Michael Clemens And that’s the Chinese Exclusion Act and the 1924 immigration shutdown slashed immigration to the United ...

He described hindrances such as “pre-meetings for the pre-meetings for the decision meetings” and “a longer line of managers” ...

WhatsApp to Stephen: What? And I thought I was the tough nut in this partnership. We are not going to go round to staff’s houses when they are off sick to check they are really ill. WhatsApp to ...

Between them, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris spent $3.5bn in the race for the presidency ( Report, November 6). Regardless of the outcome, can anyone rationally believe that was money well spent?

Congratulations to Sarah Flannery on her incisive letter (October 28) about Britain’s high speed rail project and the pipe dream of private funding of the line from Birmingham to Manchester. I ...

While we had a presidential election in the US on November 5 (the result of which I don’t know as I write this), I wonder whether what is going on in China might be more important. I thought much the ...

An art­icle on Novem­ber 6 repor­ted that Lukoil, the Rus­sian energy group, had writ­ten to the office of Rus­sian Pres­id­ent Vladi­mir Putin out­lining plans to sell its Bul­garian oil refinery to ...

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State the estimated number of people who lost their lives in the recent Spanish floods Identify two reasons why residents in Valencia were caught unprepared by the flash floods Explain the link ...

Increasing numbers of UK interiors brands are “peddling their wares” with a village-fete style verve – both broadening their ...

Premier League football clubs are targeting stadium upgrades to boost revenues as England’s top 20 teams aim to reap the benefits of rising ticket demand and reduce the reliance on income from ...

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