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Eastern European economic upstart is in danger of overtaking low-productivity Britain

[Trigger warning: child sexual abuse] A conservative politician attacks a peer-reviewed research paper by a Humanities PhD student. Sounds terrible, doesn't it? Anti-free speech. Anti-academic freedom. A chilling atmosphere for researchers. But...

There was no defending that appalling "autoethnography" paper on masturbation. But a lot of academics defended it anyway

The prime minister has imperilled peace in Northern Ireland, and every day the economic fallout worsens An anti-Brexit protester holds a placard after Boris Johnson drove past to attend prime minister’s questions on Wednesday. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP An anti-Brexit protester holds a placard after Boris Johnson drove past to attend prime minister’s questions on Wednesday. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP Fri 30 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT Last modified on Fri 30 Apr 2021 09.32 EDT Amid slippages, ...

Forget curtains and cash – Johnson’s legacy will be the bitter taste of Brexit Polly Toynbee Replay Video (Video by Reuters) Editors note: The opinions in this article are the authors, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. Amid slippages, losses, vanishing investments and export drops, the drip, drip of Brexit damage never stops. I collect examples every week, as if picking up spent mortar rounds from a battlefield. On Wedne...

Brexit: Michel Barnier says new UK-EU border friction here to stay Michel Barnier said today that many things had “changed for good” when the UK left the EUs single market and customs union on 31 December (Getty Images) Much of the post-Brexit trade disruption and regulatory issues in the past two weeks will not be fixable, according to the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier. Barnier said today that many things “changed for good” when the UK left the EU’s ...