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V Tokiu se konají XXXII. Letní olympijské hry. Sledujeme byznys okolo největší sportovní akce roku, dopady pandemie a také největší úspěchy českých sportovců.

čas čtení 8 minut Nesvatá aliance obchodu a politiky pokračuje v uskutečňování své autoritářské vize o demokracii bez demokracie Společnost PPF se opírá o širokou síť neformálních a oficiálních obchodních vztahů s autokraty v Evropě a ve světě PR PPF v čele s Vladimírem Mlynářem se tyto skutečnosti snaží systematicky bagatelizovat a zahalovat dezinformačním smogem Český pravicový diskurs dlouhodobě otevírá cestu k legitimizaci obchodních ...

It was the speech he was never allowed to give — but it encapsulated his political beliefs as an opponent of the unelected House of Lords. When Anthony Wedgwood Benn was forced to give up his seat in the House of Commons in 1960 on inheriting his father’s title, he urged the Speaker to let him address MPs on the need to eradicate hereditary peerage — his own especially. He was refused permission but the speech was later published in a book. ‘I am asking that the Stansgate peerage . . . ...

From the archive: the monuments of Thatcherism, as seen in 1989 The Iron Lady’s legacy included the Lloyd’s building and cardboard city, the collapse of the coal industry and the right-to-buy policy Presiding over a country run by ‘a pack of wolves’: Margaret Thatcher Presiding over a country run by ‘a pack of wolves’: Margaret Thatcher Sun 4 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT As Thatcherism was about to enter its second decade and the Channel Tunnel was being dug there were ‘still more striking ...

Skytoll e-tolling deal under scrutiny 10. February, 2021 Ljubljana – The parliamentary Public Finance Oversight Commission is to discuss the recent decision by the motorway company DARS to pick the Slovak company Skytoll to set up the country’s e-tolling system in the wake of reports that DARS tailored the tender for Skytoll. The decision will also be challenged by one of the rivals in the tender. The session was demanded last week by the opposition Alenka Bratušek Party (SAB), a move to w...

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Last modified on Tue 15 Dec 2020 13.52 EST ‘Sex in the 90s’ was the cover tease for the Observer Magazine of 29 November 1987, when Suzanne Lowry’s short story synthesised some of the contemporary fears about Aids. It was ‘a fantasy about the meritocratic middle classes… a cautionary tale to show what could happen to them, caught between the old selfish libertarianism and the new hypocritical conformism’. Reflecting that ‘the time between the introduction of the pill and the emer...