben Okri has written passionately about citizenship too, describing Britain as a nation “forged by successive layers of immigration…each adding something new and…
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Senator Maggie Hassan: ‘Facebook business model isn’t set up to protect privacy’
After their hearing yesterday, we caught up with some of the key US senators involved – one from each party . Both seemed determined to give Mark Zuckerberg the benefit of the doubt and to let Facebook find its own solutions to the various crises engulfing it.
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A modern day Billy Elliot?
‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ is the British musical locked in a David versus several Goliaths battle this weekend at the Olivier Awards. Nominated for five awards despite a cast of unknowns and a story about an unknown, it is the real-life tale of a gay teenager who decided one day he wanted to wear a…
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Tate Modern’s Frances Morris on Kettle’s Yard
Frances Morris, director of Tate Modern, discusses the Kettle’s Yard show.
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Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
Channel 4 News’ full, fiery interview with clinical psychologist and professorJordan B Peterson, whose views on gender have amassed great controversy – and a huge online following. He discusses the pay gap, patriarchy and his new book “12 Rules for Life.”
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The Grenfell families spending Christmas in temporary accommodation
More than six months after the fire in Grenfell Tower, 17 families with children look set to spend this Christmas in a hotel room. The local council says it is working around the clock to offer accommodation to those affected by the fire, but despite them committing more than £200 million to secure hundreds of…
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Do the young see Meghan Markle as role model?
Britain’s newest royal couple had their first official joint engagement today. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were cheered by excited crowds on a visit to Nottingham, very much focused around the city’s diversity. So now that Ms Markle is to become the first mixed-race royal, do young people see her as an inspirational role model?
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Modern slavery increases in the UK
New figures from the Salvation Army show that cases of modern slavery in Britain have soared in recent years. The Salvation Army, which is contracted by the government to provide the support offered to victims of human trafficking, says the increase may be down to better monitoring – the UK now has a Modern Slavery…
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Anthony Steen: ‘The increase in modern slavery is inevitable’
MP Sarah Champion and Anthony Steen, Chairman of the Human Trafficking Foundation, talk about what the UK can do to combat slavery.
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11 gang-members convicted of modern slavery
Eleven gang-members linked to a traveller family have been convicted of enslaving homeless and disabled men in Lincolnshire. The court heard that the Rooney clan operated a modern slavery ring forcing victims to work for little or no pay and live in squalid conditions for up to 26 years.
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Neena Modi: Charlie Gard case ‘very public, very painful’
Neena Modi, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, discusses the breakdown in relations between Charlie Gard’s parents and staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern
Tate Modern’s latest exhibition, Soul of a Nation, opens in 1963 at the height of the civil rights movement in America. Through the work of more than 60 artists, it charts 20 years of the African-American struggle for acceptance and integration – the journey of Martin Luther King’s dream from hope to disillusion. But it…
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Chancellor in ‘listening mode’ over business rates
The Chancellor has tonight hinted that he is in ‘listening mode’ as Tory backbenchers expressed concerns over planned rises to business rates
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David Hamilton: former models allege the photographer sexually abused them
Last week, the celebrated British photographer David Hamilton was found dead in Paris, after taking his own life. A well known French broadcaster had publicly accused him of raping her when she was just 13. And that prompted many of Hamilton’s former models to allege that his crimes stretched back forty years.