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 ...

Good gut health has been identified as a cornerstone of physical and mental well-being. Here’s how a new generation of food ...

Companies conduct “evaluations” of AI models by teams of staff and outside researchers. These are standardised tests, known as benchmarks, that assess models’ abilities and the performance of ...

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

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 ...

‘Operating in the Stone Age’: NHS staff’s daily struggle with outdated tech on facebook (opens in a new window) ‘Operating in ...